quotations about environment
What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.
MAHATMA GANDHI
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attributed, Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests
The Earth is what we all have in common.
WENDELL BERRY
The Art of the Commonplace
With the greenhouse in effect our environment was wrecked
Now I can only laugh as I read our epitaph
We end our lives as moles in the dark of the dawn patrol
MEGADETH
"Dawn Patrol", Rust in Peace
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.
WALLACE STEGNER
The Sound of Mountain Water
Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom and lakes die.
GIL STERN
attributed, The Harper Book of Quotations
Coming from New York, I know that if you go by a delicatessen, and you put a sweet cucumber in the vinegar barrel, the cucumber might say, "No, I want to retain my sweetness." But it's hopeless. The barrel will turn the sweet cucumber into a pickle. You can't be a sweet cucumber in a vinegar barrel.
PHILIP ZIMBARDO
"You Can't be a Sweet Cucumber in a Vinegar Barrel: A Talk with Philip Zimbardo", Jan. 19, 2005
Is a park any better than a coal mine? What's a mountain got that a slag pile hasn't? What would you rather have in your garden--an almond tree or an oil well?
JEAN GIRAUDOUX
The Madwoman of Chaillot
A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires. But a weak man is the victim of outside influences.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
Progressive Business Man
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Meditations
The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
GAYLORD NELSON
"Ah, Wilderness! Save It", The New York Times, September 4, 1984
I'm a product of my environment
My vocabulary's like licking the gutter
CIRCLE JERKS
"Product of My Environment"
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Familiar Letters
If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn; and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.
VIOLA SPOLIN
Improvisation for the Theater
The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers -- and thermonuclear weapons.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE
foreword, Collected Stories
The hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.
JOHN MUIR
My First Summer in the Sierra
The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature--nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT
attributed, The Greatest Quotations of All Time
The truly healthy environment is not merely safe but stimulating.
WILLIAM H. STEWART
Environmental Science and Technology
We cannot permit the environmental movement to shut down the United States. We cannot shut down the lives of many Americans by going to the extreme on the environment.
GEORGE BUSH
campaign rally, May 30, 1992
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
ALDO LEOPOLD
A Sand County Almanac
It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
OSCAR WILDE
De Profundis