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- “The earth is what we all have in common.” Wendell Berry
- “In wilderness is the preservation of the world.” Henry David Thoreau
- “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” Native American Proverb
- “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” John Muir
- “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfully committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead
- “The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.” Barry Commoner
- “He that plants trees loves others beside himself.” Thomas Fuller
- “There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more.” Gaylord Nelson
- “For 200 years we’ve been conquering nature. Now we’re beating it to death.” Tom McMillan
- “What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?” Henry David Thoreau
- “Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.” Bill Vaughan
- “The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity… that’s all there is. That’s the whole economy. That’s where all the economic activity and jobs come from. These biological systems are the sustaining wealth of the world.” Gaylord Nelson
- “Until a man duplicates a blade of grass, Nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favorable comparison with the products of Nature, the living cell of a plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.” Thomas Alva Edison
- “To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.” William Blake”
- There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more.” George Gordon, Lord Byron
- “And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.” William Shakespeare
- “Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.” Cree Indian Proverb
- “Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet, and the winds long to play with your hair.” Kahlil Gibran
- “The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.” Lady Bird Johnson
- “Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.” John Muir
- “A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.” John James Audubon
- “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each.” Henry David Thoreau
- “We need the tonic of wildness—to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground. At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” Henry David Thoreau
- “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” John Muir
- “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” Albert Einstein
- “The good man is the friend of all living things.” Gandhi
- “An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.” David Attenborough
- “It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.” David Attenborough
- “Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children’s children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.” Theodore Roosevelt
- “A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together … all things connect.” Chief Seattle
- “I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.” Mother Teresa
- “Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option…they will become a necessity.” Fujio Cho, President of Toyota Motors
- “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” Jane Goodall
- “The Earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of its diseases is called man.” Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher
- “All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet. It must be this voice that is telling me to do something, and I am sure it’s the same voice that is speaking to everybody on this planet – at least everybody who seems to be concerned about the fate of the world, the fate of this planet.” Wangari Maathai Noble Peace prize winner, founder Green Belt movement in Kenya.
- “I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn.” A Chieftain from Nigeria
- “Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.” Francis Bacon
- “I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.” Frank Lloyd Wright
- “Everything is connected. Connectivity is going to be the key to addressing these issues, like contaminants and climate change. They’re not just about contaminants on your plate. They’re not just about the ice depleting. They’re about the issue of humanity. What we do every day — whether you live in Mexico, the United States, Russia, China … can have a very negative impact on an entire way of life for an entire people far away from that source.” Sheila Watt-Cloutier
- “Strange is our situation here upon earth.” Albert Einstein
- “There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.” Marshall McLuhan Communications theorist, educator, philosopher
- “There would be very little point in my exhausting myself and other conservationist themselves in trying to protect animals and habitats if we weren’t at the same time raising young people to be better stewards.” Dr. Jane Goodall
- “Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain’s majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.” George Carlin Comedian
- “As crude a weapon as the cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.” Rachel Carson
- “Until a man duplicates a blade of grass, Nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favorable comparison with the products of Nature, the living cell of a plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.” Thomas Alva Edison
- “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” Native American Proverb
- “I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today. I believe in what I do beyond a shadow of a doubt.I gave my word to this tree and to all the people that my feet would not touch the ground until I had done everything in my power to make the world aware of this problem and to stop the destruction.” Julia Butterfly Hill Environmentalist who spent 738 days living in a tree in order to save the old growth forests
- “If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.”Henry David Thoreau
- “There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.” Jane Jacobs
- “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.” Mahatma Gandhi
- “As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.” Margaret Laurence
- “You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.” Hal Borland
- “I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.” John Muir