Environment Quotes, Sayings about our environment
+20We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
- Anonymous
+18Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.
- Anonymous
+16Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
- Anonymous
+14The environment is everything that isn’t me.
- Anonymous
+14The U.S. government was the first to start an automobile junkyard on the Moon.
- Anonymous
+14Modern technology…..Owes ecology….An apology.
- Anonymous
+10Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.
- Anonymous
+4We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
- Anonymous
+3Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
- Albert Schweitzer
+3So bleak is the picture that the bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.
- Philip Shabecoff
+2We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
+2When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.
- David Orr
+2They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.
- James G. Watt
+2We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
- Thomas Fuller
+2It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
- Ansel Adams
+2Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.
- Ian McHarg
+1We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon
+1Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.
- John Clapham
+1Civilization… wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
- Richard Bach
+1Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
- William Ruckelshaus
+1Because we don’t think about future generations, they will never forget us.
- Henrik Tikkanen
+1You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
+1Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time.
- Baltimore Grotto
+1We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
- Native American
+1Opie, you haven’t finished your milk. We can’t put it back in the cow, you know.
- Aunt Bee Taylor
+1Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
- David Gerrold
+1The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
- Ralph Nader
+1When a man says to me, “I have the intensest love of nature,” at once I know that he has none.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.
- Michel Montaigne
+1The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
- Ross Perot
+1Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?
- Pierre Troubetzkoy
+1Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible or even sinful that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!
- Paul MacCready
+1The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
- Havelock Ellis
+1The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
- Marya Mannes
-1I am the earth. You are the earth. The Earth is dying. You and I are murderers.
- Ymber Delecto
