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  • Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

    Business Week, June 18, 1990.
  • We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.

    "If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 2013.
  • The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask.

    Nature   Men   Answers  
  • Birds needs trees and mankind needs both of them! Protecting the nature and environment is not only a matter of ethics but also a matter of existence.

    Bird   Tree   Needs  
  • Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

    Quoted in Reader's Digest, Jan. 1970
  • Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.

    Nature   Men   Lakes  
  • How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

    John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.351, Library of America
  • Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

    George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.226, 谷月社
  • Wilderness is an anchor to windward. Knowing it is there, we can also know that we are still a rich nation, tending our resources as we should - not a people in despair searching every last nook and cranny of our land for a board of lumber, a barrel of oil, a blade of grass, or a tank of water.

    Oil   Knowing   Anchors  
  • The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

  • Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

    Love   Nature   Art  
    Jimmy Carter (1994). “An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections”, p.10, University of Arkansas Press
  • We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

    Attributed in A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations, ed. Barbara K. Rodes and Rice Odell (1992)
  • The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.

    Nature   Men   Garden  
  • It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

    "Playboy Interview: Ansel Adams". Interview with David Sheff, Playboy (p. 226), May 1, 1983.
  • Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right to live on?

  • Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press
  • The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

    Dirty   Men   Rivers  
  • In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

    "The Wisdom of Wilderness". Life magazine, December 22, 1967.
  • When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.

    Rain   Rivers   Water  
    Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.53, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
  • You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

    Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”
  • Your 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 Interview: Toward A Rational Use of Energy". Interview With Richard Freudenberger, www.motherearthnews.com. September/October 1981.
  • Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

    William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.337
  • The earth has music for those who listen.

  • The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.

    Men   Society   Outrun  
    Richard Isadore Evans, Carl Gustav Jung, Ernest Jones (1964). “Conversations with Carl [Gustav] Jung and reactions from Ernest Jones”, Princeton, N.J., Van Nostrand
  • All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth.

    Chief Seattle, “This we know”
  • God cannot save them from fools.

    Tree   Avalanches   Fool  
  • Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

  • If it's unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature

  • Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

    Life   Strength   Beauty  
    John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.814, Library of America
  • Our children may save us if they are taught to care properly for the planet; but if not, it may be back to the Ice Age or the caves from where we first emerged. Then we'll have to view the universe above from a cold, dark place. No more jet skis, nuclear weapons, plastic crap, broken pay phones, drugs, cars, waffle irons, or television. Come to think of it, that might not be a bad idea.

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