A few days ago Tan Casipo said to me, 'Some people come here with so much dust in their eyes it's unbearable… — Tim Ward Copy Share Image
We don't even know what species are out there, for the most part, particularly when you get down to the microbes and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The very people who shudder over the cruelty of the hunter are apt to forget that slaughter, in the grimmest sense of… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
When your tongue is silent, you can rest in the silence of the forest. When your imagination is silent, the forest speaks… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
I do a lot of walking around in game parks, rain forests, places like that, but it's not like I'm camping in… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
As Ray Bradbury - a longtime contributor to Playboy - said a long time ago, a lot of people, when they're talking… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Decrying the mismanagement that led to the summer's catastrophic wildfires: The Clinton administration didn't cause these fires, but their policies have left… — Marc Racicot Copy Share Image
The fleeting hour of life of those who love the hills is quickly spent, but the hills are eternal. Always there will… — Alfred Wainwright Copy Share Image
Many a play is like a painted backdrop, something to be looked at from the front. An Ibsen play is like a… — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
The vision seemed to enter the house with me-the stretcher, the phantom-bearers, the wild crowd of obedient worshippers, the gloom of the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
He had had a severe shock some weeks earlier, when, having narrowly failed to capture a large grey-brown hare for his dinner,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For if Jack Buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
I love looking at you, hundred-year-old tree, loaded with shoots and boughs as though you were a stripling. Teach me the secret… — Hélder Câmara Copy Share Image
I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in… — Dorothy Stang Copy Share Image
I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
In calling society an ecological system we are not merely using an analogy; society is an example of the general concept of… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
When I was five, a tree was my best friend. An old peppercorn on Grandpa's little farm. I'd haul myself into its… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
To the lost man, to the pioneer penetrating a new country, to the naturalist who wishes to see the wild land at… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
Sin is more dangerous than wild bears, more deadly than blazing forest fires. Ask Nebuchadnezzar, who lost his mind because he refused… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
We recently had a referendum in New York about extending the forest preserve. The city voted for it by a large majority;… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Ye say they all have passed away, That noble race and brave; That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
Watch nature, because it is your greatest teacher. It moves and flows and moves on again. There is an incredible beauty out… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
We face the gravest threat that civilization has ever confronted. It's global in nature and requires a global solution. Increased CO2 emissions… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I'm particularly struck by the neo-socialist concern for the well-being of plants, animals, lakes and rivers, rain forests and deserts - particularly… — Robert Sirico Copy Share Image
The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak,… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. If some of our great decorated trees had been grown in a… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out,… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
Air pollution is a threat to health, especially of older persons. It contributes significantly to the rising rates of chronic respiratory ailments.… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Our national conservation effort must include the complete spectrum of resources: air, water, and land; fuels, energy, and minerals; soils, forests, and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“An English wood is like a good many other things in life-- very promising at a distance, but a hollow mockery when… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Before you rip off three feet of toilet paper, consider that each year 500,000 acres of virgin boreal forest in northern Alberta… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
I fell in love with my country - its rivers, prairies, forests, mountains, cities and people. No one can take my love… — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Copy Share Image
“If the global temperature rises by only four degrees Celsius over the next fifty years—and it’s probably going to do that—then all… — Ned Hayes Copy Share Image
