When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act,… — William Ruckelshaus Copy Share Image
You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth. — Ian McHarg Copy Share Image
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out. — Horace Copy Share Image
The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake.... During… — William Rathje Copy Share Image
Our children may save us if they are taught to care properly for the planet; but if not, it may be back… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch… — Paul MacCready Copy Share Image
The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard. — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity. — Eric Knight Copy Share Image
We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence… — Lynn Townsend White, Jr Copy Share Image
The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century. — Philip Shabecoff Copy Share Image
The exquisite sight, sound, and smell of wilderness is many times more powerful if it is earned through physical achievement, if it… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
The earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
