The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory. — Rene Dubos 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
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth. — Ian McHarg Copy Share Image
Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity. — Eric Knight 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
Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away. — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
The desire to build a risk-free society has always been a sign of decadence. It has meant that the nation has given… — Henry Fairlie 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
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
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. — Rene Dubos 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
God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird… — Frank N. Ikard Copy Share Image
As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we… — U Thant Copy Share Image
Living in the midst of abundance we have the greatest difficulty in seeing that the supply of natural wealth is limited and… — Wallace Carothers 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
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
It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will… — Bernard DeVoto 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
The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children — Paul R. Ehrlich 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
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
Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment. — Richard G. Wilkinson 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
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
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