Environment Quotes

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If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers. — Joseph Wood Krutch
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either. — Joseph Wood Krutch
The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions. — Madeleine M. Kunin
Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job… — Talib Kweli
I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment. — Aung San Suu Kyi
Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is… — Camilla Lackberg
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. — Lucy Larcom
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment. — D. H. Lawrence
I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to. — Ang Lee
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we… — Aldo Leopold
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. — Aldo Leopold
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. — Aldo Leopold
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. — Aldo Leopold
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions. — Max Lerner
Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels,… — Dan Lipinski
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. — Charles Lindbergh
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. — Charles Lindbergh
I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual… — Bjorn Lomborg
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. — John Locke
Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive. — James Lovelock

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