Environment Quotes

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The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences — Frank Herbert
Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price — Ansel Adams
The environment is not as 'cheap as chips', it's priceless and we all have a part to play in protecting it — David Dickinson
But while nature has considerable resilience, there is a limit to how far that resilience can be stretched. No one knows how close to the… — Douglas Adams
Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues — Jim Hightower
Our relationship with Nature... best way of forging this relationship... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth — Satish Kumar
America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking… — Stewart Udall
We need the tonic of wildness and...nature. — Henry David Thoreau
Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object. — Henry Fuseli
The exact sciences also start from the assumption that in the end it will always be possible to understand nature, even in every new field… — Werner Heisenberg
Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos. — Eric Mackay
Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels. — Luigi Pirandello
Good questions outrank easy answers. — Paul Samuelson
Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain. — Seneca the Younger
The World we all share is given to us in trust. Every choice we make regarding the earth, air, and water around us should be… — August Busch III
Our house is burning down and we are blind to it. The earth and humankind are in danger and we are all responsible. It is… — Jacques Chirac
Who can deny that the environment has been destroyed? — Gunter Grass
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues - self-restraint. — Edwin Way Teale
We subsidize the disposal of waste in all its myriad forms from landfills to Superfund cleanups, from deep-well injection to storage of nuclear waste. In… — Paul Hawken
My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a… — W. P. Kinsella

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