Environment Quotes
3400 quotes by 2230 authors
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Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals,…
— Charles Darwin
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Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.
— John Milton
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When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone,…
— Henry Beston
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One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.
— Mark Twain
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Nature, machine-like, works definitely and heartlessly, if in the main beautifully. Hence, if we, as individuals, do not make this dream of a god or…
— Theodore Dreiser
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Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings as now…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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How many beautiful trees gave their lives that today's scandal should, without delay, reach a million readers.
— Edwin Way Teale
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Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.
— Eric Hoffer
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Orange is the color of the sun. It is vital and a good color generally, indicating thoughtfulness and consideration of others.
— Edgar Cayce
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Some folks believe that global warming doesn't exist and that the environment doesn't need any help. I tend not to listen to them.
— Robert Wagner
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OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets.
— Ambrose Bierce
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For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it was her trip abroad: she…
— Jung Chang
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If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments.
— Marc Newson
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The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.
— Stephanie Mills
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If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.
— Satish Kumar
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If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down.
— Jack Handey
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