Environment Quotes

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You have to hold yourself accountable for your actions, and that's how we're going to protect the Earth. — Julia Hill
Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we… — Paul McCartney
No issue is more compelling than the air we breathe, be it hot or cold, be it hawk or human. — Jack Nicholson
It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is… — Margaret Mead
The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity. — Jean Houston
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing… — Marya Mannes
Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature. — Dennis Gabor
When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to… — Mahatma Gandhi
Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. — Rene Dubos
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now… — Anton Chekhov
A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for… — E F Schumacher
Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place. — Rene Dubos
We can never have enough of Nature. — Henry David Thoreau
The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally. — Dalai Lama
I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait til oil and… — Thomas A. Edison
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge. — Thomas A. Edison
I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior. — Oren Lyons
Live simply that others might simply live. — Mahatma Gandhi
Simply the thing that I am shall make me live. — William Shakespeare

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