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Environment Quotes by Aldo Leopold
- Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high opinion of himself,…
- A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans.
- The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts
- The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing…
- There are idle spots on every farm, and every highway is bordered by an idle strip as long as it is; keep cow, plow, and…
- 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…
- Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
- 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.
- Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
- One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.
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- An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. — David Attenborough
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
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- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon
- As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved… — Diane Ackerman
- Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. — Richard Bach
- Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. — Francis Bacon
- We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. — Francis Bacon