Environmental Quotes

1118 Environmental quotes by 683 unique authors

Within the various acts of the ecodrama should be included scenes in which men's and women's roles come to center stage and scenes in which… — Carolyn Merchant
Environmental history... refer[s] to the past contact of man with his total habitat. . . . The environmental historian like the ecologist [s]hould think in… — Roderick Nash
Environmental history fit[s] into the framework of New Left history. [It is] history "from the bottom up," except that here the exploited element [is] the… — Roderick Nash
Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they… — Edward Abbey
To have some parts flowing free again . . . with deer grazing on its banks . . . ducks and geese raising their young… — Stephen Ambrose
Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and… — Wendell Berry
There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river. — David R. Brower
You don't need it, but will you take some advice from a Californian who's been around for a while? Cherish these rivers. Witness for them.… — David R. Brower
Keep your rivers flowing as they will, and you will continue to know the most important of all freedoms-the boundless scope of the human mind… — David R. Brower
Let the mountains talk, let the river run. Once more, and forever. — David R. Brower
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . . — Robert Burns
A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it. — George William Curtis
The stream sings a subdued music, a scarcely audible lilt, faint and fluid syllables not quite said. It slips away into its future, where it… — John Daniel
We don't tend to ask where a lake comes from. It lies before us, contained and complete, tantalizing in its depth but not its origin.… — John Daniel
We are never far from the lilt and swirl of living water. Whether to fish or swim or paddle, of only to stand and gaze,… — John Daniel
The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river; in the end it is no longer the… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's a river somewhere that flows through the lives of everyone. — Roberta Flack
We grow up hearing so often that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points that we end up thinking it is also… — Thomas W. Horton
An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and too often they… — Lyndon B. Johnson
. . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty… — Lyndon B. Johnson
. . . perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in singing waters .… — Aldo Leopold
I sat there and forgot and forgot, until what remained was the river that went by and I who watched. On the river the heat… — Norman Maclean
We sat on the bank and the river went by. As always, it was making sounds to itself, and now it made sounds to us.… — Norman Maclean
Can we afford clean water? Can we afford rivers and lakes and streams and oceans which continue to make possible life on this planet? Can… — Edmund Muskie

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