Environmental Quotes

1118 Environmental quotes by 683 unique authors

Ancient rock paintings remind us that there are no unclaimed lands, that people have always lived here. They are wayposts along the river journey to… — Lynn Culbreath Noel
It's hard to see a river all at once, especially in the mountains. Down on the plains, rivers run in their course as straightforward as… — Lynn Culbreath Noel
The ancient Irish bards knew the Salmon of Knowledge as the giver of all life's wisdom. In the salmon's leap of understanding like a leap… — Lynn Culbreath Noel
We are deep at the bottom of this river of time, caught up in the current of the moment where all the rivers rendezvous. — Lynn Culbreath Noel
As long as there are young men with the light of adventure in their eyes or a touch of wilderness in their souls, rapids will… — Sigurd F. Olson
Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go. — Blaise Pascal
To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something else. When the… — David Quammen
Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush to elsewhere, fed… — Tom Robbins
There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets… — Robert Louis Stevenson
It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went. — Henry David Thoreau
The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood… — Henry David Thoreau
After the doctor's departure Koznyshev felt inclined to go to the river with his fishing rod. He was fond of angling, and seemed proud of… — Leo Tolstoy
In the 19th century, we devoted our best minds to exploring nature. In the 20th century, we devoted ourselves to controlling and harnessing it. In… — Stephen Ambrose
If I live to be old enough, I may sit down under some bush, the last left in the utilitarian world, and feel thankful that… — Thomas Cole
In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial. — Aldo Leopold
We realize the indivisibility of the earth-its soil, mountains, rivers, forests, climate, plants, and animals-and respect it collectively not only as a useful servant but… — Aldo Leopold
Thus far we have considered the problem of conservation of land purely as an economic issue. A false front of exclusively economic determinism is so… — Aldo Leopold
We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be… — Aldo Leopold
Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal… — Barry Lopez
While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all. — Paul Newman
The pineal gland of evolutionarily older animals, such as lizards and amphibians, is also called the 'third' eye. Just like the two seeing eyes, the… — Rick Strassman
Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century. — John Doerr
The recent upsurge of public concern over environmental questions reflects a belated recognition that man has been too cavalier in his relations with nature. Unless… — Richard M. Nixon
Research suggests that exposure to the natural world - including nearby nature in cities - helps improve human health, well-being, and intellectual capacity in ways… — Richard Louv
Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy. — Richard Louv

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