Environmental Quotes

1118 Environmental quotes by 683 unique authors

Environmentalism is not an upper-income issue, it's not a white issue, it's not a black issue, it's not a South or a North or an… — Barack Obama
Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves. — Jakob Bohme
For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that… — Paul the Apostle
From the creation learn to admire thy Lord! And if any of the things thou see exceed thy comprehension, and thou are not able to… — Saint John Chrysostom
How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page. — Joseph Hall
How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated… — Charles Darwin
If it were not for the outside world, we would have no inside world to understand things by. Least of all could we understand God… — George MacDonald
If you do not see yourselves and all things as living, moving, and having their being in God, you see nothing, whatever you may think… — Richard Baxter
In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters, beasts, and the… — C.S. Lewis
In relation to the earth we have been autistic for centuries. Only now have we begun to listen with some attention and with a willingness… — Thomas Berry
Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish. — Thomas Carlyle
The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures,… — Walt Whitman
Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds,… — Euripides
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of… — Walt Whitman
If humans are to fully attain their destinies, so far as earthly development permits this; if they are to become truly whole, unbroken units, they… — Friedrich Frobel
In an ecological perspective, in other words, there are few accidents or anomalies, only outcomes based on system structure and dynamics. Climate change and glittering… — David W. Orr
In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work. — Evelyn Underhill
Is it not easy to conceive the World in your Mind? To think the Heavens fair? The Sun Glorious? The Earth fruitful? The Air Pleasant?… — Thomas Traherne
It is not really necessary to destroy nature in order to gain God's favor or even his undivided attention. — Ian McHarg
It is only logical that the pauperization of our soul and the soul of society coincide with the pauperization of the environment. One is the… — Paolo Soleri
It is simply that in all life on earth as in all good agriculture there are no short-cuts that by-pass Nature and the nature of… — Louis Bromfield
It is through our technology that we have been able to fly far away from earth to learn, in truth, how precious it is. It… — Dixie Lee Ray
It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it. — Edward Abbey
Life and the environment are one thing, not two, and people, as all life, are immersed in the one system. When we influence nature, we… — Daniel Botkin
Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive the mystery of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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