Environmental Quotes
1118 Environmental quotes by 683 unique authors
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There's not a plant or flower below but makes Thy glories known, And clouds arise, and tempests blow by order from Thy throne; While all…
— Isaac Watts
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We are altering the most basic forces of the planet's surface - the content of the sunlight, the temperature and aridity - and that brings…
— Bill McKibben
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We are not talking about esthetics. We are talking about life: survival of Man. We must train young people to get another vision of Nature.…
— Thor Heyerdahl
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We have to take care about nature as much as nature is taking care about us. Nature is very kind with us. And if you…
— Shimon Peres
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What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And…
— George Santayana
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The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to make sure that…
— Barack Obama
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At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a…
— Willie Nelson
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Our body's natural detoxification system is designed to support our health by eliminating waste products from our metabolism and from environmental toxins. Like any other…
— Mark Hyman, M.D.
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The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
— Charles Darwin
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Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence…
— E. O. Wilson
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Birds are extremely valued as indicators of overall environmental health. If there's a problem in a wild bird population, it's indicative that something went wrong.
— Jim Elliot
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Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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As we've seen the rise of cultural, environmental and educational tourism in adventure travel, we've also seen the rise of female participation. Part of that…
— Christopher Doyle
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The environmental assessment should give us the answers to all the issues that have been raised: potential lead migration, endangered species, noise abatement and proper…
— Steven Hall
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There are a lot of problems in the world, a lot of tragic things that have to be addressed, economic, medical, political, all kinds of…
— Dean Stockwell
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Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it. You can only mar it. The ages have been at work on it and…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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In a country where nature has been so lavish and where we have been so spendthrift of indigenous beauty, to set aside a few rivers…
— Frank Church
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The affluent society has built well in terms of economic progress, but has neglected the protection of the very water we drink as well as…
— Frank Church
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Beside the grand history of the glaciers and their own, the mountain streams sing the history of every avalanche or earthquake and of snow, all…
— John Muir
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Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.
— Rachel Carson
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We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man…
— Rachel Carson
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All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on the sea or…
— John Muir
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While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
— John Muir
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None may wholly escape the good of Nature, however imperfectly exposed to her blessings. The minister will not preach a perfectly flat and sedimentary sermon…
— John Muir
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Perhaps the profession of doing good may be full, but every body should be kind at least to himself. Take a course of good water…
— John Muir
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