Environment Quote by Erasmus Darwin

For as soon as the procreative faculty is thwarted and the number of births diminished, the natural struggle for existence which allows only healthy…

— Adolf Hitler

“You are a fertile God. Many seeds are dropped into the soil. Many do not sprout. Yet beneath the appearance of waste nothing is…

— Michael D. O'Brien

The generation of mankind is like the generation of leaves. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the living tree burgeons with…

— Homer

Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assuduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in the vigor…

— Washington Irving

“Surely it is obvious enough, if one looks at the whole world, that it is becoming daily better cultivated and more fully peopled than…

— Tertullian

Hordes of people [are] born, who live, yet who have done absolutely nothing to advance the race one iota. Their lives are hopeless repetitions……

— Margaret Sanger

“The produce of the soil maintains at all times nearly that number of inhabitants which it is capable of maintaining. The rich only select…

— Adam Smith

Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“In the checkered area of human experience the seasons are all mingled as in the golden age: fruit and blossom hang together; in the…

— George Eliot

“The tree blossoms, and bears its fruit, which falls, rots, withers, and even the seed is lost! Go, count the rings of the oak…

— James Fenimore Cooper

Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

— Julius Sterling Morton

“Trees endure the hot sun and rainstorms by sending their roots down deeper. The adversity they face is eventually the source of great stability.…

— John Bevere