Environment Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The whole of nature cries out at our mistreatment of her. If the planet were a patient, we would have treated her long ago.

— Prince Charles

Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.

— Charles Dudley Warner

And yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.

— Gertrude Atherton

When nature gave us tears, She gave us leave to weep.

— Benjamin Franklin

Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

— Victor Hugo

Nature is a catchment of sorrows.

— Maxine Kumin

Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.

— Eric Hoffer

Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

— Ambrose Bierce

Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal.

— Immanuel Kant

“Nature is only terrible or squalid to those who do not understand her, and when misunderstanding has upset her balance. She is imbued above…

— LORD NORTHBOURNE

Nature confesses that she has bestowed on the human race hearts of softest mould, in that she has given us tears.

— Juvenal