Environmental Quote by Henry David Thoreau Download Open image “We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.” — Henry David Thoreau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Environmental Inspirational Love Railroads
People who haven't ridden in trains don't know what they're missing. It's not like an airplane. You get to see the countryside, the beautiful… — Ken Kelly Copy Share Image
“If some have the pleasure of riding on a rail, others have the misfortune to be ridden upon.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Some people are born to trains, and some have trains thrust upon them. Fortunately, I can be included in this latter category. — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“-How long you been with the rail road now? -Twenty-seven years. Now, I'll tell you something about the railroad. What I done learned after… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
There isn't a train I wouldn't take, no matter where it's going. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Don't be like a train; don't travel on the same path! Thousands of different paths are waiting for you to walk! Don't be like… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
A sentence has meaning in the sense that a train has a track, not that a train has a passenger. — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
People's lives are in the care of the railways when they get on a train. The railways should remember that. — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
“It is hard to make railroading pleasant in any country. It is too tedious.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I dont understand how people get hit by trains. Its not like a train can leave the rail. — Justin Mccloskey Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, experiencing amazing things, and I… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues. — Judith Rodin Copy Share Image
The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
Canada is the worst polluter in the world right now. There's absolutely no sign on a federal level that there's going to be any… — Owen Pallett Copy Share Image
Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is natures red-light warning against the model of… — Li Keqiang Copy Share Image
It is important to allow a broad debate on energy and climate. We must urgently explore realistic ways to address the different scientific, technical… — Lennart Bengtsson Copy Share Image
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented. — Dixie Lee Ray Copy Share Image
