"A town is saved, not more by the……" — Henry David Thoreau
"A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it."
More Environment Quotes
- The simplest things are often the truest. — Richard Bach
- We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are… — M H Abrams
- An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but… — David Attenborough
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual… — David Attenborough
- You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's… — David Attenborough
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from… — John James Audubon
- As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms… — Diane Ackerman
- Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. — Richard Bach
- Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. — Francis Bacon
- We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. — Francis Bacon