Environmental Quote by John Muir

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no…

— John Muir

Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you.

— John Muir

God cannot save them from fools.

— John Muir

Perhaps the profession of doing good may be full, but every body should be kind at least to himself. Take a course of good…

— John Muir

“It is a country to breed mystical people, egocentric people, perhaps poetic people. But not humble ones…Puny you may feel there, and vulnerable, but…

— Wallace Stegner

“During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries a practical knowledge of the construction of small lakes was part of the equipment of most countrymen. Many…

— Elisabeth Beazley

Environmental history fit[s] into the framework of New Left history. [It is] history "from the bottom up," except that here the exploited element [is]…

— Roderick Nash

Environmental history was . . . born out of a moral purpose, with strong political commitments behind it, but also became, as it matured,…

— Donald Worster

We may be entering a new phase of history, a time when we begin to rediscover . . . the traditional teaching that power…

— Donald Worster

“By what peculiar twist of perception, I wondered, had I managed to see the plowed fields and second-growth forests of southern Wisconsin—a landscape of…

— William Cronon

“In the 1940s dams were synonymous with progress, and the rivers were to be conquered with the fervour of a pioneer wielding an axe.”

— Tim Palmer

For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes,…

— Jared Diamond