Beach Quote by Marya Mannes

We develop our beautiful planet in such a way that we brush aside the species... we risk creating a wasteland, where our aspirations will…

— Queen Noor of Jordan

We have been the most prodigal of people with land, and for years we wasted it with impunity. There was so much of it,…

— William H. Whyte

It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land…

— Yasmina Khadra

Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting…

— Robert M. Pirsig

The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation's concerns now is not only for man's enjoyment-but for man's survival.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The time has come when we cannot be so careless. Unless we do better, we may suffer through a stark emergency of the environment.…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“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

“The world is so waste and empty, when we figure only towns and hills and rivers in it; but to know of some one…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Even though we may all become extinct, we can still leave our footprint in the sand.

— Dr. Seuss

“Without stories of progress, the world has become a terrifying place. The ruin glares at us with the horror of its abandonment. It’s not…

— Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... so that never again…

— Wallace Stegner

Unlike the urban development that I see taking over and swallowing up our precious soil, when we interact with our environment in a way…

— Cory Trepanier