Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty. William H. Stewart
Things are beautiful if you love them. Jean Anouilh 1950
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you." - Frank Lloyd Wright
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. Henry David Thoreau
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi
An end is a new beginning. Lyn Ecostudio.com.au magazine
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. Havelock Ellis The Dance of Life, 1923
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed. Mohandas K. Gandhi
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. Robert Orben
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles. Jimmy Carter
It wasn't the Exxon Valdez captain's driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill. It was yours. Greenpeace advertisement New York Times 25 February 1990
Modern technology owes ecology an apology. Alan M. Eddison
In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops. Paul Brooks The Pursuit of Wilderness 1971
Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find. Time Magazine
The superior man seeks what is right; the inferior one, what is profitable. Confucius
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. William Ruckelshaus Business Week 18 June 1990
The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard. Gaylord Nelson former governor of Wisconsin - co-founder of Earth Day
When a man throws an empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable to a fine of $50. When a man throws a billboard across a view, he is richly rewarded. Pat Brown quoted in David Ogilvy - Ogilvy on Advertising, 1985
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. Henrik Tikkanen
I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior. Darryl Cherney quoted in Smithsonian April 1990
Your descendants shall gather your fruits. Virgil
When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves. David Orr
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. Francis Bacon
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. Robert Lynd The Blue Lion and Other Essays
Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat - glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning? Frank N. Ikard North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, Houston, March 1968
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life? Charles A. Lindbergh, Reader's Digest, November 1939
It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve without generating electricity, a trumpeter swan may float on uncontaminated water - and moderns may at least see what their ancestors knew in their nerves and blood. Bernand De Voto Fortune, June 1947
Take care of the earth and she will take care of you. Author Unknown
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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