We are the environment.
- Charles Panati
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
- William Ruckelshaus
When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.
Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.
- Michel de Montaigne
We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
- Orison Swett Marden
Living simply has resulted in us becoming more aware of the environment and the impact we have on it.
- Catherine Pulsifer
The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.
- Morris K. Udall
Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.
- Dennis Gabor
The human race will be the cancer of the planet.
- Julian Huxley
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.
- Rachel Carson
A virgin forest is where the hand of man has never set foot.
- Unknown
In an underdeveloped country, don’t drink the water; in a developed country, don’t breathe the air.
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
- Carl Sagan
The environment is everything that isn’t me.
- Albert Einstein
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
- Martin Luther King
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
- Margaret Mead
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
- Marya Mannes
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
- E.F. Schumacher
Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.
- Jacques Cousteau
Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees.
- Bible
The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature – nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man’s passing.
- Loudon Wainwright