Conserving Environment Quotes:

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

- Ansel Adams

source: "Playboy Interview: Ansel Adams". Interview with David Sheff, Playboy (p. 226), May 1, 1983.

topic: Nature, Fighting, Government, Inspirational Environmental, Our Planet

Forests are the lungs of our land......

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Land, Forests, Inspirational Earth, Inspirational Environmental, Inspiring Nature

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

- Aldo Leopold

source: A Sand County Almanac foreword (1949)

topic: Inspiring, Nature, Ocean, Inspirational Environmental, Inspiring Nature

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

- William Ruckelshaus

source: Business Week, June 18, 1990.

topic: Lunch, Environment, Appetite, Free Lunch, One With Nature

The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

- Gaylord Nelson

topic: Sacrifice, Men, Grandchildren, Inspirational Environmental, Environmentalist

The Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum can summarize: "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."

- Ursula Goodenough

topic: Environmental, Understanding Love, End Of The World, Sustaining, Environmental Sustainability

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Peace, Nature, Reflection, Social Environment, Green World

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

- John Muir

topic: Inspirational, Peace, Nature, Natural Things, Beautiful Nature

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature, Inspirational Earth, Inspirational Environmental

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

source: "Waiting to Inhale: Don't Take a Breath Without the Report From Our Air Pollution Control District". The San Diego Union-Tribune, January 31, 2008.

topic: Fun, Air, Environment, Inspirational Earth, Water Pollution

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

- Ralph Nader

topic: Fun, Oil, Earth Day, Inspirational Earth, Inspirational Environmental

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

- Jacques Yves Cousteau

topic: Ocean, Two, Air, Ocean Conservation, Ocean Water

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Summer, Peace, Natural Gifts, Natural Things

The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

topic: Men, Garden, Tree, Man And Nature, Sustainable Living

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

- John James Audubon

topic: Nature, Children, Father, Inspirational Earth, Inspirational Environmental

The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.

- Al Gore

topic: Children, Real, Rain, Destroying The Earth, Earth Friendly

The two most abundant forms of power on earth are solar and wind, and they're getting cheaper and cheaper...

- Ed Begley, Jr.

topic: Wind, Two, Energy, Wind Energy, Wind Power

The good news is, we have everything we need now to respond to the challenge of global warming. We have all the technologies we need, more are being developed.... But we should not wait, we cannot wait, we must not wait.

- Al Gore

topic: Technology, Waiting, Challenges, Environmental Challenges, Environmental Change

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Men, Conserving Environment, Save The Environment

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

source: Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

topic: Revenge, Abuse, Earth, World Environment, Environmental Pollution

The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.

- Stephanie Mills

source: Stephanie Mills (1990). “In Praise of Nature”, p.97, Island Press

topic: Nuclear, Safe, Sun, Inspirational Earth, Inspirational Environmental

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

- Tom Allen

topic: Independence, Foundation, Energy, Energy Conservation, Energy Independence

He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.154, Graphic Arts Books

topic: Sweet, Garden, Men, Inspirational Environmental, Environmental Sustainability

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

- Richard Rogers

topic: Earth Day, Environmental, Quality, World Environment, Environmental History