Destroyed Nature Quotes:

Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price

- Ansel Adams

topic: Environment, Destroyed Nature

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Inspirational, Life, Men, Dead Trees, Nature And Life

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

- Margaret Mead

topic: Nature, Carpe Diem, Society, Inspirational Earth, Our Planet Earth

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

- E. O. Wilson

topic: Nature, Meals, Burning, Italian Renaissance, Rainforest

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence . . .

- Wallace Stegner

topic: Zoos, Dirty, Book, Destroyed Nature, Destroying The Environment

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

- John Muir

topic: Spiritual, Civilization, Environment, Destroyed Nature, Destroying The Environment

Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.

- Ansel Adams

topic: Children, Legacy, Splendid, Destroyed Nature

To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Nature, Children, Land Conservation, Our Planet

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Men, Land, Rivers, Dry Up, Wild Life

I don't agree with you in saying that in all human minds there is poetry. Man as he came from the hand of his Maker was poetic in both mind and body, but the gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

- John Muir

topic: Spiritual, Men, Hands, Destroyed Nature