Green Living Quotes:

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

- Stewart Udall

source: Stewart L. Udall (1968). “1976: Agenda for Tomorrow”

topic: Nature, Men, Air, Sustainable Living, Wildlife Conservation

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

People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.

- Ha-Joon Chang

topic: People, Cost, Environment, Dealing With It, Sustainable Living

Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Fate, Air, Water, Sustainable Living, Water Is Life

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

I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait til oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Running, Oil, Waiting, Hydrogen Fuel, Solar Energy

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Nature, Men, Laughing, Healthy Living, Inspirational Earth

I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer.

- Denis Hayes

topic: Environment, Individual, Planets, Inspirational Environmental, Global Economy

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

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Fun, Home, Names, Inspirational Earth, Inspirational Tree

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 Lindbergh

source: "Aviation, Geography, and Race". Reader's Digest, pp. 64-67, November 1939.

topic: Wall, Men, Wind, Asphalt, Save Mother Earth

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

- Chief Seattle

topic: Life, Lonely, Nature, Indian, Inspirational Earth

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Nature, Thinking, Earth Day, Inspirational Environmental, Pantheism

The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril. There may still be disputes about exactly how much we're contributing to the warming of the earth's atmosphere and how much is naturally occurring, but what we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return. And unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels and chart a new course on energy in this country, we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe.

- Barack Obama

topic: Country, Ignorance, Issues, Condemning, Environmental Sustainability

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

- Luther Burbank

topic: Law, Judging, Environmental, Jury, Judge And Jury

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

Where the quality of life goes down for the environment, the quality of life goes down for humans.

- George Holland

topic: Quality, Environment, Quality Of Life, Environmental Quality, Environmental Sustainability

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

source: Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Social Democracy, Social Entrepreneurship

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

There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more.

- Gaylord Nelson

source: Gaylord Nelson, Paul A. Wozniak, Susan M. Campbell (2002). “Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise”, p.175, Univ of Wisconsin Press

topic: Needs, Our Society, Environment, Inspirational Earth, Beautiful Earth

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

- Desmond Tutu

source: FaceBook post by Desmond Tutu from Jan 04, 2014

topic: Life, Success, Peace, Acts Of Kindness, Good In The World

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

- William James

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Social Good, Make Me Feel Better

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

source: Paul Brooks (1971). “The pursuit of wilderness”

topic: America, Land, Today, Land Conservation, Environmental Sustainability

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Important Work, Social Good

For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.

- Rachel Carson

topic: World, Firsts, Environment, Inspirational Environmental, Human History

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

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.

- Luther Standing Bear

source: Luther Standing Bear (1978). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.197, U of Nebraska Press

topic: Wise, Heart, Men, Man And Nature, Lakota

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

- Henrik Tikkanen

topic: Time, Thinking, Generations, Inspirational Environmental, Generation Gap

It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

- Albert Einstein

source: "Small is Beautiful". The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5, (p. 22), August 1973.

topic: Courage, Moving, Simple, Software Design, Something Bigger Than Yourself

We have to cultivate contentment with what we have. We really don't need much. When you know this, the mind settles down. Cultivate generosity. Delight in giving. Learn to live lightly. In this way, we can begin to transform what is negative into what is positive. This is how we start to grow up.

- Tenzin Palmo

topic: Growing Up, Giving, Generosity, Green Living

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

- Jacques Barzun

source: Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

topic: Civilization, Age, Stones, Stone Age, Sustainable Living

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

- Jane Goodall

source: "Inspire Her Feature: Olivia R. Colombo". Interview with Briana Berger, www.codergirls.org. June 19, 2017.

topic: Life, Differences, Making A Difference, Inspirational Strong Women, Nature Love

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

source: "The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity". Book by Mark Vonnegut, 1975.

topic: Spiritual, Yoga, Health, Spiritual Change, Spiritual Health

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

source: Quote magazine, August 14, 1966.

topic: God, Nature, Atheist, Beautiful Nature, Mechanization

Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.

- Kurt Vonnegut

topic: Apology, Drunk, Society, Petroleum, Go Green

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Beautiful Nature, Inspirational Earth

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

- Chief Seattle

topic: Motivational, Wisdom, Peace, Indian, Indian Wisdom

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Love, Inspiring, Peace, Inspirational Earth, Inspirational Environmental

The earth is what we all have in common.

- Wendell Berry

topic: Earth Day, Earth, Common, Inspirational Earth, World Earth Day

We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.

- Wendell Berry

topic: Effort, World, Would Be, Sustainable Living, Eco

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

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

- Barry Commoner

topic: Earth Day, Use, Conquer, Inspirational Earth, Love And Nature

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

- John Muir

source: John Muir (2015). “STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California”, p.67, e-artnow

topic: Nature, Adventure, Garden, Beautiful Nature, National Parks

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 is not a place to visit. It is home.

- Gary Snyder

source: Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.7, Counterpoint Press

topic: Nature, Home, Earth, Sweet Home, Wildlife Conservation