Nature And Environment Quotes:

Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

- Michel de Montaigne

topic: Experience, Littles, Way, Mother Nature, Earth And Nature

We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Sea, Land, Needs, Wildness, Inspiring Nature

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

- Linda Hogan

topic: Patience, Nature, Garden, Nature Beauty, Inspiring Nature

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

- Claude Monet

source: Claude Monet (1985). “Monet: a retrospective”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Nature Beauty, Spiritual Nature

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

- Charles Lindbergh

source: Reader's Digest, July 1972.

topic: Simple, Men, Earth Day, Natural Environment, Destroying The Earth

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.

- Aldo Leopold

source: Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.165, Oxford University Press

topic: Believe, Doctors, Land, Land Conservation, Layman

I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

- Pearl S. Buck

topic: Nature, Earth, Assuming, Nature And Environment

You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

- Chief Seattle

source: Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

topic: Mother, Respect, Children, Seattle, Mother Earth

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

- Joseph Wood Krutch

source: Joseph Wood Krutch (1969). “The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch”

topic: Nature, Joy, Cooking, Inspirational Environmental, Natural Environment

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

- Johannes Kepler

topic: Nature, Science, Simplicity, Nature And Environment

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

- Helen Keller

topic: Nature, Garden, Luxury, Inspirational Gardening, Inspiring Nature

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

- John Keats

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

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

- Juvenal

topic: Nature, Doe, Inspirational Earth, One With Nature, Nature And Life

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

- David Gerrold

topic: Mean Girls, Law, Understanding, Nature And Environment

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

topic: Nature, Tree, Earth Day, Natural Gifts, Greenery

The earth has music for those who listen.

- George Santayana

topic: Music, Encouragement, Art, Beautiful Nature, Inspirational Earth

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Men, Sky, Flying, Inspirational Environmental, Environmentalist

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: World, Transcendentalism, Wilderness, Wildness, Walden Pond

Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.

- Gil Scott-Heron

topic: Nature, Men, Lakes, Lakes And Rivers, Water Pollution

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

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

- Andy Warhol

source: Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Inspirational, Life, Change, Managing Change, Times Have Changed

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

- John Muir

topic: Inspirational, Nature, Giving, Spires, National Parks

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

- Walt Whitman

topic: Nature, Stars, Believe, Nature Beauty, Grains Of Sand

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual, Quiet Person, Experiencing Things

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

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

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

- Rachel Carson

source: Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.41, Open Road Media

topic: Strength, Beauty, Nature, Beautiful Nature, Inspirational Earth

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

The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Nature, Science, Land, Land Conservation, Destroying The Earth

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Love, Peace, Heart, Earth Friendly, 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

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

- James F. Cooper

topic: Lonely, Nature, Earth Day, Beautiful Nature, Inspirational Earth

Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right to live on?

- Margaret Murie

topic: Civilization, Wonder, Wilderness, Environmentalist, Nature And Environment

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

Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.

- Eric Knight

topic: Mountain, Waste, Infinity, World Environment, Nature And Environment

The best friend of earth of man is the tree.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

topic: Men, Tree, Earth, Sustainable Living, Green Trees

We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.

- Paul Morley

topic: Mother, Flower, Cutting, Inspirational Environmental, Mother Nature

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

- Jane Austen

topic: Nature, Flower, Perfect, Beautiful Nature, Mansfield Park

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

- Anne Frank

source: Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.107, GENERAL PRESS

topic: Happiness, God, Lonely, Beautiful Nature, Nature Beauty

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

- David Attenborough

topic: Beauty, Nature, Earth Day, World Earth Day, Beautiful Earth

If it's unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature

- Mollie Beattie

topic: Environment, Nature And Environment

What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself.

- Mollie Beattie

topic: Country, Nature, Conservation, Wildlife And Nature, Wildlife Conservation

The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.

- Ernest Jones

source: Richard Isadore Evans, Carl Gustav Jung, Ernest Jones (1964). “Conversations with Carl [Gustav] Jung and reactions from Ernest Jones”, Princeton, N.J., Van Nostrand

topic: Men, Society, Outrun, Secured, Nature And Environment

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

- Langston Hughes

topic: Rivers, Soul, Nature And Environment

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

Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!

- Paul MacCready

source: "Paul MacCready Interview: Toward A Rational Use of Energy". Interview With Richard Freudenberger, www.motherearthnews.com. September/October 1981.

topic: Grandchildren, Gasoline, Fetch, Save The Environment, Gallons

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

- Rene Dubos

topic: Men, Decision, Shapes, Nature And Environment, Nature Conservation

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

- Richard P. Feynman

topic: Inspirational, Successful, Science, Space Shuttle, Space Shuttle Challenger