Save Mother Earth Quotes:

Man maketh a death which Nature never made.

- Edward Young

topic: Men, Made, Save Mother Earth

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

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

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Life, Beauty, Space Race, Inspirational Animal

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

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

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Ambition, Science, Perfect, My Ambition, World Environment

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

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

- Marshall McLuhan

source: "Paradigms Lost: Learning from Environmental Mistakes, Mishaps and Misdeeds" by Daniel A. Vallero, (p. 367), 2005.

topic: Motivational, Nature, Past, Social Environment, Inspirational Earth

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

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

- Albert Einstein

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

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

- Thomas Fuller

source: "Gnomologia". Book by Thomas Fuller, 1732.

topic: Ocean, Sea, Water, Sound Of Water, Take Nothing For Granted

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

Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.

- Ian McHarg

topic: Men, Earth, Blind, Save Mother Earth

I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.

- Imelda Marcos

topic: Mother, Sleep, Humanity, Save Mother Earth

Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population growth, to the dirt, pollution and noise of a New York or Tokyo. And that is the tragedy. It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

- Rene Dubos

topic: New York, Technology, Men, Tokyo, Ecological Crisis

The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies.

- Al Gore

source: Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.275, Routledge

topic: Time, War, Struggle, Vanquish, Save The Environment

The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children

- Paul R. Ehrlich

topic: Mother, Children, Years, Adopted Children, Save Mother Earth

When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face

- John Drinkwater

source: John Drinkwater (1919). “Poems, 1908-1919”

topic: Dream, Bird, Faces, Wild Birds, Save Mother Earth

Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat-glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning?

- Frank N. Ikard

topic: Morning, Children, Animal, Arbor Day, Canaries

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

- D. H. Lawrence

source: D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8255, Delphi Classics

topic: Mother, Hard Work, Men, Mother Earth, Save Mother Earth

It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve without generating electricity, a trumpeter swan may float on uncontaminated water - and moderns may at least see what their ancestors knew in their nerves and blood.

- Bernard DeVoto

topic: Fall, Swans, Curves, Floats, Save Mother 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

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

- Standing Bear

topic: Nature, Heart, Men, Man And Nature, Beautiful Nature

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

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

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

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

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

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Sympathy, Men, Law, Man And Nature, Deep Sympathy

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

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

To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.

- Barbara Kingsolver

source: "Language in Thought and Action". Book by S. I. Hayakawa (p. 8), 1949.

topic: Stupid, Thinking, Land, Environmentalism, Mother Earth

The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money.

- Kenneth E. Boulding

topic: Mother, Men, Bed, Mother Earth, Save Mother Earth

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.

- George Carlin

topic: Beautiful, Song, Nature, Asphalt, Water Pollution

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

- Gil Scott-Heron

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

The exquisite sight, sound, and smell of wilderness is many times more powerful if it is earned through physical achievement, if it comes at the end of a long and fatiguing trip for which vigorous good health is necessary. Practically speaking, this means that no one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

- Garrett Hardin

topic: Mother, Powerful, Mean, Mother Earth, Save Mother Earth

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

- Henrik Tikkanen

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

We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of 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.

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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

And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: "Look at this Godawful mess.

- Art Buchwald

topic: Nature, Men, Aluminum, Natural Environment, Disposable

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

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

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

- Robert Wilson Lynd

topic: Life, Animal, Men, Inspirational Animal, Bird Watching

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

- Garrett Hardin

topic: Mean, Environmental, Able, Means Of Transportation, Save Mother Earth

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

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

Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they’re killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? 'Sweetheart, let’s make up. Have this deceased squirrel.

- Jerry Seinfeld

topic: Funny, Flower, Squirrels, Save Mother Earth

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

- Richard Bach

source: "One". Book by Richard Bach, 1989.

topic: Nature, Civilization, Wrecks, Natural Environment, Save Mother Earth

Any attempt to shape the world and modify human personality in order to create a self-chosen pattern of life involves many unknown consequences. Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. The multiplicity of determinants which affect biological systems limits the power of the experimental method to predict their trends and behavior.

- Rene Dubos

topic: Destiny, Order, Self, Strike Back, Save Mother Earth