Wildlife And Nature Quotes:

Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.

- E. O. Wilson

topic: Nature, Animal, Pet, Wildlife And Nature, Wildlife Animals

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

- Charles Darwin

source: Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.25, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Love, Life, Nature, Inspirational Animal, Animal Cruelty

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

- Aristotle

topic: Life, Nature, Philosophical, Beautiful Nature, Marvelous Things

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed”

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Patience, Natural Gifts, Keep Patience

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

- Albert Einstein

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

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

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

- William Wordsworth

source: William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.337

topic: Life, Education, Teacher, Natural Things, Nature Beauty

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

Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Pain, Animal, Men, Inspirational Animal, Killing Animals

To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

- William Blake

topic: Eye, Men, Imagination, Man And Nature, Nature Of Man

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

- John Muir

source: John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Motivational, Wisdom, Nature, Talkative, Wild Animal

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

- John Muir

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

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

- James Russell Lowell

topic: Weed, Nature, Flower, Inspirational Flower, Inspirational Gardening

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

- Francis of Assisi

topic: Religious, Peace, Animal, Inspirational Animal, Kindness To Animals

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

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

- William Blake

topic: Hands, Infinity, Palms, Beautiful Nature, Inspirational Earth

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

- Alice Walker

topic: Meaningful, Nature, Animal, Human Will, Animal Cruelty

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

- Edward Abbey

source: Quoted in Reader's Digest, Jan. 1970

topic: Inspirational, Nature, Cancer, Wildlife And Nature, Political Environment

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 greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Wisdom, Peace, Kindness, Human Will, Inspirational Dog

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

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Nature, World, Beautiful Nature, National Parks, Nature Beauty

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

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

- Rachel Carson

source: Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Nature, Zoos, Ocean, Deep Ecology, Destruction Of Nature

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

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

- William Blake

source: 'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 1

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Peace, Beautiful Nature, Spirit Of Life

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

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 worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Peace, Soulmate, Honesty, Inhumanity, Indifference And Apathy

Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife and nature. Ultimately, this dualistic battle is based on false premises. In fact, this planet is more powerful than the human species.

- Zeena Schreck

topic: Religious, Powerful, Battle, Wildlife And Nature, Human Species