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

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Forests are the lungs of our land.

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.

Do your little bit of good where you are.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels… we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe

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

What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return

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

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

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he’s been given.

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

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.

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.

All things are bound together. All things connect.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.

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.

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

With all this talk of Going Green, Buying Green, Living Green, and Green being the new whatever, I’ve come to realize that, although we had no green, my grandmother was actually the ‘greenest’ person I’ve ever known.

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

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

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

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

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.