Browsing Topic Best Nature Conservation Quotes

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

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

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.

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.

While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

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

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.

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

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.

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.

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

God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

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?

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

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

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

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

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

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?

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.

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

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

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.

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

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

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

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

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.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.

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

We know that when we protect our oceans we’re protecting our future.