Inspirational Earth Quotes

Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'you owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that! It lights up the whole sky.

The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.

Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option...they will become a necessity.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

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

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

The earth is what we all have in common.

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

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

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

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

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment...

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.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.

The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity... that's all there is. That's the whole economy. That's where all the economic activity and jobs come from. These biological systems are the sustaining wealth of the world.

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.

The earth has music for those who listen.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

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

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

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

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

All things are bound together. All things connect.

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

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

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

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.

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

Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.

Forests are the lungs of our land.

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.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.