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There is a delight in the hardy life of the open.
Sep 10, 2025
Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
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.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.
We know that when we protect our oceans we're protecting our future.
We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.
Conservation means development as much as it does protection.
There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.
Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
The Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum can summarize: "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.
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?
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
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.
We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted...So any nation which in its youth lives only for the day, reaps without sowing, and consumes without husbanding, must expect the penalty of the prodigal whose labor could with difficulty find him the bare means of life.
He who plants a tree, plants a hope.
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
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 his feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.
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.
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.
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard.
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.
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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.
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.
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.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
The earth will continue to regenerate its life sources only as long as we and all the peoples of the world do our part to conserve its natural resources. It is a responsibility which every human being shares. Through voluntary action, each of us can join in building a productive land in harmony with nature.
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.
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.
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.
Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.
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
The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.