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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
Sep 12, 2025
We must all work together in order to save the environment and the world that we live in from further change.
I've gone where the hand of man has never set foot.
Ultimately, the decision to save the environment must come from the human heart. The key point is a call for a genuine sense of universal responsibility that is based on love, compassion and clear awareness.
When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.
Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
We owe our lives to the sun... How is it, then, that we feel no gratitude?
Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.
I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer.
The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.
The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.
We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.
To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we will have the equality of extinction.
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.
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.
Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
It is up to us to take care of this planet, it is our only home. To betray nature is to betray us. To save nature is to save us. Because whatever you're fighting for, racism or poverty. Feminism, gay rights or any type of equality. It won't matter in the least. Because if we don't all work together to save the environment, we will be equally extinct.
We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment.
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
God cannot save them from fools.
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
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.
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.
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.
All things are bound together. All things connect.
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children
The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies.
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.
You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you ask them to devote 20 minutes a year to having their car emissions inspected, they will vote 80 to 20 against it. We are a long way in this country from taking individual responsibility for the environmental problem.
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.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!