Saving The Earth Quotes

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?

The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.

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.

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.

If we use resources productively and take to heart the lessons learned from coping with the energy crisis, we face a future confronted only, as Pogo, once said, by insurmountable opportunities. The many crises facing us should be seen, then, not as threats, but as chances to remake the future so it serves all beings.

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

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.

The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

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.

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.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.

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?

Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.

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

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

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

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

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

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

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.

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

In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.

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.

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.