Best Nature Conservation Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“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.”

Source: Silent Spring

“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.”

“There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. 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. Conservation means development as much as it does protection.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt's America: Selections from the Writings of the Oyster Bay Naturalist

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

Home Earth Nature Ecology Conservation Going Home Nature Conservation Green Living Wildlife Conservation Home Sweet Home Home Is Where The Heart Is Home Home Sweet Home House And Home Home Place

Book:The Practice of the Wild

Source: The Practice of the Wild

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence . . .”

Source: The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner

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

Children Wisdom Motivational Earth Peace Environment Land Wise Words Words Of Wisdom Our Children Environmental Climate Change Indian Native Ancestor Native American Elders Inheritance Our Planet Our Environment Environmentalism Mother Earth Borrowing Descendants American Indian Earth Day Nature And Environment Native American Wisdom Great Spirit Native America Save Mother Earth Native American Indian Earth And Nature Great Native American Native American Earth Green Earth Indian Wisdom Native Wisdom Native Land Nature Conservation World Environment Beautiful Earth Green Living Save The Environment Native American Indian Inspirational Save Nature Native American Spiritual Native American Dream World Earth Day Environmental Pollution Inspirational Earth Inspirational Environmental Spiritual Indian Native American Proverbs Saving The Earth Go Green Happy Earth Day Ancient India Earth Friendly Protect Nature Cherokee Indian Native Place

Author:Chief Seattle

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

“There is a delight in the hardy life of the open.”

Life History Delight Wilderness Next Generation Natural Resources Natural Environment Hardy Nature Conservation Nature Life Nature And Life

Book:African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-naturalist

Source: African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-naturalist

“There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.”

Spirit Natural History Environment Mystery Environmental Delight Presidential Charm Wilderness Melancholy Next Generation Natural Resources Natural Environment Nature And Environment Nature Conservation

Book:African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-naturalist

Source: African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-naturalist

“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.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”

“The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the logic of production will there be a chance for sustainability, justice and peace. Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.”

“He who plants a tree, plants a hope.”

“Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.”

“We know that when we protect our oceans we're protecting our future.”

Knows Environment Sea Protect Ocean Our Future Conservation Nature Conservation Ocean Conservation

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001

“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.”

Source: More in Anger

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

“When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.”

Knows Men Environment Environmental Our Environment Mother Earth Nature And Environment Save Mother Earth Nature Love Green Earth Nature Conservation World Environment Save The Environment Save Nature Saving The Earth

Book:Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed

Source: Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed

“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.”

“Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.”

Men Decision Environment Tree Society Shapes Environmental Ecology Nature And Environment Nature Conservation

Author:Rene Dubos

“Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.”

“The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.”

May Turns Nature Century Environmental Invention Bombs Destructive Ecology 20th Century Our Environment Atomic Bomb Biodiversity Save Mother Earth Nature Conservation Save The Environment Environmental Pollution Bulldozers

Author:Philip Shabecoff

“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.”

“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”

Dream Faces Nature Millions Environment Creation Bird Casts Streams Pleasant Conservation Abiding Natural Environment Massacres Save Mother Earth Nature Conservation Wild Birds

Book:Poems, 1908-1919

Source: Poems, 1908-1919

“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?”

“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?”

“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.”

Source: Land of the Spotted Eagle

“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.”

People Environment Stronger Clean Believer Enterprise Pollution Conservation Free Enterprise Nature Conservation

Book:The conscience of a majority

Source: The conscience of a majority

“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.”

Book:Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.”

Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

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

“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”

Nature Conservation Quotes

Related topics

Nature Conservation Quotes