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

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.”

“Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us.”

Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

“What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself.”

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Author:Mollie Beattie

“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.”

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Author:Gerald R. Ford

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.”

Source: The Yosemite

“We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.”

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Author:Francis Bacon

“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”

“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.”

“Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.”

Source: Round River

“For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.”

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

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

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Book:The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future

Source: The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future

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

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.”

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”

Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“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?”

“We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”

“Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.”

“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.”

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...

“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”

“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.”

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

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

“To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.”

Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

“Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.”

“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.”

“And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: "Look at this Godawful mess.”

“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

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

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Book:The Practice of the Wild

Source: The Practice of the Wild

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

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

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

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