Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

environmental

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. 13 quotes from John Muir

Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you. 13 quotes from John Muir

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves. 9 sayings from Robert Collier

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. 19 more views from Marshall McLuhan

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place! 2 thoughts from David R. Brower

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. 117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it. 2 other wisdom & wit from David R. Brower

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble. 3 quotes from Roger Tory Peterson

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life. 3 thoughts from Roger Tory Peterson

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should. 3 other quotes from Samuel Wilson

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions. 25 thoughts from Will Durant

Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left. 3 quotes from John Ray

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either. 7 quotes from Joseph Wood Krutch

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. 10 more quotes from Isaac Bashevis Singer

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman. 7 other thoughts from Joseph Wood Krutch

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. 18 more thoughts from Margaret Mead

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. 18 quotes from Margaret Mead

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. 4 more thoughts from Aldo Leopold

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. 4 quotes from Aldo Leopold

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. 13 sayings from Ansel Adams

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium. 2 quotes from Paul Tsongas

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio. 4 other views from Thomas Malthus

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. 6 thoughts from Luther Burbank

The environment is everything that isn't me. 105 wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein

We must return to nature and nature's god. 6 more thoughts from Luther Burbank