Quotes on Nature and the Environment
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"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds." |
-Edward Abbey |
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"National Parks exist in order that every citizen may satisfy a craving for Nature, that we may be made better, happier, and healthier." |
-James B. Harkin |
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"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life." |
-John Muir |
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"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." |
- Theodore Roosevelt |
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"If you poison the environment, the environment will poison you." |
- Tony Follari |
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"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars--and yet, they pass by themselves without wondering." |
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"It isn't the language of painters so much as the language of nature that one should heed." |
- Vincent Van Gogh |
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"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?" |
- Robert Redford (Yosemite National Park dedication, 1985) |
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"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature, and God. As long as such a place exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles." |
- Anne Frank |
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"If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished or extinguished. Without the soaring birds, the great forests, the sounds and coloration of the insects, the free-flowing streams, the flowering fields, the sight of clouds by day and the stars at night, we become impoverished in all that makes us human." |
- Thomas Berry |
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"Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves." |
- Jonas Salk |
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"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed." |
- Mohandas Ghandi |
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"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more." |
- Lord Byron |
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"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 freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like falling leaves." |
- John Muir |
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"It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever." |
- Jimmy Carter |
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"Nature has been for me, as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion." |
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"Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point." |
- Harold V. Melchert |
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"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." |
- Marya Mannes |
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"It wasn't the Exxon Valdez captain's driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill. It was yours." |
- 1990 Greenpeace Advertisement |
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"When the earth is sick and polluted, human health is impossible.... To heal ourselves we must heal our planet, and to heal our planet we must heal ourselves." |
- Bobby McLeod |
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"In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught." |
- Baba Dioum |
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