World Environment Day Quotes
"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Havelock Ellis
"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."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Joseph Wood Krutch
"There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Mohandas K. Gandhi
"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."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Robert Orben
"It wasn't the Exxon Valdez captain's driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill. It was yours."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Greenpeace advertisement, New York Times, 25 February 1990
"Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites."
- World Environment Day Quotes by William Ruckelshaus
"Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Henrik Tikkanen
"I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Darryl Cherney, quoted inSmithsonian, April 1990
"Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Michel de Montaigne, translated
"We never know the worth of water till the well is dry."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Thomas Fuller
"Water flows uphill towards money."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Anonymous, saying in the American West, quoted by Ivan Doig in Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert
"Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes! "
- World Environment Day Quotes by Paul MacCready, Jr.
"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Native American Proverb
"There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Marshall McLuhan
"Newspapers: dead trees with information smeared on them."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Horizon
"They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers."
- World Environment Day Quotes by James G. Watt
"The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Ralph Nader
"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."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Marya Mannes
"Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress."
- World Environment Day Quotes by John Clapham
"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Bill Vaughn
"For 200 years we've been conquering Nature. Now we're beating it to death."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Tom McMillan
"If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Jacques Barzun
"Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Pliny the Elder,
"The word "wilderness"occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory."
- World Environment Day Quotes by René Dubos
"Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Dennis Gabor
"A virgin forest is where the hand of man has never set foot."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Author Unknown
"When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature,"at once I know that he has none."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Author Unknown
"When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves."
- World Environment Day Quotes by David Orr
"We cannot command Nature except by obeying her."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Francis Bacon
"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."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Robert Lynd
"The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology."
- World Environment Day Quotes by E.F. Schumacher
"There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Brooke Medicine Eagle
"The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Paul R. Ehrlich
"Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Ian McHarg
"Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values.... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Charles A. Lindbergh
"The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Ernest Jones
"The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Loudon Wainwright
"Every day is Earth Day."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Author Unknown
"Remember when atmospheric contaminants were romantically called stardust? "
- World Environment Day Quotes by Lane Olinghouse
"Nature's laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Luther Burbank
"How can the spirit of the earth like the white man?... Everywhere the white man has touched it, it is sore."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Anonymous Wintu Woman
"The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Carl Sagan
"The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual."
- World Environment Day Quotes by John Muir, letter to J.B. McChesney, 19 September 1871
"Man maketh a death which Nature never made."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Edward Young
"It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Rachel Carson
"Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Gil Stern
"To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Buddha
"Take care of the earth and she will take care of you."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Author Unknown
"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity."
- World Environment Day Quotes by E. Knight
"Opie, you haven't finished your milk. We can't put it back in the cow, you know."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Aunt Bee Taylor
"The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Ross Perot
"Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Richard Bach
"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Ansel Adams
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Richard P. Feynman
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."
- World Environment Day Quotes by John Muir
"Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations."
- World Environment Day Quotes by David Gerrold
"Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Albert Schweitzer
"Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind."
- World Environment Day Quotes by David Ehrenfeld
"Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Rene Dubos
"In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Richard Wilkinson
"We have been god-like in the planned breeding of our domesticated plants, but rabbit-like in the unplanned breeding of ourselves."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Arnold Toynbee
"Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Rene Dubos
"Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Edwin Way Teale, Autumn Across America, 1956
"Waste is a tax on the whole people."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Albert W. Atwood
"It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
"The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Chinese Proverb
"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Albert Einstein
"When you use a manual push mower, you're "cutting"down on pollution and the only thing in danger of running out of gas is you! "
- World Environment Day Quotes by Grey Livingston
"After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Pam Shaw
"The human race will be the cancer of the planet."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Julian Huxley
"Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But teach a man how to fish, and he'll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years."
- World Environment Day Quotes by Charles Haas
