If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. – Jacques Barzun, The House of Intellect, 1959
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. – Elwyn Brooks White, Essays of E.B. White, 1977
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. – Pliny the Elder, The Natural History, translated by Philemon Holland
Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature. – Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future, 1964
A virgin forest is where the hand of man has never set foot. – Author Unknown
When a man says to me, “I have the intensest love of nature,” at once I know that he has none. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1857
I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn. – Author Unknown
When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves. – David Orr
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. – 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. – Robert Lynd, The Blue Lion and Other Essays
We are living too fast—yea, we are consuming the blessings given us, at a rate that may leave future generations to sit out in the cold and freeze to death. – W.A. Pryal, “Lumber for Hives: Some Interesting Data on the Way Lumber is being
All in favor of conserving gasoline, please raise your right foot. – Author Unknown
Take care of the earth and she will take care of you. – Author Unknown
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. – Kurt Vonnegut,Jr.
We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the Earth. Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet. – ThÃch Nhất Hạnh
Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity. – E.Knight
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. – Ross Perot
Civilization… wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. – Richard Bach
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. – Ansel Adams
We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved. – Author Unknown
