Environment Quotes

  • If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.
    ~ Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress
  • 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.Upload to Facebook
    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
  • When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.Upload to Facebook
    When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.
    ~ David Orr
  • Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
    ~ Bill Vaughn
  • We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.Upload to Facebook
    We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
    ~ Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
  • Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
    ~ Georg Henrik Tikkanen
  • Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find.
    ~ Time
  • Modern technology owes ecology an apology.
    ~ Alan M. Eddison
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