Environment Quotes

  • When the last tree is cut and the last fish killed, the last river poisoned, then you will see that you can't eat money.Upload to Facebook
    When the last tree is cut and the last fish killed, the last river poisoned, then you will see that you can't eat money.
    ~ John May, The Greenpeace Story
  • 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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