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Environment Quotes By Famous People Of World

authoradmin | July 21, 2010

We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
- Unknown

Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.
- Unknown

The environment is everything that isn’t me.
- Unknown

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
- Unknown

The U.S. government was the first to start an automobile junkyard on the Moon.
- Unknown

Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.
- Unknown

Modern technology…..Owes ecology….An apology.
- Unknown

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
- Unknown

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
- Albert Schweitzer

So bleak is the picture that the bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.
- Philip Shabecoff

When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.
- David Orr

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.
- James G. Watt

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
- Thomas Fuller

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
- Ansel Adams

Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.
- Ian McHarg

In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.
- Pursuit

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon

Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.
- John Clapham

Civilization… wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
- Richard Bach

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
- William Ruckelshaus

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
- Henry David Thoreau

Because we don’t think about future generations, they will never forget us.
- Henrik Tikkanen

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau

Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time.
- Baltimore Grotto