Environment Quotes By Famous People Of World
admin | 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
