Discover 102 inspiring environment quotes to motivate and guide you on your journey. (Page 1 of 4)
"What starts on Monday should carry through to Friday; that is, enthusiasm."
- Byron Pulsifer
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"Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe."
- Alan Watts
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"Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—to the 'conquest' of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature."
- Alan Watts
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"Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
- Carl Sagan
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"For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority."
- David Suzuki
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"I have been described as the grandfather of climate change. In fact, I am just a grandfather and I do not want my grandchildren to say that grandpa understood what was happening but didn't make it clear."
- James Hansen
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"Only when the last tree has been felled, the last river poisoned and the last fish caught, man will know, that he cannot eat money."
- Cree Indian saying
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"Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools."
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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"The angel cried with a loud voice, saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees."
- Revelation 7:3
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"We can say, ‘Let our grandchildren worry about it.’ But it’s harder to change later. We invest in their children’s education, even though it doesn’t pay off for decades. Why not the planet?"
- Mario Molina
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"For the most part, a sailboat navigates through its world of wind and water not leaving a single trace of its passage. Nothing is consumed. Nothing is altered. The winds and the water are left in exactly the same condition for the next user. Sailing is forever."
- Michael B. McPhee
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"You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable."
- Deepak Chopra
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"Teaching children about the natural world should be treated as one of the most important events in their lives."
- Thomas Berry
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"Children grow up hearing how broken the environment is, how broken beyond repair. Plant strawberries together, make wild medicines, paint the sunrise. Show them proof that for every act of destruction, they can sow a seed, however small, of beauty."
- Nicolette Sowder
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"There can never be too much nature inside a classroom. It is the antidote to the fast-paced, stressful world in which many young children live. Equally important, it encourages an appreciation of the natural world on which we depend."
- Condie Ward
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"An environmental-based education movement—at all levels of education—will help students realize that school isn’t supposed to be a polite form of incarceration but a portal to the wider world."
- Richard Louv
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"Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources."
- Ronald Reagan
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"Indigenous peoples are the guardians of the earth, the protectors of biodiversity, and the custodians of ancestral knowledge."
- Tarcila Rivera Zea
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"An environmental-based education movement—at all levels of education—will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration but a portal to the wider world."
- Richard Louv
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"Let us begin. Let us restore the Earth. Let the mountains talk, and the rivers run."
- David Brower
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"The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home."
- David Suzuki
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"We don’t use nature for therapy. We co-facilitate therapy with nature."
- Laura Park Figueroa, MS, OTR/L
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"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
- Henry David Thoreau
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"Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country."
- William Jennings Bryan
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"Airplanes and satellites are a form of incorrect human environmental conditions."
- Steven Magee
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"You can’t make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable."
- Deepak Chopra
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"Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but photos, kill nothing but time."
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"Bees are a sign of environmental health. A world without bees is a world that has lost its way."
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"E mālama pono i ka ʻāina (Take good care of the land)."
- Unknown
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"May you feel the love and support of those around you as you start your day this Thursday morning, and may you be filled with energy and enthusiasm to take on whatever comes your way."
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