Environment Quotes

"I see the world as an amazing building that deserves to be appreciated, taken care of, and protected."

- Vincent Callebaut

"Biology creates males and females. Pollution creates infertility in them."

- Steven Magee

"Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness."

- Kahlil Gibran

"My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn’t accessible"

- Stella Young

"How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?"

- Henry David Thoreau

"Birds are an ecological litmus paper."

- Roger Tory Peterson

"To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed."

- Teddy Roosevelt

"The best thing you can do for the planet is to stay home."

- Gary Snyder

"Save the Planet...Buy Organic"

- Nancy Philips

"When scientists analyze people who appear to have tremendous self-control, it turns out those individuals aren't all that different from those who are struggling. Instead, 'disciplined' people are better at structuring their lives in a way that does not require heroic willpower and self-control. In other words, they spend less time in tempting situations. The people with the best self-control are typically the ones who need to use it the least. It's easier to practice self-restraint when you don't have to use it very often."

- James Clear

"At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save the natural world if we are not paying attention to it ― if we are not paying attention to all the things that nature give us for free: clean air, clean water, breathtaking vistas, mountains for skiing, rivers for fishing, oceans for sailing, sunsets for poets, and landscapes for painters. What good is it to have wind-powered lights to brighten the night if you can’t see anything green during the day? Just because we can’t sell shares in nature doesn’t mean it has no value."

- Thomas Friedman

"The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, What good is it? If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering."

- Aldo Leopold

"Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym."

- Bill Nye

"Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world."

- Grant Petersen

"Sustainable agriculture is not just about growing crops, it's about caring for the soil, the water, the air, and all the living things that depend on them."

- Vandana Shiva

"The goal of sustainable agriculture should be to regenerate the soil and the ecosystem, not just to maintain them."

- Joel Salatin

"Sustainability is not just about conserving the earth's resources; it's about preserving the very essence of life on this planet."

- David Suzuki

"The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world."

- Michael Pollan

"Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating."

- Wendell Berry

"The sky is a reminder that we are all capable of environment."