Quotations on Environment Issues
1-There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
2-Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
3-We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
4-The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
5-If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
6-When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.
7-How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?
8-Take care of the earth and she will take care of you.
9-Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
10-Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
11-Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.
12-It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life.
13-When the soil disappears, the soul disappears.
14-In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air.
15-Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
16-Climate change is no longer a doomsday prophecy, it’s a reality.
17-Ameteurs spend untold hours building and restoring custom cars. The results are usually flashier and faster, but almost never lighter, more fuel-efficient or cleaner.
18-Have those loons who talk about “conquering nature” ever thought about what would happen if they succeeded?
19-If
2-Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
3-We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
4-The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
5-If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
6-When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.
7-How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?
8-Take care of the earth and she will take care of you.
9-Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
10-Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
11-Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.
12-It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life.
13-When the soil disappears, the soul disappears.
14-In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air.
15-Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
16-Climate change is no longer a doomsday prophecy, it’s a reality.
17-Ameteurs spend untold hours building and restoring custom cars. The results are usually flashier and faster, but almost never lighter, more fuel-efficient or cleaner.
18-Have those loons who talk about “conquering nature” ever thought about what would happen if they succeeded?
19-If