Quotes by Environmentalists

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring. Aldo Leopold
Spring Summer Geese Make Does Swallow March
To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. John Muir
Travel Wonderful World Lover Wilderness Countries Most Alaska
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. John Muir
Fool Long Down Trees Destroy Destroyed Hides Out Hunted Run Would Horns Magnificent Chased Could Got Still Dollar Any Cannot Bark Fun Away
The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams. John Muir
Soil Relations Our Importance Practical Climate Augmented Forests Streams Preservation
We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the practice of free-market capitalism. It will provide business and public policy with a powerful new tool for economic development, profitability, and the promotion of the public good. Paul Hawken
Good Capitalism Business Natural Economic Development Will Value Economics Practice Thinking Tool Our Resources Promotion Give Both Economic Development Powerful New Policy Provide Revise Revised Stabilize Public Natural Resources Public Good Full Theory Public Policy Profitability Need
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. Aldo Leopold
Environmental You Harmony Like Cherish His Hand Off Friend Left Cannot Land Chop Right Right Hand
Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need - not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment. John Muir
Life Good Water Enjoy Life Independence Tea Enjoy Ought Easily Kind Tempered Delightful Particular Excursion Particular Kind Also Without Proved Trained Brave Any May Diet Just Bread Much Flesh Toil Full Ignored Nourishment Many Need
The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this? John Muir
Nature Value Poet Power Beauty Every Tree Waving Top Sung Magic Magic Wand Marvelous Dell Call Knows Devout Still Pine Hand Scotch Mountain Wand
Every other civilized nation in the world has been compelled to care for its forests, and so must we if waste and destruction are not to go on to the bitter end, leaving America as barren as Palestine or Spain. John Muir
World Destruction Care Nation Every Other Bitter Bitter End Has-Been Must Civilized Leaving Go Been End Forests America Spain Barren Waste Palestine Compelled
Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time. John Ray
Time Nothing Invented Same Same Time
Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow. Paul Watson
Dreams World Better Tomorrow Better World Follow Follow Your Dreams Talents Make Skills Use Your Your Dreams
I have been honoured to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me. Paul Watson
Strength Me Intelligence Beauty Other Earth Honoured Spirit Inspired Been Dolphins Whales Seals Creatures Serve
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. Aldo Leopold
Integrity Beauty Community Otherwise Tends Wrong Stability Right Thing Preserve
Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind. Aldo Leopold
Mind Job Country Building Recreational Roads Development Still Human Lovely Human Mind
Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm. Donella Meadows
You Communicate Try Paradigm Intrinsic Someone Mental Until Existence Different Process Your Aware Hardly
Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, 'convulsions of nature,' etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God's love. John Muir
Love God Nature Song First Creation Every Harmonious Earthquakes Sight Seem Lawless Varied Only Mysterious Sort However May Storms Etc Notes Expressions
One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man. John Muir
Man Heart People Water Churches Temple Well Cathedrals Tanks Been May Holier Ever Consecrated Dam
I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God. John Muir
Life God Rest My Life Determined Inventions Study Devote Mechanical
When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent. John Muir
Wild Part California Continent
Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash. John Muir
Food Man Animal Living Worms Earth Eating Seems Only Clean Him Making Perpetual Fishes Much Seals Wash Washing Whose Lives Necessary
Sequoia seeds have flat wings, and glint and glance in their flight like a boy's kite. John Muir
Seeds Wings Kite Glance Like Boy Flat Flight
How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society. John Muir
Society Earthquakes Those Must Terribly How Accustomed Storms Downright Soft
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. Joseph Wood Krutch
You Cats Pet Seem Never Principle Does Go Any Want Ask Harm
If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers. Joseph Wood Krutch
Environmental God People Made Destroy Something Developers Irreplaceable Mankind
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. Joseph Wood Krutch
Inspirational Knowledge Ignorance Mother Wonder Which
If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. Luther Burbank
Nature You Judge Own Laws Prosecuting Attorney Jury Hangman Your Violate
Load more quotes
About
Site pages
Top Quotes
Authors
Today's birthdays
Copyright © Quotesia 2025