353 quotes by environmentalists for you to enjoy

During the Holocene, we undoubtedly altered our environment significantly, clearing land, diverting water and building great cities. Johan Rockstrom

Great Water Building Our Cities Diverting Environment Clearing Altered Undoubtedly Land

I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories. John Francis

The dispersal of juniper seeds is effected by the plum and cherry plan of hiring birds at the cost of their board, and thus obtaining the use of a pair of extra good wings. John Muir

Good Extra Birds Plum Seeds Cost Wings Thus Obtaining Cherry Hiring Effected Board Plan Use Pair

Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the 'Dust and Ashes Act,' any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title. John Muir

Citizen Half Dust Hundred One Act States Could Take Obtain Well Timber Been Dollars Up Stone Any Sixty Which Title Ashes Land Might Acre Acres Act Paying United United States Two

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. John Muir

Power Control Creation Flower Glance Greatest Lords Times May Which

Diseases are the tax on pleasures. John Ray

Pleasures Diseases Tax

Never meet trouble half-way. John Ray

Trouble Meet Never Half-Way

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman. Joseph Wood Krutch

God Man Destroys He Call Him Sportsman Works

What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants. Joseph Wood Krutch

War Man Everywhere He Knows Wants

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies. Joseph Wood Krutch

Life Good Loyalty People Grace Impossible Seriously Few Good Life Some Touched Rational Wished Most Without Traditional Passions Affectionate Few People Form Which Ceremonial Ceremonies Ever Desire

In the cold, all the blood rushes to your core to protect your heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, and brain. When you leave the water, the blood rushes back to your arms and legs, absorbs that freezing cold, and brings it back to the heart. Lewis Gordon Pugh

You Heart Water Cold Back Absorb Freezing Protect Arms Leave Brain Blood Legs Your Liver Lungs Brings Core

I've been on swims where people have freaked out about sharks. You have to think about something else, otherwise it will absolutely paralyze you. I do math problems, anything. Lewis Gordon Pugh

You People Sharks Problems Will Think Else Otherwise Out Freaked Paralyze About Something Something Else Absolutely Been Math Where Anything

I wish politicians would put the environment at the centre of every agenda. Lewis Gordon Pugh

Wish Politicians Every Would Put Environment Centre Agenda

When I was born, the world's population was 3.5 billion. There are now 6.8 billion people on the planet. By 2050, that's expected to rise to 9.4 billion. What's more, the Earth's resources aren't growing; they're decreasing - and rapidly. Lewis Gordon Pugh

People World Resources Earth Rapidly Born Rise More Expected Planet Decreasing Billion Population Growing Now

The days of exploration of Shackleton and Scott are long gone. Everything has been climbed, crossed, done. Now what we're exploring are the full boundaries of human endeavour. It's not physical - it's all in the head. Lewis Gordon Pugh

I think that I was slightly naive. I thought that if I showed people the beauty of the Arctic and the beauty of the polar bears that they would care so much that they would stand up and try to make a change. Lewis Gordon Pugh

Change People Try Care Thought Beauty Think Slightly Would Arctic Bears Polar Naive Make Up Much Stand Stand Up

Heredity is nothing but stored environment. Luther Burbank

Nothing Environment Stored Heredity

The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead. Luther Burbank

Love Truth Lover Lead Scientist Itself Very May Wherever

No matter how rich you are, you can't get healthy air. Ma Jun

You Matter Healthy Rich Air How Get

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