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Environment Quotes SMS
Living in the midst of abundance we
Living in the midst of abundance we have the greatest difficulty in seeing that the…
The system of nature which man is
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting,…
Why do people give each other flowers
Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they’re killing living…
When we heal the earth ourselves david
When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves. ~David Orr
There is nothing in which the birds
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in…
You go into a community and they
You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in…
Something will have gone out of us
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the…
And man created the plastic bag and
And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane…
When you use a manual push mower
When you use a manual push mower, you’re "cutting" down on pollution and the only…
When a man says to me 34i
When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once…
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as…
Malthus has been buried many times and
Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin…
Those who wish to pet and baby
Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them. But those who respect…
Theres so much pollution in the air
There’s so much pollution in the air now that if it weren’t for our lungs…
The sun the moon and stars would
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened…
The earth we abuse and the living
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take…
The rose has thorns only for those
The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
Primeval forests virgin sod that saxon has
Primeval forests! virgin sod! That Saxon has not ravish’d yet, Lo! peak on peak in…
Human consciousness arose but a minute before
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies…
The use of solar energy has not
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does…
Ironically rural america has become viewed by
Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a…
Civilization wrecks the planet from seafloor to
Civilization… wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. ~Richard Bach
We shall require a substantially new manner
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. ~Albert…
The human race will be the cancer
The human race will be the cancer of the planet. ~Julian Huxley, attributedDCMOO
Man has lost the capacity to foresee
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying…
When a man throws an empty cigarette
When a man throws an empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable to…
How long can men thrive between walls
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the…
We have to shift our emphasis from
We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality…
Dont blow it good planets are
Don’t blow it – good planets are hard to find. ~Quoted in Time
There are no passengers on spaceship earth
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. ~Marshall McLuhan, 1964
When you defile the pleasant streams and
When you defile the pleasant streams And the wild bird’s abiding place, You massacre a…
The desire to build a risk free society
The desire to build a risk-free society has always been a sign of decadence. It…
Opie you havent finished your milk we
Opie, you haven’t finished your milk. We can’t put it back in the cow, you…
As we watch the sun go down
As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the…
Humankind has not woven the web of
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. …
The american reading his sunday paper in
The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the…
The universe is not required to be
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. ~Carl Sagan
A human being is part of the
A human being is part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited…
Remember when atmospheric contaminants were romantically called
Remember when atmospheric contaminants were romantically called stardust? ~Lane Olinghouse
Let us a little permit nature to
Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her…
The word 34wilderness34 occurs approximately three hundred
The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings…
How can the spirit of earth like
How can the spirit of the earth like the white man?… Everywhere the white man…
When some high sounding institute states that a
When some high-sounding institute states that a compound is harmless or a process free of…
There is hope if people will begin
There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that…
You forget that the fruits belong to
You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no…
We must not be forced to explore
We must not be forced to explore the universe in search of a new home…
Why should man expect his prayer for
Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above…
Dig a trench through landfill and you
Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like…
Human destiny is bound to remain a
Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in…
Loyd 34it has to do with keeping
Loyd: "It has to do with keeping things in balance. It’s like the spirits have…
It is the safest of times it
It is the safest of times, it is the riskiest of times…. What the Dickens…
One of the first laws against air
One of the first laws against air pollution came in 1300 when King Edward I…
Racial injustice war urban blight and environmental
Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative…
Christianity with its roots in judaism was
Christianity, with its roots in Judaism, was a major factor in the development of the…
We say we love flowers yet pluck
We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet…
It is a curious situation that the
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now…
Im not an environmentalist earth warrior darryl
I’m not an environmentalist. I’m an Earth warrior. ~Darryl Cherney, quoted in Smithsonian, April 1990
Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible
Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible – or even sinful – that you burned…
Nature always strikes back it takes all
Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in…
I realized that eastern thought had somewhat
I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was…
Waste is a tax on the whole
Waste is a tax on the whole people. ~Albert W. AtwoodCOE
Modern technology owes ecology an apology alan
Modern technology Owes ecology An apology. ~Alan M. Eddison
The insufferable arrogance of human beings to
The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their…
We shall continue to have a worsening
We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom…
Man is a blind witless low brow
Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth. …
So bleak is the picture that bulldozer
So bleak is the picture… that the bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn…
They kill good trees to put out
They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. ~James G. Watt, quoted in Newsweek,…
The struggle to save the global environment
The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than…
To waste to destroy our natural resources
To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of…
It is imperative to maintain portions of
It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will…
Us consumers and industry dispose of enough
U.S. consumers and industry dispose of enough aluminum to rebuild the commercial air fleet every…
Oh beautiful for smoggy skies insecticided grain
Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain’s majesty above the asphalt plain….
We could have saved the earth but
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Every creature is better alive than dead
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he…
The magnificence of mountains the serenity nature
The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature – nothing is safe from the idiot…
The control man has secured over nature
The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself. ~Ernest…
If civilization has risen from the stone
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper…
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. …