Environment Quotes

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.  ~Havelock Ellis,The Dance of Life, 1923


There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.  ~Robert Orben


I'm not an environmentalist.  I'm an Earth warrior.  ~Darryl Cherney, quoted inSmithsonian, April 1990


Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find.  ~Quoted in Time


Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.  ~William Ruckelshaus, Business Week, 18 June 1990


Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.  ~Henrik Tikkanen


I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security.  Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad.  Otherwise what is there to defend?  ~Robert Redford, Yosemite National Park dedication, 1985


Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.  ~Michel de Montaigne, translated


We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.  ~Thomas Fuller,Gnomologia, 1732


We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.  ~Native American Proverb


There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth.  We are all crew.  ~Marshall McLuhan, 1964


Newspapers:  dead trees with information smeared on them.  ~Horizon, "Electronic Frontier"


They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.  ~James G. Watt, quoted inNewsweek, 8 March 1982