Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

environmental

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.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

We must return to nature and nature's god.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.