Nature And Environment Quotes by Benjamin Franklin, Michel de Montaigne, Charles Lindbergh, William Shakespeare, Frank Lloyd Wright, Standing Bear and many others.
When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.
Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.
Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
The earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.
What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible – or even sinful – that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he’s been given. But up to now he hasn’t been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life’s become extinct, the climate’s ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
He who plants a tree, plants a hope.
The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
