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

The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it. – Robert Swan

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed. – Mahatma Gandhi

I don’t want to protect the environment; I want to create the world where the environment doesn’t need protecting. – Unknown

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

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected. – Steve Jobs

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What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another. – Chris Maser

Modern technology, owes ecology, an apology. – Alan M. Eddison

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. – Thomas Fuller

Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us. – Bill Nye

I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn. – Unknown

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. – Ross Perot

The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share. – Lady Bird Johnson

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. – John Muir

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. – John James Audubon

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each. – Henry David Thoreau

Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better. – Albert Einstein

An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. – David Attenborough

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Al least do not ruin the life of those trees, depending on whom we live. Let’s prove that we are humans. – Unknown

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do. – Barbara Ward

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. – Robert Lynd

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. – Emile Durkheim

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment. – Pat Buckley

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved. – Richard Rogers

If we are to go on living together on this earth, we must all be responsible for it. – Kofi Annan