Green Quotes

Inspirational quotes for us!



“Modern technology owes ecology an apology.” - Alan M. Eddison

“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

“Because we don’t think about future generations, they will never forget us.” - Henrik Tikkanen

“I’m not an environmentalist. I’m an Earth warrior.” - Darryl Cherney

“I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is as just important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?” - Robert Redford

“We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.” - Thomas Fuller

“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

“We abuse the land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” - Aldo Leopold

“Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.” - John Clapham

“Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.” - Bill Vaughn

“If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.” - Jacques Barzun

“Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they’re killing living creatures? ‘Sweetheart, let’s make up. Have this deceased squirrel.’” - The Washington Post

“A virgin forest is where the hand of man has never set foot.” - Unknown

“I conceive that the land belongs to vast family of wich many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn.” - Unknown

“When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.” - David Orr

“We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.” - Francis Bacon

“Take care of the earth and she will take care of you.” - Unknown

“Opie, you haven’t finished your milk. We can’t put it back in the cow, you know.” - Aunt Bee Taylor, The Andy Griffith Show

“The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.” - Ross Perot

Source: http://www.quotegarden.com/environment

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