Keep the earth clean. Here are some quotes and proverbs about nature and the environment.
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A brother is a friend given by nature.
Jean-Baptiste LegouvéA light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
Anne BrontëA reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop it would diversify its crops to suit the earth.
Verlyn KlinkenborgAdopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo EmersonArt completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.
AristotleArt sometimes is as simple as nothing, and other times as mysterious as nature or a woman.
Jeet AulakhBe empty. Be still. Just watch everything come and go. This is the way of Nature.
LaoziBeing in touch with the natural world is crucial.
David AttenboroughBiology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.
Richard DawkinsBuild back better. Blah, blah, blah. Green economy. Blah blah blah. Net zero by 2050. Blah, blah, blah. This is all we hear from our so-called leaders.
Greta ThunbergBy exposing the absence of purpose in the laws governing the universe, science forces us to take responsibility for the welfare of ourselves, our species, and our planet.
Steven PinkerSource: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
John MuirColors are the smiles of nature.
Leigh HuntCulture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behaviour, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist, so it would need no prohibition.
Yuval Noah HarariEnvironmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
Barry CommonerEverything that is not forbidden by laws of nature is achievable, given the right knowledge.
David DeutschFast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.
Prince CharlesGrass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal.
Brian IngallsHuman intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.
Bryant H. McGillI believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Frank Lloyd WrightI don't mind if other people call me an atheist, but I call myself a naturalist. Atheism doesn't tell you much about what I do believe in; the term naturalist opens up the discussion better.
Greg GraffinI dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.
Raymond CarverSource: This Morning
I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
David AttenboroughIf one way be better than another,
that you may be sure is Nature's way.
Aristotlethat you may be sure is Nature's way.
If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
Vincent van GoghIf you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.
Gautama BuddhaIn all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
AristotleIn every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.
John MuirIt is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars.
David AttenboroughIt is vitally important that we can continue to say, with absolute conviction, that organic farming delivers the highest quality, best-tasting food, produced without artificial chemicals or genetic modification, and with respect for animal welfare and the environment, while helping to maintain the landscape and rural communities.
Prince CharlesIt's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.
David AttenboroughLive and let live.
Don't interfere in other people's life.Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in 'just being'. Allow nature to teach you stillness. When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself.
Eckhart TolleMan is nature's sole mistake.
William S. GilbertModern technology
Owes ecology
An apology.
Alan M. EddisonOwes ecology
An apology.
Morning is the fresh page of nature.
Edward CounselMost people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man, whenever he comes into contact with nature, threatens to kill the natural system in which and from which he live.
Konrad LorenzNatura non facit saltus.
Charles DarwinSource: The Origin Of Species
Latin: Nature does not make jumps.
Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.
Thomas CarlyleNature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
LaoziNature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.
Charles DickensNature is a hanging judge.
Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.
Gary SnyderNature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent.
Richard DawkinsNature is not human hearted.
LaoziNature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
Terence McKennaNever does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
JuvenalOf course, we are happy to receive this aid, but at the same time, we are trading our dignity for 5 kilograms of sorghum, ... The Fulani man has never counted on anybody for assistance, just Mother Nature.
Amadou DoutchiOrganic farming has been shown to provide major benefits for wildlife and the wider environment. The best that can be said about genetically engineered crops is that they will now be monitored to see how much damage they cause.
Prince CharlesPeople must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
David Attenborough