Keep the earth clean. Here are some quotes and proverbs about nature and the environment.
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Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.
Stewart UdallSculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement is nature.
Henry MooreSimplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
Philip James BaileySome people feel the rain. Others just get wet.
Roger MillerSpring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"
Robin WilliamsStudy nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Frank Lloyd WrightThe fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
D.H. LawrenceThe first step toward wisdom is the realization that the laws of the universe don't care about you.
Steven PinkerSource: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
The free market should not include the right to pollute our environment.
George S. McGovernThe kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid BergmanThe question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
David AttenboroughThe redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always ... they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.
John SteinbeckThe world has changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost. For none now live who remember it.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: Movie: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
Noam ChomskyThere is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
Mahatma GandhiThey are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
Jane AustenSource: Mansfield Park (1814)
They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.
James G. WattTo sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Jane AustenWalk lightly in the spring; Mother Earth is pregnant.
Water is the driving force in nature.
Leonardo da VinciWe can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.
David SuzukiWe shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
Aldous HuxleyWhat are young men to rocks and mountains?
Jane AustenSource: Pride and Prejudice
Quoted: Elizabeth
When snow falls, nature listens.
Antoinette van KleefYou may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.
Horace