Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see.

E. O. Wilson

The commitment must be much deeper - to let no species knowingly die; to take all reasonable action to protect every species and race in perpetuity.

E. O. Wilson

Ninety-nine percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct.

E. O. Wilson

Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.

E. O. Wilson

If enough species are extinguished, will the ecosystems collapse, and will the extinction of most other species follow soon afterward? The only answer anyone can give is: possibly. By the time we find out, however, it might be too late. One planet, one experiment.

E. O. Wilson

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

E. O. Wilson

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

E. O. Wilson

Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it... Eliminate one species, and another increases to take its place. Eliminate a great many species, and the local ecosystem starts to decay.

Dr. Seuss

I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.

Donald Miller

And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing red pours its tinge upon earth's shore. These mountains, which have seen untold sunrises, long to thunder praise but stand reverent, silent so that man's weak praise should be given God's attention.

Claude Bernard

We must keep our freedom of mind, ... and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.

Dalai Lama

Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at all by future generations. We have the capability and the responsibility to act; we must do so before it is too late.

Delia Ephron

In your standard-issue family, of which few remain, but on which our expectations are still based, there are parents and there are children. The way you know which are which, aside from certain size and age differences and despite any behavior similarities, is that the parents are the bossy ones.

Dag Hammarskjold

The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist.

Dag Hammarskjold

When the sense of the earth unites with the sense of one's body, one becomes earth of the earth, a plant among plants, an animal born from the soil and fertilizing it. In this union, the body is confirmed in its pantheism.

Dag Hammarskjold

He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.

Claude Monet

When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working...

Claude Monet

My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.

Cynthia Weil

My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself.

Cyrano de Bergerac

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.

Cyril Connolly

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

Cyril Connolly

The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning.

Cormac McCarthy

At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned

David Sobel

We tiptoed the tops of beaver dams, hopped hummocks, went wading, looked at spring flowers, tried to catcha snake, got lost and found. How fine it was to move at a meandery, child's pace.

David Sobel

Wet sneakers and muddy clothes are prerequisites for understanding the water cycle.

David Sobel

Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a source of strength for social action.

David Sobel

The heart of childhood, from seven to eleven, is the critical period for bonding with the earth.

David Sobel

If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it.

David Hare

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

Confucius

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant.

David Geffen

The concept known as bal tashchit--'Do no destroy'--has a special significance in Jewish tradition...We are constantly being warned in our faith that the capricious, thoughtless, wasteful destruction of the elements and creatures of the earth is wrong...We should remind ourselves daily of our responsibility to all aspects of creation.

Debbie Harry

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

Anna Sewell

God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves, but He had given animals knowledge which did not depend on reason, and which was much more prompt and perfect in its way, and by which they had often saved the lives of men.