Environmentalist Quotes

As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

The grand show is eternal It is always sunrise somewhere

Of all the path you take in life make sure a few of them are dirt.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

In every walk with the nature one receives far more than he seeks.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.

I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can".

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

Thousands of tired, never-shaken, over civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home, that wilderness is a necessity.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature;

he finds it attached to the rest of the world. Variant - When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. Variant - Tug on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything else in the universe.

To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news

We abuse 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.

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.

The United States government has always been proud of the welcome it has extended to good men of every nation, seeking freedom and homes and bread.

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

I every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the logcock will wake you in the morning. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. Of all the upness accessible to mortals, there is no upness comparable to the mountains.

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.

Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.

Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.

Any fool can destroy trees, they cannot run away.

Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed-chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got of their bark hides.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.

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.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.

There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.

Keep close to nature's heart... and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain, or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

Most floods are caused by man, not weather;

deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services.

In God's wildness lies the hope of the world.

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rain forest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity

In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.