environmentalist Quotes

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

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• travel

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

• 37
• gardening

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.

• 34
• health

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.

• 23
• leadership

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.

• 18
• environmental

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

• 17
• wisdom

Hell is paved with good intentions.

• 14
• Intention

Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.

• 11
• agriculture

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

• 11
• wisdom

What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.

• 11
• Conflict

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.

• 10
• environmental

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

• 8
• nature

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

• 8
• inspirational

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.

• 8
• cent

Never meet trouble half-way.

• 8
• Trouble

The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.

• 7
• Nature

Diseases are the tax on pleasures.

• 6
• Advice

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

• 5
• Security

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.

• 5
• Seasons

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

• 4
• environmental

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

• 4
• environmental

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

• 4
• civilization

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

• 4
• Flowers

Children are poor men's riches.

• 4
• Children

We must return to nature and nature's god.

• 3
• environmental

The joy of viewing land, the hope of in a few days ranging through the long wished-for spot and the pleasure of again resuming my wonted employment may be readily calculated.

• 3
• again

O, how glorious would it be to set my heel upon the Pole and turn myself 360 degrees in a second!

• 3
• 360

I did a salad, but I didn't do a garden.

• 3
• garden

Many without punishment, none without sin.

• 3
• Punishment

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.

• 2
• environmental

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

• 2
• anger

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

• 2
• environmental

We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

• 2
• absolute

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

• 2
• coming

The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.

• 2
• drill

I don't think there's any way we can save the polar bears.

• 2
• bears

The poor tread lightest on the earth. The higher our income, the more resources we control and the more havoc we wreak.

• 2
• control

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

• 2
• Business

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.

• 1
• delightful

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

• 1
• environment

Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations.

• 1
• descendants

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

• 1
• nature

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

• 1
• inspirational

Good words cool more than cold water.

• 1
• cool

In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.

• 1
• law

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

• 1
• Work

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

• 1
• Trees

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

• 1
• Questions

For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

• 1
• Prejudice

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you... while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

• 1
• Climbing