215 Best Environment Quotes to Help You Make a Difference

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Famous Environment Quotes

The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share. — Lady Bird Johnson

Environment is the invisible hand that shapes human behavior. — James Clear

Our environment determines the suitability of our genes and the utility of your natural talents. — James Clear

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations. — Earl Nightingale

Environment, circumstances, psychology, markets, cause-and-effect relationships — Howard Marks

A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us. — Rowan Williams

Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally. — Marshall McLuhan

The environment is in us, not outside of us. The trees are our lungs, the rivers our bloodstream. We are all interconnected, and what you do to the environment ultimately you do to yourself. — Ian Somerhalder

It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live. — Dalai Lama

The most important issue of the 21st century will be the condition of the global environment. — Ian McHarg

A sound eco-environment is the most basic public good that benefits all. — Xi Jinping

Our environment and lifestyle choices can have a significant impact on our gene expression and overall health. — Steven Gundry

The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it. — David Attenborough

The Truly Healthy environment is not merely safe but stimulating. — William H. Stewart

If the environment were a bank, it would have been saved by now — Bernie Sanders

Short Environment Quotes

  • To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely. — Maria Montessori
  • Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty. — John Ruskin
  • Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. — Steve Jobs
  • We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. — Thomas Fuller
  • Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way. — Vandana Shiva
  • The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room. — El Lissitzky
  • Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed. — Mahatma Gandhi
  • It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. — Ansel Adams
  • Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die. — Gil Scott-Heron
  • A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment. — Frank Zappa

Environment Image Quotes

The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind. - Gaylord Nelson quote

The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind. — Gaylord Nelson

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment. - Learned Hand quote

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment. — Learned Hand

Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage. - Jacques Yves Cousteau quote

Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage. — Jacques Yves Cousteau

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Toxic Environment Quotes

Two people thought I was pretty demanding, which was perfectly fine. We have high standards, but it's not a toxic work environment. — MrBeast

The environment is the most important, the most fundamental, civil-rights issue.... Four out of every five toxic-waste dumps in America is in a black neighborhood. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation. — Andrew Weil

Toxic remnants of war represent a profound challenge for the protection of public health and the restoration of the environment in countries affected by conflict. — Widad Akrawi

In Sweden, water fluoridation, to my knowledge, is no longer advocated by anybody. In Sweden, the emphasis nowadays is to keep the environment as clean as possible with regard to pharmacologically active and, thus, potentially toxic substances. — Arvid Carlsson

I always knew pesticides affected farmworkers. That's why I always tell people, "eat organic." Not just because it's better for you but because you know the people who picked your food weren't in a toxic environment. — Eva Longoria

Some people are doomed from birth because their environment is so toxic. — Charlie LeDuff

It's never been proven that air toxics are hazardous to people. — Tom DeLay

Positive Work Environment Quotes

You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, ackowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins. — Jim Stovall

I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being pursued, insert yourself into its environment; get in the door in any position and work from within. — William Jackson

Your work is to go forth into this physical environment looking for things that are a vibrational match to joy, connecting to Source Energy, and then following with the inspired action. — Esther Hicks

If there is a mutual respect between players and coaches, that keeps the team honest and makes for a very healthy environment which in turn promotes other important qualities such as work ethic, integrity and a positive atmosphere for competing and winning. — Jillian Ellis

If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment. — Sonia Sotomayor

Positive work environments outperform negative work environments. — Daniel Goleman

I think we will work our way towards a position that says that having more than two children is irresponsible. — Jonathon Porritt

Clean Environment Quotes

When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack. — Gwen Moore

Our goal is not just an environment of clean air and water and scenic beauty. The objective is an environment of decency, quality and mutual respect for all other human beings and all other living creatures. — Gaylord Nelson

There is much the government can do and should do to improve the environment. But even more important is the individual who plants a tree or cleans a corner of neglect. For it is the individual who himself benefits, and also protects a heritage of beauty for his children and future generations. — Lady Bird Johnson

While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment. — Barry Goldwater

PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently prosperous, commonly clean and always solemn. — Ambrose Bierce

At a time when our planet is warming due to climate change, the last thing our environment needs is more drilling. What we need is for Congress and the White House to move toward clean energy such as solar, wind and geothermal. — Bernie Sanders

We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people. — George Lincoln Rockwell

Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine. — Lillian Russell

From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence. — Paul Tsongas

Can we really expect adequate funding for programs to clean up our environment and care for people's basic needs as long as the socially essential work of caretaking and cleaning is relegated to women for little or no pay? — Riane Eisler

Green Environment Quotes

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. — Henrik Tikkanen

The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom for me and you. And I think to myself what a wonderful world. I see skies of blue and clouds of white. The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night. And I think to myself what a wonderful world — Louis Armstrong

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. — James G. Watt

The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away. — Stephanie Mills

Where the quality of life goes down for the environment, the quality of life goes down for humans. — George Holland

We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin. — Leif Johansson

Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum. — Kurt Vonnegut

There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more. — Gaylord Nelson

Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it. — Paul McCartney

New Environment Quotes

Transparency is all about letting in and embracing new ideas, new technology and new approaches. No individual, entity or agency, no matter how smart, how old, or how experienced, can afford to stop learning. — Gina McCarthy

I believe in nurturing creativity and offering a haven for creators, enabling them to develop their ideas to the fullest. With more and more talented creators being drawn to Cirque in an environment that fulfills them, these are ideal to continue developing great new shows. — Guy Laliberte

We’re making new investments in the development of gasoline and diesel and jet fuel that’s actually made from a plant-like substance-algae... We could replace up to 17 percent of the oil we import for transportation with this fuel that we can grow right here in the United States. — Barack Obama

The message from Wal-Mart today to the rest of the business community is there need not be any conflict between the environment and the economy. We will find the way not only to reconcile (those), but to find new profits and new opportunities as we do the right thing. — Al Gore

I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place. — Campbell Scott

Ethics is the new competitive environment — Peter Robinson

I know that suffering gives us new perspectives and helps us to clarify our real value. I know that suffering has helped me to clarify my relationships ... Perhaps suffering stops us in our tracks and forces us to confront what is real within ourselves and in our environment. — Thea Bowman

We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment. — Norbert Wiener

It is wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people. It challenges you to think and work on a different level. If you play with better players, you learn a lot: perspectives, intellectual arguments, new ways of thinking about things. — Marissa Mayer

The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that same path can lift us to a new, green economy - one with the power to lift people out of poverty while respecting and repairing the environment. — Van Jones

Beautiful Environment Quotes

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance. — Theodore Roosevelt

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration. — Claude Monet

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty. — Hu Shih

Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price — Ansel Adams

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea. — George Carlin

We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness - and for its beauty. Its materials are in constant flow, and all those thousands of useless cherry blossoms look gorgeous. Then they fall to the ground and become soil again, so there's no problem — William McDonough

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn! — Logan Pearsall Smith

How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life? — Charles Lindbergh

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side — E. F. Schumacher

Change Your Environment Quotes

One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again? — Rachel Carson

You become what you do. How and what you become depends on environmental influence so you become who you hang around. Raise the standard your peers must meet and you'll raise your expectations of yourself. If your environment is not making you better, change it. — Mark Twight

Don't let your character change color with your environment. Find out who you are and let it stay it's true color. — Rachel Scott

Real happiness only comes as a side-effect of peace. Most of it is going to come from acceptance, not from changing your external environment. — Naval Ravikant

By walking a long time in an environment, landscapes begin to influence on your mood, as( landscapes) change, your feelings do. — Jacques Lecoq

Buffett does enjoy being a billionaire, but in offbeat ways. As he put it, though money cannot change your health or how many people love you, it lets you be in 'more interesting environments. — Roger Lowenstein

Do what you love. Love what you do. Take less. Give more. Never quit. Never follow. Be passionate. Be bold. Be honest. Respect people. Respect the environment. Always bring out the best in your family and friends. Change is the only constant. Fear is an illusion. Attitude is everything. — Sonnie Trotter

Architecture enable you to accommodate complexity and change. If you don't have Enterprise Architecture, your enterprise is not going to be viable in a increasingly complex and changing external environment. — John Zachman

It is senseless to blame others or your environment for your miseries. Change begins from the moment you muster the courage to act. When you change, the environment will change. The power to change the world is found nowhere but within our own life. — Daisaku Ikeda

We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try to find something wrong with it. — Phil Jones

Our Environment Quotes

Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service to them whenever they require it. — Francis of Assisi

It is not your environment, it is you- the quality of your mind, the integrity of your soul and the determination of your will that will decide your future and shape your life. — Benjamin E. Mays

Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment — David Attenborough

Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment. Take off your clothes. Forget yourself. Make love. Self-destruction is the only way to peace. — Yayoi Kusama

Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments. — Yayoi Kusama

There is no amount of darkness that can extinguish the inner light. The important thing is not to spend our lives trying to control the environment around us. The task is to control the environment within us. — Joan D. Chittister

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. — Emile Durkheim

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. — Wallace Stegner

You do design because you feel it inside; you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment. — Massimo Vignelli

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too. — Luther Standing Bear

Natural Environment Quotes

There are forces in nature called Love and Hate. The force of Love causes elements to be attracted to each other and to be built up into some particular form or person, and the force of Hate causes the decomposition of things. — Empedocles

Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity? — E. O. Wilson

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think. — Gregory Bateson

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

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. - Zeno of Elea

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. — Zeno of Elea

To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from. — Terry Tempest Williams

When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money. — Alanis Obomsawin

Human nature is a constant, and when you put that constant into different environments, it produces different behavior. That makes environment the independent variable. — Tim Urban

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for. — David Attenborough

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital. — Maurice Strong

Nature And Environment Quotes

The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life. — Rachel Carson

Good questions outrank easy answers. — Paul Samuelson

We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. — Albert Einstein

I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that. — Thomas A. Edison

We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved. — Paul Morley

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. — E. B. White

Lose yourself in nature and find peace - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lose yourself in nature and find peace — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love. — Stephen Jay Gould

Global warming is part of natural cycle and there's nothing we can actually do to stop these cycles. The world is now facing spending a vast amount of money in tax to try to solve a problem that doesn't actually exist. — David Bellamy

The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century. — Philip Shabecoff

Changing Environment Quotes

While other professions are concerned with changing the environment to suit the weakened body, chiropractic is concerned with strengthening the body to suit the environment. — B. J. Palmer

It may be said that the basic characteristic of human behavior in general is that humans personally influence their relations with the environment and through that environment personally change their behavior, subjugating it to their control. — Lev S. Vygotsky

You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they must protect them. — Wangari Maathai

Urbanization is not about simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of cities. More importantly, it's about a complete change from rural to urban style in terms of industry structure, employment, living environment and social security. — Li Keqiang

The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man's troubles are due to his environment, and that to change the man you have nothing to do but change his environment. That is a tragic fallacy. It overlooks the fact that it was in Paradise that man fell. — Martyn Lloyd-Jones

...climate change is accelerating. It threatens our well being, our security, and our economic development. It will lead to uncontrollable risks and dramatic damage if we do not take resolute countermeasures. — Angela Merkel

Well, I have my own article on where the heck is global warming?...The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't. — Kevin E. Trenberth

But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy...One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy any more. — Ottmar Edenhofer

Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts. — Jamais Cascio

Factory farming is terrible for the environment—not to mention that it's gross. The best thing you can do, if you think about it, is to become a vegetarian and just spread the word. The world would change for the better for animals, humans, and the planet if everyone took that step. — Christofer Drew

World Environment Quotes

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. — E. O. Wilson

Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden. — Dan Buettner

To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world - and at the same time that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are. — Marshall Berman

There are so many different walks of life, so many different personalities in the world. And no longer do you have to be a chameleon and try and adapt to that environment - you can truly be yourself. — Hope Solo

We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine. — Pierce Brosnan

There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence. — Deepak Chopra

The single thought that can empower us to empower the world: Mankind’s use of fossil fuels is supremely virtuous-because the human life is the standard of value, and because using fossil fuels transforms our environment to make it wonderful for human life. — Alex Epstein

I've always just felt a little out of place. I still feel out of place in San Francisco. It's this place where everything is going great, and everyone feels super optimistic about the world. It's a little different about how I grew up. — James David Vance

[On climate change:] What if it's all a hoax and we've created a better world for nothing? — Naomi Klein

Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity. — Eric Knight

Work Environment Quotes

The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post “Thou shalt not steal,” “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” and “Thou shalt not lie” in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment. — George Carlin

The best innovation comes from inclusive work environments that foster diverse ideas, nurture people with diverse talent and backgrounds, and create strong relationships with diverse communities. — Mark Parker

If happiness were a cake recipe, and ingredients included having food, shelter, healthcare, education, satisfying work, a good life partner, the most important ingredient would be where you live. — Dan Buettner

Work with the language of love, because that's what everyone wants for him, love will bring accountability, society will discipline itself if he already knows how he loves himself, the environment and god. — Joko Widodo

I generally leave the television on while I'm working. — Akira Toriyama

I was one of the more talented ones at the design firm I joined, so I conducted my work pretty shrewdly. — Akira Toriyama

I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense... symbolic of themselves. I often feel that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller - to find out how they are. — Richard Avedon

The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control. — Margaret J. Wheatley

The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education. — Maria Montessori

All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides. — Judith Anderson

Save The Environment Quotes

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants. — David Attenborough

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 — Chico Mendes

The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts — Aldo Leopold

Simple, easy actions can protect the health of our water resources and help save drinking water supplies. There is not one individual who cannot help to make a difference to the health of the environment — Ian Kiernan

Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option...they will become a necessity. — Fujio Cho

Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician. — Chris Hadfield

When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face — John Drinkwater

In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops. — Paul Brooks

Everyday, I have the choice to live a life of compassion that not only saves animals, but helps the environment. — Kat Von D

The human race will be the cancer of the planet. — Julian Huxley

Environmental Quotes

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves. — Rachel Carson

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children — Chief Seattle

Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong. — Lao Tzu

Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals that propel life. — Bruce H. Lipton

We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to exterminate. But we are also the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy. — Wallace Stegner

For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We have lost a sense of respect for the wild river, for the complex workings of a wetland, for the intricate web of life that water supports. — Sandra Postel

A man of wisdom delights in water. — Confucius

The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it. — Sylvia Earle

Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance. — Ban Ki-moon

As long as there are young men with the light of adventure in their eyes and a touch of wildness in their souls, rapids will be run. — Sigurd F. Olson

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More Environment Quotes

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns. If the environment is unaltered, similar behavior will reoccur. — Jacque Fresco

The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult. — Maria Montessori

Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children with persons both older and younger than themselves. — Urie Bronfenbrenner

Carefully observe oneself and one's situation, carefully observe others, and carefully observe one's environment. Consider fully, act decisively. — Kano Jigoro

There is a great sense of community within the Montessori classroom, where children of differing ages work together in an atmosphere of cooperation rather than competitiveness. There is respect for the environment and for the individuals within it, which comes through experience of freedom within the community. — Maria Montessori

All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential. — Harvey Milk

For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length--and there I travel looking, looking breathlessly. — Carlos Castaneda

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them. — W. Clement Stone

In Conclusion

Environmental quotes often emphasize the interconnectedness of all living things. They stress the need for harmony between humans and nature. These quotes encourage individuals to appreciate the beauty and value of the environment. They remind us that we have a shared responsibility to care for our planet and its resources. Quotes about the environment can motivate us to adopt sustainable practices and take steps towards a greener future.

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