170 Save Nature Quotes

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We are not apart from nature, we are a part of nature. And to betray nature is to betray us. To save nature is to save us. — Prince Ea

My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature. - Jane Goodall

My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature. — Jane Goodall

Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails. — George Carlin

For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it. — Jacques Yves Cousteau

We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature. — Yvon Chouinard

It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it. — Edward Abbey

We must find our way back to true nature. We must set ourselves to the task of revitalizing the earth. Regreening the earth, sowing seeds in the desert--that is the path society must follow. — Masanobu Fukuoka

If we save our wild places, we will ultimately save ourselves. — Steve Irwin

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. — Terence McKenna

In wildness is the preservation of the world. — Henry David Thoreau

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future. — Wallace Stegner

The children and nature movement is fueled by this fundamental idea: the child in nature is an endangered species, and the health of children and the health of the Earth are inseparable. — Richard Louv

With nature's help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining. — Hildegard of Bingen

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. — Wendell Berry

Short Save Nature Quotes

  • Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. — Gary Snyder
  • Nurture the spontaneous peaceful life. — Lao Tzu
  • Choose only one master - Nature. — Rembrandt
  • Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price — Ansel Adams
  • You are a guest of nature - behave. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser
  • The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans. — Jim Fowler
  • Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more. — Vincent Van Gogh
  • Lose yourself in nature and find peace — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it. — Barry Commoner
  • Nature is God's greatest evangelist. — Jonathan Edwards

Save Nature Image Quotes

Save nature quote Be patient with yourself, nothing in nature blooms all year.
Be patient with yourself, nothing in nature blooms all year.

Save The Environment Quotes

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

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty. — John Ruskin

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. — Thomas Fuller

Save nature quote The axe forgets what the tree remembers.
The axe forgets what the tree remembers.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. — Ansel Adams

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

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

Save nature quote Rushing never saved the time that planning did.
Rushing never saved the time that planning did.

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

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

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

Protect Nature Quotes

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

In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law. — Baron de Montesquieu

The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun. — Napoleon Hill

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

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed. — Mahatma Gandhi

Save nature quote No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it. — David Suzuki

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. — Umberto Eco

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard. — Luther Standing Bear

Luxurious food and drinks, in no way protect you from harm. Wealth beyond what is natural, is no more use than an overflowing container. Real value is not generated by theaters, and baths, perfumes or ointments, but by philosophy. — Epicurus

Save The Planet Quotes

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

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands. — Barack Obama

I believe that Elon Musk understands this important dynamic. For goodness sake, one of his top priorities is saving the planet. — Cathie Wood

Save nature quote The greatest oak was once a little nut who held her ground.
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held her ground.

Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species. — Chris Hedges

Contrary to the rumours you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-el, to save the planet Earth. — Barack Obama

Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves. — Michael Crichton

Save nature quote Each time you read a book, a tree smiles knowing there's life after death.
Each time you read a book, a tree smiles knowing there's life after death.

Advanced Courses [in Scientology] are the most valuable service on the planet. Life insurance, houses, cars, stocks, bonds, college savings, all are transitory and impermanent... There is nothing to compare with Advanced Courses. They are infinitely valuable and transcend time itself. — L. Ron Hubbard

If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much. — James H. Cone

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

Eating a vegetarian diet can contribute more to saving ourselves and the planet than any other single effort. — Sharon Gannon

Save Earth Quotes

I don’t know how to save the world. I don’t have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earth’s inhabitants, none of us will survive—nor will we deserve to. — Leonard Peltier

You have one business on earth – to save souls. - John Wesley

You have one business on earth – to save souls. — John Wesley

Remember that vision on the Mount of Transfiguration; and let it be ours, even in the glare of earthly joys and brightnesses, to lift up our eyes, like those wondering three, and see no man any more, save Jesus only. — Alexander Maclaren

Save nature quote Be still, and the earth will speak to you.
Be still, and the earth will speak to you.

In the New Testament grace means God's love in action towards men who merited the opposite of love. Grace means God moving heaven and earth to save sinners who could not lift a finger to save themselves. — J. I. Packer

Because in no other person but the historic Jesus of Nazareth has God become man and lived a human life on earth, died to bear the penalty of our sins, and been raised from death and exalted to glory, there is no other Savior, for there is no other person who is qualified to save. — John Stott

Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake.... During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast. — William Rathje

Save nature quote If nothing saves us from death, may love at least save us from life.
If nothing saves us from death, may love at least save us from life.

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man. — Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them. — Chief Seattle

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

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

Save Mother Earth Quotes

The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children — Paul R. Ehrlich

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

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

Save nature quote No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one way. We ourselves must walk the path.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one way. We ourselves must walk the path.

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

Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature. — David Foreman

Save nature quote We often forget that we are nature. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we
We often forget that we are nature. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we have lost our connection to ourselves.

Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth. — Ian McHarg

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. — Rene Dubos

Forests are the lungs of our land. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. — Jacques Barzun

Save Our Planet Quotes

I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer. — Denis Hayes

Real change will only happen when we fall in love with our planet. Only love can show us how to live in harmony with nature and with each other and save us from the devastating effects of environmental destruction and climate change — Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Any scientist can testify that a dead ocean means a dead planet .... No national law, no national precautions can save the planet. The ocean, more than any other part of our planet, ... is a classic example of the absolute need for international global action. — Thor Heyerdahl

What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return — Barack Obama

If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of heroic effort, in which all types of people join forces for the common good — George Meyer

Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe — Barack Obama

We know that when push comes to shove, [we can] drive ourselves to save our planet. — Jeff Corwin

The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril — Barack Obama

Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal. — Ban Ki-moon

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. — Carl Sagan

Nature Conservation Quotes

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 purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time. — Gifford Pinchot

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. — John Muir

Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die. - Gil Scott-Heron

Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die. — Gil Scott-Heron

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. — Dr. Seuss

The conservative "thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politics as a revolutionary instrument for transforming society and even transforming human nature. In his march toward Utopia, the ideologue is merciless. — Russell Kirk

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

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

The Founders believed, and the Conservative agrees, in the dignity of the individual; that we, as human beings, have a right to live, live freely, and pursue that which motivates us not because man or some government says so, but because these are God-given natural rights. — Mark Levin

Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; it is the most horrid blasphemy. It is flinging God's gifts into His face, as if they were of no worth beyond that assigned to them by our destruction of them. — Wendell Berry

Saving The Earth Quotes

I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth. — John Ruskin

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. — Abraham Lincoln

You are not saved for the sole purpose of going to heaven; you are saved to finish your assignment on earth — Myles Munroe

Jesus first of all, loves His Father in heaven and would never compromise the message that sinners must be delivered or be damned. That is the reason Jesus came to earth-to save sinners. — Kirk Cameron

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another. — Mahatma Gandhi

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life. — Rene Dubos

We owe our lives to the sun... How is it, then, that we feel no gratitude? — Lewis Thomas

The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory. — Rene Dubos

Save The World Quotes

Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone. - David Livingstone

Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone. — David Livingstone

If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution. — Albert Einstein

If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life. — Igor Sikorsky

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does. - David Carson

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does. — David Carson

One day, through the Rosary and the Scapular, Our Lady will save the world. - Saint Dominic

One day, through the Rosary and the Scapular, Our Lady will save the world. — Saint Dominic

Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world. — Vandana Shiva

Imagine a world where children were fed tasty and nutritious, real food at school from the age of 4 to 18. A world where every child was educated about how amazing food is, where it comes from, how it affects the body and how it can save their lives. — Jamie Oliver

If there were one million families praying the Rosary every day, the entire world would be saved. — Pope Pius X

I write ... in order to help ensure that the teeming millions in the New World, for whose sins Christ gave His life, do not continue to die in ignorance, but rather are brought to knowledge of God and thereby saved. — Bartolome de las Casas

The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it. — Barbara Brown Taylor

Love Nature Quotes

Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power. — Dick Gregory

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. - Henry David Thoreau

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. — Henry David Thoreau

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. — George Washington Carver

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts

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

I love to be clean. I wear the same things, all of my clothes pretty much look the same. I'm a plain and simple type of guy. I don't really do a lotta busy colors and things of that nature. I feel like less is more. — Kevin Gates

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. — David Frost

And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something. — Mother Teresa

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. — Charles Darwin

There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them. — Jo Walton

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More Save Nature Quotes

I'm quite mad by nature, and it's my craziness that has saved me from extinction. — Marco Pantani

Because the relationship between self and world is reciprocal, it is not a matter of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the Earth, the Earth heals us. No need to wait. As we care enough to take risks, we loosen the grip of ego and begin to come home to our true nature. — Joanna Macy

If we pursue the environmental goal not of protecting the environment or saving the planet from human beings but of improving our environment or improving our world for human beings, we can have it all – the best of what exists naturally and the best of what we can create – including the time and ability to enjoy what exists naturally. — Alex Epstein

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

If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us. — David Suzuki

We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature. — Naomi Klein

And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness, Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will. — Joseph Glanvill

Mother Nature's ruthless to the weak, but isn't arbitrary cruel or negative. Mother Nature saves aggression for extreme situations, and instead uses consistent leadership--to help keep things running smoothly. Mother nature doesn't rule by fear and anger, but by calm strength and assertiveness. — Cesar Millan

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from — Daphne Zuniga

When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving' the suicidal is based on a hair-raising misapprehension of the nature of existence. — Peter Wessel Zapffe

Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale. — Lauren DeStefano

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature. — Charles Alexander Eastman

My mother understood human nature better and never chided. She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own foolishness or vice by someone else's efforts or protests, but only by the use of his own will. — Nikola Tesla

Wilderness, to me, is a spiritual necessity. The mysterious spiritual experience of being close to natural restored my soul [after the death of his son]. My experience reinforced by dedication to use the art of photography as an inspiration for others to work together to save nature's places of spiritual sanctuary for future generations. — Clyde Butcher

Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

If you are without bread, how much wisdom can you boast and of what real utility are your talents, if you cannot procure for yourselves and save against a day of scarcity those substances designed to sustain your natural lives? — Brigham Young

To reconnect with nature is key if we want to save the planet. — Jane Goodall

A covenant not to defend myself from force by force is always void. For ... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself. For the right men have by Nature to protect themselves, when none else can protect them, can by no Covenant be relinquished. ... [The right] to defend ourselves [is the] summe of the Right of Nature. — Thomas Hobbes

God cannot save them from fools. — John Muir

It's in the nature of stock markets to go way down from time to time. There's no system to avoid bad markets. You can't do it unless you try to time the market, which is a seriously dumb thing to do. Conservative investing with steady savings without expecting miracles is the way to go. — Charlie Munger

Burning natural gas will not save us from climate change. It's the same as burning any other carbon-based fuel. — Mark Ruffalo

What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself. — Mollie Beattie

We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy. — Wallace Stegner

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes. — Douglas Adams

We must not only protect the country side and save it from destruction, we must restore what has been destroyed and salvage the beauty and charm of our cities ... Once our natural splendor is destroyed, it can never be recaptured. And once man can no longer walk with beauty or wonder at nature, his spirit will wither and his sustenance be wasted. — Lyndon B. Johnson

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