Quotes About Our Natural Environment

Take care of the earth and she will take care of you.

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.

To waste and destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them.

We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.

If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come from the grass roots up, not from the top down.

What is the good of having a nice house without a decent planet to put it on?

Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time.

The earth is man’s only friend.

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.

The struggle to save the global environment is in one-way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies.