The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it - Simon Jenkins, Chair, National Trust (January 2013)
What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat - Satish Kumar, ecological campaigner (2008)
The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts - Aldo Leopold
To care for the natural world is the most effective insurance policy we can have - Phil Harding (2011)
By failing to recognise the reality of our absolute reliance on ecosystem services, many do not realise that it is in our self-interest to preserve them - Executive Summary 'Valuing our life support systems', Natural Capital Initiative (2009)
Whatever we do to nature, we do to ourselves - Kurt Heidinger
We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible - Wangari Maathai (1940 - 2011), environmental activist, first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004
To halt the decline of an ecosystem, it is necessary to think like an ecosystem - Douglas Wheeler
...we depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused - Satish Kumar (ecological campaigner, writing in National Trust Magazine, Spring 2010)
...the future of mankind can be assured only if we rediscover ways in which to live as a part of nature, not apart from her - HRH The Prince of Wales addressing UN climate conference COP15, Copenhagen (December 2009)
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment - Margaret Mead
Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle - Pope John Paul II
Wildlife of the world is disappearing... simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect - HRH Prince Philip
If it's unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature - Mollie Beattie, Director, US Fish and Wildlife Service 1993-1996
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites - William Ruckelshaus
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
Just as our banking sector is struggling with its debts - and paradoxically also facing calls for a return to so-called "old-fashioned," traditional banking - so Nature's life-support systems are failing to cope with the debts we have built up there too. So, if we don't face up to this, then Nature, the biggest bank of all, could go bust - HRH The Prince of Wales, The Richard Dimbleby Lecture "Facing the Future" (8 July 2009)
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defence of our resources is just as important as defence abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? - Robert Redford
The conservation of nature, the proper care for the human environment and a general concern for the long-term future of the whole of our planet are absolutely vital if future generations are to have a chance to enjoy their existence on this earth - HRH Prince Philip
At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rainforest. Now I realise I am fighting for humanity - Chico Mendes, Rubber tappers' leader
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap - Kurt Vonnegut Jnr
...our culture's frenzied and mindless assault on the last shreds of nature may not be the wisest course... We're melting the ice caps, ripping up the rainforest, and vacuuming the oceans of everything that wriggles - George Meyer, writer for The Simpsons (BBC Green Room, 3 August 2006)
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal - Edward Wilson
Forests precede civilizations, deserts follow - unattributable
As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love and compassion - Richard Gere
Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere - Richard Bach
We define our landscapes as much as they define us - unattributable
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen - Henry David Thoreau, American writer (1817-1862)
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 - Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die - Gil Stern
Activities that destroy ecosystems always destroy jobs - unattributable
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment - Ansel Adams, US photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
The preservation of biodiversity is not just a job for governments. International and non-governmental organisations, the private sector and each and every individual have a role to play in changing entrenched outlooks and ending destructive patterns of behaviour - Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General on the 2003 International Day of Biological Diversity
Our environment is like a patchwork quilt. Each "patch" is dependent on those around it. If one part unravels, it affects the rest - Hemeon
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative - H G Wells
If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Till now man has been up against nature, from now on he will be up against his own nature - Dennis Gabor
The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives - Indian proverb
We all live downstream - David Suzuki
Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find - Quoted in Time magazine
Modern technology owes ecology an apology - Alan M Eddison
The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences - Frank Herbert
Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price - Ansel Adams, US photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
The environment is not as 'cheap as chips', it's priceless and we all have a part to play in protecting it - David Dickinson (TV celebrity)
Only when the last tree is cut, only when the last river is polluted, only when the last fish is caught, will they realise that you can't eat money - Native American proverb
Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we - Michel de Montaigne
But while nature has considerable resilience, there is a limit to how far that resilience can be stretched. No one knows how close to the limit we are getting. The darker it gets, the faster we're driving - Douglas Adams (author)
Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially - E B White
The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value - Theodore Roosevelt (US President 1901-1909)
Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues - Jim Hightower, organic campaigner (USA)
If we do not permit the Earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food either - Joseph Woodkrutch
In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we have been taught - Baba Dioum
To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase it's usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very properity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed - Theodore Roosevelt
If you mess with something long enough, it will break - Schmidt's Law
Beauty dies where litter lies - unattributable
And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: "Look at this Godawful mess!" - Art Buchwald
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
Nature is what wins in the end - Abby Adams (1902-1984)
Miscellaneous
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river - Ross Perot
Our relationship with Nature... best way of forging this relationship... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth - Satish Kumar, ecological campaigner (2008)
The surrounding environment is the best erudite master to teach us the fundamental laws of nature and the basics of living life - Anuj Somany
Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street - William Blake
Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them - Mark Twain
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe - Carl Sagan
Don't count the seeds in an apple, count the apples in a seed! - Aine Belton
Your descendants shall gather your fruits - Virgil
I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God - Alan Hovhaness
Men argue; nature acts - Voltaire
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished - Lao Tzu
It seems to me that we all look at nature too much, and live with her too little - Oscar Wilde
Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way - Vandana Shiva
Those who love and free nature are never alone - Rachel Carson
When you realise how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky - Buddha
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled - Richard Feynman
Anywhere is paradise; it's up to you - unattributable
What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat - Satish Kumar, ecological campaigner (2008)
The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts - Aldo Leopold
To care for the natural world is the most effective insurance policy we can have - Phil Harding (2011)
By failing to recognise the reality of our absolute reliance on ecosystem services, many do not realise that it is in our self-interest to preserve them - Executive Summary 'Valuing our life support systems', Natural Capital Initiative (2009)
Whatever we do to nature, we do to ourselves - Kurt Heidinger
We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible - Wangari Maathai (1940 - 2011), environmental activist, first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004
To halt the decline of an ecosystem, it is necessary to think like an ecosystem - Douglas Wheeler
...we depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused - Satish Kumar (ecological campaigner, writing in National Trust Magazine, Spring 2010)
...the future of mankind can be assured only if we rediscover ways in which to live as a part of nature, not apart from her - HRH The Prince of Wales addressing UN climate conference COP15, Copenhagen (December 2009)
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment - Margaret Mead
Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle - Pope John Paul II
Wildlife of the world is disappearing... simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect - HRH Prince Philip
If it's unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature - Mollie Beattie, Director, US Fish and Wildlife Service 1993-1996
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites - William Ruckelshaus
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
Just as our banking sector is struggling with its debts - and paradoxically also facing calls for a return to so-called "old-fashioned," traditional banking - so Nature's life-support systems are failing to cope with the debts we have built up there too. So, if we don't face up to this, then Nature, the biggest bank of all, could go bust - HRH The Prince of Wales, The Richard Dimbleby Lecture "Facing the Future" (8 July 2009)
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defence of our resources is just as important as defence abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? - Robert Redford
The conservation of nature, the proper care for the human environment and a general concern for the long-term future of the whole of our planet are absolutely vital if future generations are to have a chance to enjoy their existence on this earth - HRH Prince Philip
At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rainforest. Now I realise I am fighting for humanity - Chico Mendes, Rubber tappers' leader
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap - Kurt Vonnegut Jnr
...our culture's frenzied and mindless assault on the last shreds of nature may not be the wisest course... We're melting the ice caps, ripping up the rainforest, and vacuuming the oceans of everything that wriggles - George Meyer, writer for The Simpsons (BBC Green Room, 3 August 2006)
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal - Edward Wilson
Forests precede civilizations, deserts follow - unattributable
As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love and compassion - Richard Gere
Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere - Richard Bach
We define our landscapes as much as they define us - unattributable
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen - Henry David Thoreau, American writer (1817-1862)
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 - Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die - Gil Stern
Activities that destroy ecosystems always destroy jobs - unattributable
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment - Ansel Adams, US photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
The preservation of biodiversity is not just a job for governments. International and non-governmental organisations, the private sector and each and every individual have a role to play in changing entrenched outlooks and ending destructive patterns of behaviour - Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General on the 2003 International Day of Biological Diversity
Our environment is like a patchwork quilt. Each "patch" is dependent on those around it. If one part unravels, it affects the rest - Hemeon
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative - H G Wells
If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Till now man has been up against nature, from now on he will be up against his own nature - Dennis Gabor
The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives - Indian proverb
We all live downstream - David Suzuki
Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find - Quoted in Time magazine
Modern technology owes ecology an apology - Alan M Eddison
The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences - Frank Herbert
Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price - Ansel Adams, US photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
The environment is not as 'cheap as chips', it's priceless and we all have a part to play in protecting it - David Dickinson (TV celebrity)
Only when the last tree is cut, only when the last river is polluted, only when the last fish is caught, will they realise that you can't eat money - Native American proverb
Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we - Michel de Montaigne
But while nature has considerable resilience, there is a limit to how far that resilience can be stretched. No one knows how close to the limit we are getting. The darker it gets, the faster we're driving - Douglas Adams (author)
Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially - E B White
The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value - Theodore Roosevelt (US President 1901-1909)
Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues - Jim Hightower, organic campaigner (USA)
If we do not permit the Earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food either - Joseph Woodkrutch
In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we have been taught - Baba Dioum
To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase it's usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very properity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed - Theodore Roosevelt
If you mess with something long enough, it will break - Schmidt's Law
Beauty dies where litter lies - unattributable
And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: "Look at this Godawful mess!" - Art Buchwald
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
Nature is what wins in the end - Abby Adams (1902-1984)
Miscellaneous
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river - Ross Perot
Our relationship with Nature... best way of forging this relationship... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth - Satish Kumar, ecological campaigner (2008)
The surrounding environment is the best erudite master to teach us the fundamental laws of nature and the basics of living life - Anuj Somany
Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street - William Blake
Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them - Mark Twain
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe - Carl Sagan
Don't count the seeds in an apple, count the apples in a seed! - Aine Belton
Your descendants shall gather your fruits - Virgil
I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God - Alan Hovhaness
Men argue; nature acts - Voltaire
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished - Lao Tzu
It seems to me that we all look at nature too much, and live with her too little - Oscar Wilde
Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way - Vandana Shiva
Those who love and free nature are never alone - Rachel Carson
When you realise how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky - Buddha
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled - Richard Feynman
Anywhere is paradise; it's up to you - unattributable
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