“Blanched Sun, - blighted grass, - blinded man.”
John Ruskin
PollutionWarning
Environmental Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · ENVIRONMENTAL
Environmental Quotes
Read 200 of the best environmental quotes about nature, conservation, pollution and protecting the planet, from John Muir, Thoreau, Roosevelt and more.
“O if we but knew what we do when we delve or hew - hack and rack the growing green!”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
DeforestationTrees
“And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; and wears man's smudge and shares man's smell.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
IndustryHuman Impact
“Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.”
William Wordsworth
Love Of NatureTrust
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.”
William Blake
TreesPerspective
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”
William Shakespeare
ConnectionHumanity
“And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.”
The Bible (Genesis 2:15)
StewardshipCare
“The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.”
The Bible (Psalm 24:1)
EarthFaith
“The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.”
The Bible (Leviticus 25:23)
LandStewardship
“So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are.”
The Bible (Numbers 35:33)
PollutionResponsibility
“Thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them.”
The Bible (Deuteronomy 20:19)
TreesProtection
“But when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.”
The Bible (Jeremiah 2:7)
PollutionWarning
“The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof.”
The Bible (Isaiah 24:5)
PollutionHuman Impact
“And shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.”
The Bible (Revelation 11:18)
ConsequencesJustice
“Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.”
The Bible (Job 12:8)
Learning From NatureWisdom
“The Master angled, but did not use a net. He shot, but not at birds perching.”
Confucius
Sustainable LivingFairness
“If the axes and bills enter the hill-forests only at the proper time, the wood will be more than can be used.”
Mencius
Sustainable ForestryBalance
“The trees of the Niu mountain were once beautiful. Being situated, however, in the borders of a large State, they were hewn down with axes and bills - and could they retain their beauty?”
Mencius
DeforestationLoss
“Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven.”
Lao Tzu
HarmonyNature
“How innocent, how blessed, how truly delightful would life be, if we were to covet nothing but what is to be found upon the face of the earth.”
Pliny the Elder
Simple LivingMining
“The earth herself, without compulsion, untouched by the hoe or plough, gave all things freely.”
Ovid
AbundanceGolden Age
“You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she will ever hurry back.”
Horace
ResilienceNature
“Praised be thou, my Lord, for our sister Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us.”
Francis of Assisi
Mother EarthGratitude
“In this great chain of causes and effects, no single fact can be considered in isolation.”
Alexander von Humboldt
EcologyConnection
“It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth.”
Charles Darwin
BiodiversityWonder