“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.”
John Muir
MountainsPeace
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.
“Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away.”
John Muir
TreesProtection
“Keep close to Nature's heart, and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”
John Muir
WildernessRenewal
“One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature.”
John Muir
AbundanceNature
“The battle for conservation will go on endlessly. It is part of the universal warfare between right and wrong.”
John Muir
ConservationActivism
“Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.”
Henry David Thoreau
Wild PlacesCommunity
“A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it.”
Henry David Thoreau
WetlandsForests
“Each town should have a park, or rather a primitive forest, of five hundred or a thousand acres.”
Henry David Thoreau
ParksUrban Nature
“The earth I tread on is not a dead, inert mass. It is a body, has a spirit, is organic.”
Henry David Thoreau
Living EarthRespect
“Earth laughs in flowers, to see her boastful boys earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
HumilityOwnership
“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PlantsPerspective
“The earth is fast becoming an unfit home for its noblest inhabitant.”
George Perkins Marsh
WarningHuman Impact
“Of all organic beings, man alone is to be regarded as essentially a destructive power.”
George Perkins Marsh
Human ImpactResponsibility
“The first great fact about conservation is that it stands for development.”
Gifford Pinchot
ConservationProgress
“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.”
Theodore Roosevelt
HeritageFuture Generations
“Short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things.”
Theodore Roosevelt
WildlifeGreed
“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
SoilForests
“The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.”
Havelock Ellis
Human GreedWarning
“To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.”
John Burroughs
Simple LivingNature
“Move along these shades in gentleness of heart; with gentle hand touch - for there is a spirit in the woods.”
William Wordsworth
RespectForests
“He prayeth well, who loveth well both man and bird and beast.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
CompassionWildlife
“A Robin Red breast in a Cage puts all Heaven in a Rage.”
William Blake
Animal WelfareFreedom
“I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union.”
Robert Burns
Human ImpactWildlife
“The poplars are felled, farewell to the shade, and the whispering sound of the cool colonnade!”
William Cowper
DeforestationLoss
“God made the country, and man made the town.”
William Cowper
CountrysideCities