“Behold this compost! behold it well!”
Walt Whitman
RecyclingRenewal
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.
“It grows such sweet things out of such corruptions.”
Walt Whitman
RenewalNature's Cycles
“God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are to come after us as to us.”
John Ruskin
Future GenerationsStewardship
“Forget six counties overhung with smoke, forget the snorting steam and piston stroke.”
William Morris
PollutionIndustry
“The civilisation of ancient India had its birth in the forests.”
Rabindranath Tagore
ForestsCulture
“Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice.”
The Bible (Psalm 96:12)
JoyTrees
“The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.”
The Bible (Isaiah 55:12)
CelebrationNature
“Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures?”
The Bible (Ezekiel 34:18)
WasteGreed
“A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.”
The Bible (Proverbs 12:10)
Animal WelfareKindness
“Thou shalt not take the dam with the young: but thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, that it may be well with thee.”
The Bible (Deuteronomy 22:6-7)
SustainabilityWildlife
“For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.”
The Bible (Romans 8:22)
CreationSuffering
“Therefore shall the land mourn, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.”
The Bible (Hosea 4:3)
ExtinctionWarning
“Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns.”
The Bible (Matthew 6:26)
BirdsTrust
“Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.”
The Bible (Matthew 6:28)
FlowersSimplicity
“As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its colour or scent, so let a sage dwell in his village.”
Buddha (Dhammapada)
Leave No TraceGentleness
“As it is of no use, therefore no one will cut it down; and so it has lived to be this great age.”
Chuang Tzu
TreesPreservation
“What is all this juice and all this joy?”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
SpringJoy
“I found the poems in the fields, and only wrote them down.”
John Clare
InspirationCountryside
“Inclosure came and trampled on the grave of labour's rights and left the poor a slave.”
John Clare
Land RightsLoss
“All nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined.”
Gilbert White
BiodiversityObservation
“Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest.”
Charles Darwin
RainforestsWonder
“It seems sad that on the one hand such exquisite creatures should live out their lives and exhibit their charms only in these wild inhospitable regions.”
Alfred Russel Wallace
WildlifeWonder
“By ecology we mean the body of knowledge concerning the economy of nature.”
Ernst Haeckel
EcologyScience
“Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
NatureTruth
“Water is the driving force of all nature.”
Leonardo da Vinci
WaterNature