“The mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.”
John Muir
National ParksWilderness
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.
“The whole wilderness in unity and interrelation is alive and familiar.”
John Muir
EcologyWilderness
“I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree.”
Henry David Thoreau
TreesDevotion
“The pine is no more lumber than man is, and to be made into boards and houses is no more its true and highest use than the truest use of a man is to be cut down and made into manure.”
Henry David Thoreau
TreesRespect For Life
“Nature is loved by what is best in us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love Of NatureCharacter
“The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
NatureBalance
“The longer I live the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.”
John Burroughs
WonderBeauty
“Forestry is handling trees so that one generation after another shall get the most good out of them.”
Gifford Pinchot
Sustainable ForestryFuture Generations
“The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem, it will avail us little to solve all others.”
Theodore Roosevelt
ConservationPriorities
“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”
John Ruskin
WeatherPositivity
“Water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
WaterScarcity
“I would not enter on my list of friends the man who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.”
William Cowper
Kindness To AnimalsCompassion
“It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organised creatures.”
Charles Darwin
EarthwormsSoil
“Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker; everything degenerates in the hands of man.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Human ImpactNature
“Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
Rabindranath Tagore
TreesPoetry
“The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills.”
Confucius
WaterMountains
“If close nets are not allowed to enter the pools and ponds, the fishes and turtles will be more than can be consumed.”
Mencius
Sustainable FishingOceans
“Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow, hair to protect them from wind and cold. This is the real nature of horses. Palatial dwellings are of no use to them.”
Chuang Tzu
AnimalsNatural Living
“He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills. By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation.”
The Bible (Psalm 104:10-12)
WaterWildlife
“The trees of the Lord are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted.”
The Bible (Psalm 104:16)
TreesCreation
“To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man.”
The Bible (Job 38:26)
WildernessRain
“And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature.”
The Bible (Genesis 9:12)
RainbowAll Life
“Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place.”
The Bible (Isaiah 5:8)
Urban SprawlGreed
“All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 1:7)
Water CycleOceans
“And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons; and also much cattle?”
The Bible (Jonah 4:11)
AnimalsCompassion