“Agriculture is the mother and nurse of the other arts.”
Xenophon
FarmingCivilisation
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 enjoyment of scenery employs the mind without fatigue and yet exercises it, tranquilizes it and yet enlivens it.”
Frederick Law Olmsted
ParksWellbeing
“The occasional contemplation of natural scenes of an impressive character is favorable to the health and vigor of men.”
Frederick Law Olmsted
HealthGreen Spaces
“Within National Parks is room - glorious room - room in which to find ourselves, in which to think and hope, to dream and plan, to rest and resolve.”
Enos Mills
National ParksRenewal
“Nature considered rationally is a unity in diversity of phenomena.”
Alexander von Humboldt
UnityDiversity
“The most insignificant insects and reptiles are of much more consequence, and have much more influence in the economy of nature, than the incurious are aware of.”
Gilbert White
InsectsEcology
“No plot so narrow, be but Nature there, no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Small SpacesNature
“Luxurious man, to bring his vice in use, did after him the world seduce.”
Andrew Marvell
GreedHuman Impact
“Would, then, my noble master please to grant my highest wishes, he'll shade my banks wi' tow'ring trees.”
Robert Burns
RiversTrees
“O, what pity is it that he had not so trimm'd and dress'd his land as we this garden!”
William Shakespeare
GardensCare
“Our vineyards, fallows, meads and hedges, defective in their natures, grow to wildness.”
William Shakespeare
NeglectLand
“Praised be my Lord for Sister Moon and the stars, in the heavens thou hast made them clear and precious and fair.”
Francis of Assisi
MoonStars
“Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water.”
The Bible (Psalm 65:9)
RainRivers
“There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise: the ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer.”
The Bible (Proverbs 30:24-25)
Small CreaturesWisdom
“Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?”
The Bible (Job 39:26)
BirdsWonder
“The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain.”
The Bible (Isaiah 11:6-9)
PeaceWildlife
“Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth. He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.”
The Bible (Psalm 147:8-9)
ProvisionAnimals
“Every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food.”
The Bible (Genesis 2:9)
TreesBeauty
“Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice. Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field.”
The Bible (Joel 2:21-22)
HopeRestoration
“For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.”
The Bible (Mark 4:28)
GrowthPatience
“Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars: beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl.”
The Bible (Psalm 148:9-10)
CreationBiodiversity
“But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land.”
The Bible (Leviticus 25:4)
Soil HealthRest
“And every thing shall live whither the river cometh.”
The Bible (Ezekiel 47:9)
RiversLife
“I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water.”
The Bible (Isaiah 41:18)
WaterRestoration
“O Lord, thou preservest man and beast.”
The Bible (Psalm 36:6)
All LifeProtection