Quotes about Environment

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!

A child doesn't say, "What's wrong with this environment where I am growing up?" They think, What's wrong with me?

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. The function of the artist is the mythologization of the environment and the world.

Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.

Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles.

My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

We haven't accepted we can't really believe that the most characteristic product of our age of scientific miracles is junk, but that is so. And we still think and behave as though we face an unspoiled continent, with thousands of acres of living space for every man. We still sing "America the Beautiful" as though we had not created in it, by strenuous effort, at great expense, and with dauntless self-praise, an unprecedented ugliness.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.