Quotable Quotes: Environment Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

Mahatma Gandhi ----------What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another. Mahatma Gandhi ------------------We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

------------------If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. Rainer Maria Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke's the Book of Hours: A New Translation with Commentary -------------------What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? Henry David Thoreau, Familiar Letters ----------------God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation. Francis Bacon ------------Respect the old and cherish the young. Even insects, grass and trees you must not hurt. -Attr. Ko Hung (284-363 AD) (Confucian-Taoist) ---------Nature understands her business better than we do. -Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) --------"We cannot command Nature except by obeying her." Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -----------------Nature uses as little as possible of anything. Johannes Keppler (1571-1630) -------------------Weed - a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. Ralph Waldo Emmerson (1803-1882) -----------------If spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change! ----------Henry Longfellow (1807-1882) Spring - An experience in immortality. Henry D. Thoreau (1817-1862) ---------Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance. John Ruskin (1819-1900) -------------------

Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) ----------Bear in mind that the children of life are the children of joy; that the lower animals are only unhappy when made so by man; that man alone of all the creatures, has "found out many inventions", the chief of which appears to be the art of makind himself miserable, and of seeing all Nature stained with that dark and hateful colour. W.H.Hudson (1841-1922) -----------...every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures. Ellen Glasgow (1874-1945) ---The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man. Carl Jung (1875-1961) -------Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools. Franklin D.Rooselvelt (1882-1945) ------------Maybe this world is another planet's Hell. Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) ----------Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital. Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) -------Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life. Elizabeth Goudge (1900-1984) Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain. Margaret Mead (1901-1978) We must develop a better sense of responsibilty towards our total environment ... this better sense cannot any longer exclude from revision the staples of our diet. Jon Wynne-Tyson (1924- ) But I think the most harmful change brought about by Victorian science in our attitude to nature lies in the demand that our relation with it must be purposive, industrious, always seeking greater knowledge. John Fowles (1926- ) An act of violence against nature should be judged as severely as that against society or another person. The turning over of a stone, the unnecessary felling of a tree, or the slaughter of an

animal is a crime to be weighed in judgement against the wants and needs of the person and the values of his society. Dr.Michael W.Fox (1937 - ) -----I would not be comfortable appearing in a country where they have permitted the destruction of such beautiful and intelligent animals. (after her 1978 cancellation of a tour of Japan because of their dolphin kill. Olivia Newton-John (1948- ) --------Despite one or two minority appeals our society is not outraged at man's unremitting use of the animal world. Ecologists and environmentalists may talk of "ecological consciousness" or "environmental responsibility" but seldom, if ever, is this responsibility articulated towards other non-human species in particular. Andrew Linzey (1952- ) "The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it." - World Environment Day Quotes by Chinese Proverb -------From a distance the world looks blue and green, and the snow-capped mountains white. From a distance the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a distance, there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. It's the voice of hope, it's the voice of peace, it's the voice of every man - from the lyrics for 'From A Distance' (Bette Midler) ---------

There is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more - George Gordon Byron, 1788-1824 April hath put a spirit of youth in everything - William Shakespeare The earth has music for those who listen - William Shakespeare Come forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher - William Wordsworth (1770-1850) The poetry of the earth is never dead - John Keats Nature always tends to act in the simplest way - Bernoulli Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience - Ralph Waldo Emerson I am two with nature - Woody Allen The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature - Anne Frank

I think that I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a tree

- (Alfred) Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918) ------------------

Lose yourself in nature and find peace

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) -------Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own - Charles Dickens ----------A thing of beauty is a joy forever - John Keats --------Nature is the art of God - Dante Alighieri Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art - Cicero For art may err, but nature cannot miss - John Dryden Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it Confucius This curious world which we inhabit is more wonderful than it is convenient, more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used - Henry David Thoreau, American writer (1817-1862) There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore;

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free

- Charles Dickens ---------------------

Animals are such agreeable friends; they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms
- George Eliot --------------

on high o'er vales and hills. When all at daffodil; beside the lake, beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850) --------

I wandered lonely as a cloud, that floats once I saw a crowd, a host, of golden

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) -----------

The Earth laughs in flowers

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) --------------------

When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place,

You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face - John Drinkwater