quotes

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi

"Don't It Always Seem To Go That We Don't Know What We Got Til It's Gone.
They Pave Paradise and Put Up a Parking Lot." - Joni Mitchell

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."Edmund Burke

"One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands." Chrissie Hynde

"It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish."J.R.R. Tolkien

"Your descendants shall gather your fruits." Virgil

"Where is the place of knowledge and understanding...Man knoweth not the place thereof" Job

"The superior man seeks what is right; the inferior one, what is profitable."Confucius

"To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, that is to have succeeded."Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Peasant people ... don't have a chance to share in the riches that the planet can offer because some people are taking off so much of the pleasures of this world, and there's only so much to go around."
— Sister Dorothy Stang, an eco-activist nun from Dayton, Ohio, who in 2005 was murdered in the Brazilian Amazon

“I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? "Robert Redford

"The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done -- challenging us to a realization of a new humanity."
Jean Houston

“We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to sit.” David Suzuki

"It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is - something that we must hold in our arms and care for." Margaret Mead

"You have to hold yourself accountable for your actions, and that's how we're going to protect the Earth." Julia Butterfly Hill

"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment." Ansel Adams
"People tend to focus on the here and now. The problem is that, once global warming is something that most people can feel in the course of their daily lives, it will be too late to prevent much larger, potentially catastrophic changes." Elizabeth Kolbert

"To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from." Terry Tempest Williams

"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands." Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923

"There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed." Mohandas K. Gandhi

"There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all." Robert Orben

"It wasn't the Exxon Valdez captain's driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill. It was yours." Greenpeace advertisement, New York Times, 25 February 1990

"Modern technology, Owes ecology, An apology." Alan M. Eddison

"Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find." Quoted in Time

"Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites." William Ruckelshaus

"Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us." Henrik Tikkanen

"We never know the worth of water till the well is dry." Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."
Native American Proverb

"The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun." Ralph Nader

"For 200 years we've been conquering Nature. Now we're beating it to death." Tom McMillan

"When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves." David Orr

"Take nothing but pictures.
Leave nothing but footprints.
Kill nothing but time."
Motto of the Baltimore Grotto, a caving society