Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.
—Aldous Huxley
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain. —Margaret Mead
There is however, a true music of Nature—the song of the birds, the whisper of leaves, the ripple of waters upon a sandy shore, the wail of wind or sea. —Lubbock
Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery.
—Henry Miller
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it's raining, but the feel of being rained upon. —E.L. Doctorow
Even the lifelong traveler knows but an infinitesimal portion of the Earth's surface. Those who have written best about the land and its wild inhabitants...have often been stay-at-home naturalists...concentrating their attention and affection on a relatively small area.
—Edwin Way Teale
Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher. —William Wordsworth
The miracles of nature do not seem miracles because they are so common. If no one had ever seen a flower, even a dandelion would be the most startling event in the world.
— Anonymous
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. — Albert Einstein
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
— E E Cummings
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. — Errol Flynn
I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something. — Jackie Mason
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
— George Bernard Shaw
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children.
— John James Audubon
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in tune once more.
— John Burroughs
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
— George Washington Carver
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. — Jimmy Carter
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. — Kahlil Gibran
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them — Milne, Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh
In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks. —John Muir
You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature.
— William Rotsler
educed, until we have only one: to fight for survival.
— Morris K. Udall
You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder. — Unknown
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. —Winston Churchill
I went to a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically. —Steven Wright
I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early. —Charles Lamb
We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world. —Dan Quayle
Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
—Will Rogers
In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air. —Jonathan Raban
My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. —Pablo Picasso
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me. —Woody Allen
I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance. —Steven Wright
I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
—Steven Wright
A fool and his money are soon elected.
—Will Rogers
Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?
—George Bush
I have orders to be awakened at any time in the case of a national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. —Ronald Reagan
What is the good of having a nice house without a decent planet to put it on? —Henry David Thoreau
The variety of life in nature can be compared to a vast library of unread books, and the plundering of nature is comparable to the random discarding of whole volumes without having opened them, and learned from them. Our critical dependence on the great variety of nature for the progress we have already made has been amply documented. Indifference to the loss of species is, in effect, indifference to the future, and therefore a shameful carelessness about our children. —Peter Matthiessen
We consider species to be like a brick in the foundation of a building. You can probably lose one or two or a dozen bricks and still have a standing house. But by the time you've lost 20 per cent of species, you're going to destabilize the entire structure. That's the way ecosystems work.
—Donald Falk
For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal. —Thomas Jefferson
To save every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering. —Aldo Leopold
Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. —Thomas E. Lovejoy
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. —Robert Lynd
Without knowing it, we utilize hundreds of products each day that owe their origin to wild animals and plants. Indeed our welfare is intimately tied up with the welfare of wildlife. Well may conservationists proclaim that by saving the lives of wild species, we may be saving our own. —Norman Myers
The value of biodiversity is more than the sum of its parts. —Byran G. Norton
The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century. —Philip Shabecoff
What is the nature of a species that knowingly and without good reason exterminates another?
—George Small
Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready for the seed, you are never again going to be fully happy about the cities and towns that man carries like a crippling weight upon his back. —Gwyn Thomas
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed. —Wallace Stegner
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. —Sir John Lubbock
It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water-skis or a snorkel. —Bill Vaughan
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
—Tennessee Williams