This is
the fourth installment in my series of posts on Great Quotations.
“The
care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most
pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its
renewal is our only legitimate hope for survival.”
– Wendell Berry
“What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a
tolerable planet to put it on?”
– Henry David Thoreau
“In Wildness is the preservation of the world.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Those
who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will
endure as life lasts.”
– Rachel Carson
“I
would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time
proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and
respecting her seniority.”
– E.B. White
“One
of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature
shall not be broken.”
– Leo Tolstoy
“The
major problems in the world are the result of the differences between the way
nature works and the way people think.”
– Gregory Bateson
“The
creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.”
– Gregory Bateson
“If
future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we
must leave them something more than the miracles of technology. We must leave
them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got
through with it.”
– Lyndon B. Johnson
“We should be using Nature’s inexhaustible
sources of energy—sun, wind, and tide. I’d put my money on the sun and solar
energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal
run out before we tackle that.”
– Thomas Alva Edison
“When
the well is dry, we know the worth of water.”
– Benjamin Franklin, paraphrasing a Thomas Fuller quotation
“The
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“The
earth has music for those who listen.”
– William Shakespeare
For more
quotations (and some quotation graphics that can be used as e-cards), see my compilation at TheGreenSpotlight.com.
Related posts from the past:
- 10 Great Quotations: Wise and Witty Words
- More Great Quotations: Wise Words (Part II)
- Great Quotations: Graphics to Share (Part III)
If you have a favorite quotation, please share
it with all of us via the Comments section below!
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