“When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.”
– Joseph Wood Krutch
“Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.”
– Aldo Leopold
“They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.”
– Sitting Bull
“Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we’ll soon be in trouble.”
– Roger Tory Peterson
“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
“I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.”
– Isaac Bashevis Singer
“By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.”
– Aeschylus
“We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.”
– Margaret Mead
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”
– John Muir
“If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.”
– Joseph Wood Krutch
“The environment is everything that isn’t me.”
– Albert Einstein
“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”
– Ansel Adams
“Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”
– John Muir
“Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.”
– John Muir