Famous quotes by Environmentalists

Environmentalists

Explore a collection of reflections and calls to action from environmentalists across eras and regions. These voices, scientists, activists, Indigenous leaders, writers, and policymakers, share insights about our relationship with the planet, the urgency of conservation, and the hope found in community and stewardship. Whether you're seeking inspiration, perspective, or a moment of reflection, these words offer pathways to think, feel, and act with greater care for the Earth and all who depend on it.

"To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering"

Aldo Leopold, Environmentalist

"A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise"

Aldo Leopold, Environmentalist

"I want you to act as if the house is on fire, because it is"

Greta Thunberg, Environmentalist

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"Heredity is nothing but stored environment"

Luther Burbank, Environmentalist

"Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind"

Aldo Leopold, Environmentalist

"Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble"

Roger Tory Peterson, Environmentalist

"The power of imagination makes us infinite"

John Muir, Environmentalist

"You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere"

Donella Meadows, Environmentalist

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"Scientific innovations continually provide us with new means of analyzing the finds"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

"The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love"

Luther Burbank, Environmentalist

"Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park"

Donella Meadows, Environmentalist

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"Beauty is power; a smile is its sword"

John Ray, Environmentalist

"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul"

Luther Burbank, Environmentalist

"We must return to nature and nature's god"

Luther Burbank, Environmentalist

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe"

John Muir, Environmentalist

"The mountains are calling and I must go"

John Muir, Environmentalist

"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, Environmentalist

"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, Environmentalist

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"The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February"

Joseph Wood Krutch, Environmentalist

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"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want"

Joseph Wood Krutch, Environmentalist

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"There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president"

Donella Meadows, Environmentalist

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"The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

"Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations"

David R. Brower, Environmentalist

"Incommensurables cannot be compared"

Garrett Hardin, Environmentalist

"We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive"

Aldo Leopold, Environmentalist

"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect"

Aldo Leopold, Environmentalist

"One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring"

Aldo Leopold, Environmentalist

"Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think"

Luther Burbank, Environmentalist

"If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed"

Luther Burbank, Environmentalist

"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness"

John Muir, Environmentalist

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