Famous quotes by Environmentalists

"How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!"

John Muir, Environmentalist

"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings"

John Muir, Environmentalist

"A few minutes ago, every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease"

John Muir, Environmentalist

"What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants"

Joseph Wood Krutch, Environmentalist

Joseph Wood Krutch

"Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do"

Joseph Wood Krutch, Environmentalist

Joseph Wood Krutch

"There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men"

Joseph Wood Krutch, Environmentalist

Joseph Wood Krutch

"The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only"

Joseph Wood Krutch, Environmentalist

Joseph Wood Krutch

"Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without"

Joseph Wood Krutch, Environmentalist

Joseph Wood Krutch

"Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is"

Joseph Wood Krutch, Environmentalist

Joseph Wood Krutch

"It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being"

Joseph Wood Krutch, Environmentalist

Joseph Wood Krutch

"If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either"

Joseph Wood Krutch, Environmentalist

Joseph Wood Krutch

"Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude"

Joseph Wood Krutch, Environmentalist

Joseph Wood Krutch

"Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies"

Joseph Wood Krutch, Environmentalist

Joseph Wood Krutch

"Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most"

Joseph Wood Krutch, Environmentalist

Joseph Wood Krutch

"Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying"

Joseph Wood Krutch, Environmentalist

Joseph Wood Krutch

"I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

"Earlier, 100,000 elephants lived in Kenya and we didn't have any noteworthy problem with it. The problem that we have is not that there are now more elephants"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

"We are concerned that in a few years' time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can be found nowhere else in the world, could be completely destroyed"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

"The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

"I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

"When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle"

David R. Brower, Environmentalist

"Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

"One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a sliver of the skull. Categorizing these pieces can be very difficult"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

"Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

"For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to be washed over with water as soon as possible, so that the bones are covered with a layer of sediment"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

"Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

"Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

"We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

"A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

"To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

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