223 quotes found
“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”
“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wi...”
“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its ...”
“Landscapes of great wonder and beauty lie under our feet and all around us. They are discovered in tunnels in the ground, the heart of flowers, the hollows of trees, fresh-water ponds, seaweed jung...”
“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.”
“You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are.”
“No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them.”
“We were bred of earth before we were bred of our mothers. Once born, we can live without mother or father, or any other kin, or any friend, or any human love. We cannot live without the earth or ap...”
“You are the sun and the rain, the water and the plants, the birds and the animals. There is no such thing as nature, apart from you and me. You are nature, I am nature, just as you are me and I am ...”
“All must pay the debt of nature.”
“Limitation of scope, however, could represent a profound advantage from an ecological point of view. The sun, the wind and the earth are experiential realities to which men have responded sensuousl...”
“Protecting our environment is not a luxury we can choose to enjoy, but a simple matter of survival.”
“The mirror reflect what it sees. So state of our waterbodies, shows our own nature.”
“Connecting people with people, people with nature, and people with the earth.”
“The forest talks but a good hunter only hears it by learning its language.”
“No animal could change the character of the land as the presence of the wolf had that day.”
“Where they gone for the timber it ben a special place of myn. Where the old track sydls the hy groun sholder. It wer woodit with oak there. Hy groun on 1 side of the track and on the other it sloap...”
“River is river.”
“In the summers we swam in the river and caught minnows with jam pots; on Sunday evenings my father fished in it, bringing home each time a bag of trout. In winter salmon came up to this quiet backw...”
“Plant a tree in your lifetime.”
