Quotes

These are quotes I find inspirational about how some people perceive our world; how Man treats his home, the Earth. I hope you find the quotes inspirational to. If you’re one of the persons who needs to change their mind about their perception of Mans treatment of Earth, I hope you can find it in your heart to change for the better. There is only one home for Man and Man is destroying it.

“Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he’s been given. But up to now he hasn’t been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life’s become extinct, the climate’s ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.”
- Anton Chekhov

“The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.”
- Claude Monet

“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”
- Helen Keller

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”
- Rachel Carson

“The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.”
- Zeno

“Nature does nothing uselessly.”
- Aristotle

“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on – have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear – what remains? Nature remains.”
- Walt Whitman

“You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.”
- Hal Borland

“In the fields and woods more than anything else all things come to those who wait, because all things are on the move, and are sure sooner or later to come your way. To absorb a thing is better than to learn it, and we absorb what we enjoy. We learn things at school; we absorb them in the fields and woods. When we look upon Nature with fondness and appreciation, she meets us halfway and takes a deeper hold on us than when studiously conned. Hence I say the way of knowledge of Nature is the way of love and enjoyment, and is more surely found in the open air than in the school room or the laboratory.”
- John Burroughs

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more.”
- Lord George Gordon Byron

“The “control of nature” is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.”
- Rachel Carson

“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us ‘Universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.”
- Albert Einstein

“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.”
-  William Westmoreland

“If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go….This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.”
-  Terry Tempest Williams