Earth Day, celebrated around the world on April 22, It is a good opportunity to reflect on the state of our planet and the urgent need to restore the lost ecological balance. Now a series famous quotes about the environment This makes us think about man’s role in the world.
This is just a small selection of ecological thoughts and reflections:
“Nature is not a place to visit. This is home”
Gary Sherman Snyder is an American poet and activist.
“There is no reward or punishment in nature, there are consequences”
Bob Ingersoll is an American lawyer and politician.
“In every walk in touch with nature, people find much more than what they are looking for”
John Muir, naturalist and explorer.
“Water and soil, the two basic elements on which life depends, have become global trash cans”
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, marine explorer.
“The reason we find ourselves so comfortable in the middle of nature is because it has no idea about us.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, poet and philologist.
“Art, glory, freedom fade, but nature always remains beautiful”
George Gordon Byron, English poet.
“Economic growth and environmental protection are not compatible”
Henry Merritt “Hank” Paulson Jr. is an American businessman.
“Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in danger, we will soon know that we will be in danger.”
Roger Tory Peterson was a naturalist, ornithologist and educator.
“I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I became a vegetarian for the health of chickens”
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jewish writer.
“The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else”
Barry Commoner, biologist.
“Our health depends entirely on the viability of our similar species on Earth”
Harrison Ford is an actor.
“You can’t go a single day on Earth without making an impact on the Earth. What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
Dame Jane Morris Goodall, primatologist and anthropologist.
“We live in the world as if we have another place to go”
Terry Swearingen is an American activist and nurse.
“The world provides enough for every man’s need, but not every man’s greed”
Mahatma Gandhi, Indian peace leader.
“When the world is sick and polluted, human health is impossible”
Aboriginal activist Bobby McLeod.
“We have met the enemy and he is us”
Walt Kelly is an American cartoonist.
“We will never understand the value of water until the well dries up”
Quote by historian Thomas Fuller.
“It is a great sadness to think that nature speaks when the human race does not listen.”
Victor Marie Hugo, French romantic poet and novelist.
“Something must be done to protect a Mother who doesn’t complain, who gave us everything we’ve got, and we just killed!”
Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente is a Spanish naturalist.
“Everything that happens to the world will also happen to the children of the world”
India Chief Seattle.
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