Quotes about Environment
What I am has been to a considerable extent determined by what my forebears were, by how they chose to treat this place while they lived in it;
— Wendell Berry
trouble with this is that a proper concern for nature and our use of nature must be practiced, not by our proxy-holders, but by ourselves
— Wendell Berry
He turned to his own place then . . . and began to ask what might be the best use of it. How might a family live there without reducing it?
— Wendell Berry
As Sir Albert Howard, a British agrarian much admired by Berry, once put it in The Soil and Health: "The using up of fertility is a transfer of past capital and of future possibilities to enrich a dishonest present: it is banditry pure and simple.
— Wendell Berry
When the Negro opened the blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the single sun-ray.
— William Faulkner
We can never have enough of nature.
— Henry David Thoreau
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
— Henry David Thoreau
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on
— Henry David Thoreau
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them — the whole leaf and root tribe.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
The world's poorest people use the cheapest available fuels - dung and twigs and even leaves.
— Abhijit Banerjee
The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
— Wendell Berry