Quotes about Environment

My parents were gardeners themselves, and perforce they used environmental techniques because it was during the war, and you didn't have the new sorts of chemicals.

today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.

The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed!

My hope for the future is that we learn wisdom again.

A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.

All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.

There are no bad plants or bad men. There is only bad husbandry.

Small yet strong in the love of God, like Saint Francis of Assisi, all of us, as Christians, are called to watch over and protect the fragile world in which we live, and all its peoples.

You become what you hang around most.

The hole in the ozone layer is a kind of skywriting. At first it seemed to spell out our continuing complacency before a witch's brew of deadly perils. But perhaps it really tells of a newfound talent to work together to protect the global environment.

The secrets of evolution are death and time—the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

Those who avoid decapitation leave more offspring.