Quotes about Environment
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may will call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.
— Ray Comfort
The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life.
— Pope John Paul II
Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.
— John Keats
The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
— George Bernard Shaw
I don't know if human activity is the only cause, but mostly, in great part, it is man who has slapped nature in the face, we have in a sense taken over nature.
— Pope Francis
We have, in a sense, lorded it over nature, over Sister Earth, over Mother Earth, i think man has gone too far.
— Pope Francis
To protect creation, to protect every man and every woman, to look upon them with tenderness and love is to open up a horizon of hope.
— Pope Francis
Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man.
— Henry David Thoreau
The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.
— Henry David Thoreau
A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.
— Henry David Thoreau
I believed in global warming after Al Gore's movie made money; the market had spoken.
— Stephen Colbert