Quotes on nature?

Answer 1

"For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value."
Claude Monet

"Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them."
Mark Twain

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."
John Muir

"A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children."
Audobon

"The Creator has an inordinate fondness for beetles."
JBS Haldane

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

"It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value."
Stephen Hawking

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead

"To make an apple pie from scratch, we must first invent the universe."
Carl Sagan

"We are an impossibility in an impossible universe."
Ray Bradbury

"To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase it's usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed."
Theodore Roosevelt

"The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations."
Steven J. Gould (From a Panda's Thumb)

"Water is the driving force of all nature."
Leonardo Da Vinci

"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."
Galileo

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Answer 2

Back around 1900, a Congressman objected to taking land away from development for the prosperity of the American people and turning it over to National Parks for tree-huggers:

NOT ONE CENT FOR SCENERY

Answer 3

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." (emerson)

"Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots." (thoreau)

"How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!" (Dickinson)

"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed." (ghandi)

"I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own." (warhol)

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Answer 4

Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money

Man did not weave the web of life he is mearly a strand upon it and what ever he does to te web he doe's unto himself

Answer 5

1.Nature has always had more force than education.
2.Nature is the ar tof god.
3.Nothig in nature is unserviceable,
No,not even inutility itself.
4.To see her is to love her,
And love but her forever;
For nature made her what she is
And never made another.

Answer 6

Treat Mother NATURE well and she will treat YOU likewise.

Answer 7

the woods are lovely ,dark and deep;
but i have promises to keep,
and miles to go before i sleep;
miles to go before i sleep!

Answer 8

"Greenary is the best Scenery"