Environmental Quotes



The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

-Ross Perot


The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it.

-Chinese Proverb


It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

-Ansel Adams


How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean.

-Arthur C. Clarke


The earth does not belong to us, we belong to the earth.

-Chief Seattle


The superior man seeks what is right; the inferior one, what is profitable.

-Confucius


Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air...

-Ralph Waldo Emerson


Mostly sea and always summer.

-Rosita Forbes (Eleuthera)


Modern technology owes ecology an apology.

-Alan M. Eddison


Laws Change; people die; the land remains.

-Abraham Lincoln


You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

-Mahatma Gandhi



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