Earth Quotes - Page 25

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.

Prayer is the conduit through which power from heaven is brought to earth.

It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used but not owned. We are tenants, not possessors, lovers and not masters.

Anyone who cares about the Earth - really cares - must stop eating animals.

The future will be green, or not at all. This truth lies at the heart of humankind's most pressing challenge: to learn to live in harmony with the Earth on a genuinely sustainable basis.

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.

If Newborn Babies Could Speak They Would Be The Most Intelligent Beings On Planet Earth.

Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.

Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth.

The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent upon the earth he treads.

Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way.

No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there. I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one.

The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men.

On our knees we are the most powerful force on earth

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world

Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it's way.

Living in the midst of abundance we have the greatest difficulty in seeing that the supply of natural wealth is limited and that the constant increase of population is destined to reduce the American standard of living unless we deal more sanely with our resources.

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most pervasive , most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth.

The first day or so we all pointed to our country. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continent. By the fifth day, we were aware of only one Earth.

Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.

Down to earth advice about the path that leads away from the kingdom of the hollow men.