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I have found that good taste, oddly enough, plays an important role in politics. Why is it like that? The most probable reason is that good taste is a visible manifestation of human sensibility toward the world, environment, people.
Sep 28, 2025
In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own.
We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.
Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.
God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
The environment is everything that isn't me.
I believe that there is a whole set of issues in the world - environment, proliferation, energy, cyberspace - that can only be dealt with on a global basis. The traditional patterns of national rivalry and national competition are not suitable for those cases.
The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.
The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.
We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.
We must return to nature and nature's god.
The need for a global structure of control in the form of a world environment court is now more urgent than ever before.
By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!
Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.
Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
God cannot save them from fools.
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
All things are bound together. All things connect.
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
It is time for a sustainable energy policy which puts consumers, the environment, human health, and peace first.
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.
The world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race: they affect us all.
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!