Nature and Climate Change Quotes
Top 25 Nature and Climate Change
Quotes
No 1 (Best quote!)![Nature and Climate Change Quotes Nature and Climate Change Quotes](images/quotes-carson.jpg)
Man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
- Rachel Carson (1907-64),
American environmentalist, pictured right.
No 2![Nature and Climate Change Quotes Nature and Climate Change Quotes](images/quotes-mitchell-joni.jpg)
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
(from the 1970 song Big Yellow Tax)
- Joni Mitchell (1943- ), pictured right. Canadian singer.
No 3
We have not inherited the earth from our parents, we have borrowed it from our children.
- Native American proverb.
![Nature and Climate Change Quotes Nature and Climate Change Quotes](images/quotes-crazy-horse.jpg)
So Crazy Horse (c.1849–77), pictured right, the Native
American leader, says:
One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk,
No 4![Nature and Climate Change Quotes Nature and Climate Change Quotes](images/quotes-burke.jpg)
Never, no never, did Nature say one thing and Wisdom say another.
- Edmund Burke (1729–97), Irish-born
politician and philosopher, pictured right.
No 5![Nature and Climate Change Quotes Nature and Climate Change Quotes](images/quotes-gandhi.jpg)
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need but not every man’s greed.
- Mahatma (Mohandas) Gandhi
(1869-1948), Indian leader and philosopher, pictured right.
No 6![Nature and Climate Change Quotes Nature and Climate Change Quotes](images/quotes-carson.jpg)
The road we have been travelling is...a smooth highway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end
lies disaster.
- Rachel Carson (1907-64),
American environmentalist, pictured right.
No 7![Nature and Climate Change Quotes Nature and Climate Change Quotes](images/quotesnash.jpg)
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
(from the 1945 poem Song of the Open Road)
- Ogden Nash (1902-71), pictured right above, American poet.
No 8![Nature and Climate Change Quotes Nature and Climate Change Quotes](images/quotes-wordsworth.jpg)
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
(from the 1804 poem Daffodils)
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850),
pictured right above, English poet.
No 9![Nature and Climate Change Quotes Nature and Climate Change Quotes](images/quotes-blake.jpg)
To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
(from the 1803 poem Auguries of Innocence)
- William Blake (1757-1827), pictured right above, English writer.
No 10![Nature and Climate Change Quotes Nature and Climate Change Quotes](images/quotes-thoreau.jpg)
What is the use of a house if you haven’t a tolerable planet to put it on?,
- Henry David Thoreau
(1817-62), American philosopher, pictured right.
![Nature and Climate Change Quotes Nature and Climate Change Quotes](images/quotes-friedman-thomas.jpg)
Thomas Friedman, pictured right, in Hot, Flat and
Crowded (2008), asks a similar question:
What good is it to have wind-powered lights to brighten the night if you can't see anything green during the
day?
No 11![Nature and Climate Change Quotes Nature and Climate Change Quotes](images/quotes-kant.jpg)
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe...the starry heaven above me and the moral
law within me.
-Immanuel Kant (1724–1804),
German philosopher, pictured right.
No 12![Nature and Climate Change Quotes Nature and Climate Change Quotes](images/quotes-leonardo.jpg)
Human subtlety…will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature,
because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), Italian
painter and designer, pictured right.
No 13![Nature and Climate Change Quotes Nature and Climate Change Quotes](images/quotes-turgenev.jpg)
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.
- Ivan Turgenev (1818–83), Russian writer, pictured right.
No 14![Nature and Climate Change Quotes Nature and Climate Change Quotes](images/quotes-schumacher.jpg)
Since consumption is merely a means to human well-being, the aim should be to obtain the maximum of well-being
with the minimum of consumption.
- Ernst Friedrich (Fritz) Schumacher, pictured right,
Small is Beautiful
(1973).
No 15![Nature and Climate Change Quotes Nature and Climate Change Quotes](images/quotes-cousteau.jpg)
Mankind has probably done more damage to the earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human
history.
- Jacques Cousteau (1910–97), French underwater explorer, pictured right.
No 16![Nature and Climate Change Quotes Nature and Climate Change Quotes](images/quotes-fermi.jpg)
Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never
better than knowledge.
- Enrico Fermi (1901–54), Italian-born American atomic physicist, pictured right.
No 17![Nature and Climate Change Quotes Nature and Climate Change Quotes](images/quotes-carson.jpg)
One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself: What if I had never seen this before? What if I know I would never
see it again?
- Rachel Carson (1907-64),
American environmentalist, pictured right.
No 18![Nature and Climate Change Quotes Nature and Climate Change Quotes](images/quotes-saint-exupery.jpg)
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-44), French writer, pictured right.
No 19![Nature and Climate Change Quotes Nature and Climate Change Quotes](images/quotes-obama.jpg)
We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and
future generations.
- Barack Obama (1961- ), pictured right, in his
Second Inaugural Address (2013)
![Nature and Climate Change Quotes Nature and Climate Change Quotes](images/quotes-hawking.jpg)
The English scientist,Stephen Hawking
(1942- ), pictured right , explains what might happen, if we do nothing:
By 2600, the world population would be standing shoulder to shoulder and the electricity consumed would make the
earth glow red hot.
No 20![Nature and Climate Change Quotes Nature and Climate Change Quotes](images/quotes-keats.jpg)
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun.
(from the 1819 poem To Autumn) - John Keats (1795-1821), pictured right above, English
poet.
No 21![Nature and Climate Change Quotes Nature and Climate Change Quotes](images/quotes-leahy.jpg)
The power of the consumer gives us a lever to address one of the greatest challenges of our time: climate
change.
- Terry Leahy (1956-), chief executive of Tesco,
1997-2011, pictured right.
No 22![Nature and Climate Change Quotes Nature and Climate Change Quotes](images/quotes-hawking.jpg)
We have to reverse global warming urgently, if we still can.
- Stephen Hawking (1942-), English
scientist, pictured right
No 23![Nature and Climate Change Quotes Nature and Climate Change Quotes](images/quotes-shakespeare.jpg)
How beautiful mankind is! O brave new world that hath such people in ’t!,
(Miranda in The Tempest)
- William Shakespeare
(1564-1616), English playwright, pictured right.
No 24![Nature and Climate Change Quotes Nature and Climate Change Quotes](images/quotestutu.jpg)
We live in a world dominated by greed. We have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of
human beings and our Earth.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1931- ), pictured right, South African church leader.
No 25
If we squander the capital represented by living nature around us, we threaten
life itself.
- Ernst Friedrich (Fritz) Schumacher, pictured right ,
in Small is
Beautiful (1973)
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