Environmental Words to Live By

He who plants a tree, plants hope.
Lucy Larcom - American Poet

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.
John Muir - Naturalist

If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit the right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably.
Tony Blair - Former British Prime Minister

When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the human race.
H.G. Wells - American Author

Take care of the land--there is not any more of it being made.
Robert L. Byrd - Outdoorsman

If there is one thing that Steve Irwin, would want to be remembered for, I want to be remembered for passion and enthusiasm. Conservation is my job, my life, my whole persona.
Steve Irwin - The Crocodile Hunter

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and through fast rooted, they travel about as far as we do.
John Muir - Naturalist

Every creature is better alive than dead, man and moose and pine tree, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Henry David Thoreau - American Author

It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.
John F. Kennedy - Thirty-fifth President of the United States

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold or silver.
Martin Luther - Religious Reformer