Nature Quotes

Mountains, oceans, and everything growing in between. The natural world as teacher and mirror.

18018 quotes

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"Wildness is a necessity for preserving our humanity."
David Brower
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"In nature's infinite book of secrecy, a little I can read."
David Brower
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"The silence of nature is louder than the noise of civilization."
David Brower
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"The mountains speak a language older than words."
David Brower
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"The wilderness is not a place to visit; it is a place to belong."
David Brower
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"The wilderness calls to the better part of our nature."
David Brower
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"The greatest wealth is the wealth of nature."
David Brower
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"Beauty and nature are not luxuries - they are essential to our humanity."
Naomi Klein
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"We must stop treating nature as a resource to be exploited and start treating it as alive."
Naomi Klein
"The seed is not a commodity. It is the embodiment of millennia of evolution and the source of all life."
Vandana Shiva
"When we destroy biodiversity, we destroy the very fabric of life that sustains us all."
Vandana Shiva
"The Earth does not belong to us; we belong to the Earth."
Vandana Shiva
"Water is not a commodity to be traded like widgets; it is the essence of life."
Vandana Shiva
"Soil is alive; it is a community of organisms that deserves our respect and care."
Vandana Shiva
"Nature's abundance is not a gift to be exploited; it is a trust to be protected."
Vandana Shiva
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"The ice sheets are telling us a story if we're willing to listen."
James Hansen
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"Nature provides everything we need if we're willing to respect its boundaries."
James Hansen
"The great tragedy of the climate crisis is that three and a half degrees of warming isn't a merciful goal—it's a catastrophe."
Bill McKibben
"Nature doesn't negotiate. Physics doesn't bargain. We must bend to reality."
Bill McKibben
"Every forest that burns, every glacier that melts is a message we're ignoring."
Bill McKibben
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"Our current economic system treats the living world as garbage to be discarded."
Naomi Klein
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"The climate crisis is a crisis of our relationship with nature itself."
Naomi Klein
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"If you really cared about the climate and nature, you wouldn't fly around the world."
Greta Thunberg
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"Nature does not negotiate. Nature does not compromise."
Greta Thunberg
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"Nature is our home, and we must protect it."
Greta Thunberg
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"Nature doesn't make mistakes. We do, and we call it progress."
Arundhati Roy
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"In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks."
Aldo Leopold
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"The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land."
Aldo Leopold
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"Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land."
Aldo Leopold
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"Wilderness is the raw material out of which man manufactures the stuff which he calls civilization."
Aldo Leopold