Quotes of Wildlife - somelinesforyou

“ I am the eagle, I live in high country, in rocky cathedrals that reach to the sky;I am the hawk and there's blood on my feathers, but time is still turning they soon will be dry;All those who see me, and all who believe in me, share in the freedom I feel when I fly. ”

- John Denver

“ If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ God bless America. Let's save some of it. ”

- Edward Abbey

“ The purpose of conservation: the greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time. ”

- Gifford Pinchot

“ Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles. ”

- Pope John Paul II

“ I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Political Liberty consists in the power of doing whatever does not injure another. The exercise of the natural rights of every the free exercise of the same rights. ”

- Thomas Paine

“ The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical... Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity. ”

- Bergen Evans

“ If the human race is to continue for another million years, we will have to boldly go where no one has gone before. ”

- Stephen Hawking

“ What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones? ”

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

“ What is the good of having a nice house without a decent planet to put it on? ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ A country is known by the way it treats its animals. ”

- Jawaharlal Nehru

“ The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly. ”

- Richard Bach

“ For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish piecemeal. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth. This requires building economies with heart. ”

- David Korten

“ To find new things, take the path you took yesterday. ”

- John Burroughs

“ To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering. ”

- Aldo Leopold

“ I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use our natural resources, but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or rob by wasteful use, the generations that come after us. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ A hummingbird is a feathered prism, a living rainbow. Darting out of a fairyland into your garden, it captures the very sunlight for you and turns it into a jewel on wings. ”

- Donald Culross Peattie

“ It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. ”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

“ It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end. ”

- Ursula LeGuin

“ When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row. ”

- Alice Paul

“ When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come. ”

- Leonardo da Vinci

“ And find that dark, too blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet, and dark wings. ”

- Wendell Berry

“ Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfully committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. ”

- Margaret Mead

“ It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature. ”

- Christopher Morley

“ I look at ANWR as a poison pill in the energy bill. ”

- Ben Nelson

“ You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi
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