Ronald Reagan Quotes

I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

Every acre of forest should belong to the people.

The planet's forests are essential for life.

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

Environmentalism is a way of seeing our place within the biosphere.

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

China has led the world in new tree planting. Over the last several years China has planted 40 percent as many trees as the rest of the world put together. Since 198, all citizens of China over age 11 (and younger than 60) have been formally required at least three trees per year.

Our government has done nothing effective with its forests, though the best in the world, but is like a rich and foolish spendthrift who has inherited a magnificent estate in perfect order, and then has left his rich fields and meadows, forests and parks, to be sold and plundered and wasted at will …

Ecology has become the political substitute for the word "motherhood.

Everybody deserves a chance to be in nature.

A tree is beautiful, but what’s more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples’ character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if forests crash down under the axe, if the climate is harsh and severe, if people are also harsh and severe. ... What a terrible future!

As a nation we have not yet come to have a proper respect for the forest and to regard it as an indispensable part of our resources—one which is easily destroyed but difficult to replace; one which confers great benefits while it endures, but whose disappearance is accompanied by a train of evil consequences not readily foreseen and positively irreparable.

Our forest policy is not to preserve forests because they are beautiful—though that is a good in itself—not to preserve them because they are refuges for wild creatures of the wilderness—though that is a good in itself—but rather to conserve them in order to guarantee a steady and continuous supply of timber, grass, and above all, water.

The only thing I do for posterity is plant trees.

Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power.

I'm not an extreme tree-hugger. I do believe trees grow and are a useful agricultural product that can be harvested without damaging the ecology and wildlife.

I'm a big believer in our connection to nature.

You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus.

My main issue is sustainability of the Earth, and protection of those animals and people who dwell here.

In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.

Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.

Right now there should be a moratorium on the cutting down of old growth in this country. That is a small thing to ask at this point. There is only four percent of old growth left. Ninety-six percent of it has been cut down.