David Mixner Quotes

The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.

She was green when green wasn't in. From sea to shining sea, Lady Bird Johnson has left her legacy in a more beautiful America. From millions of trees and wildflowers planted, to interstates free from billboards and replaced with green.

I've always liked Muir without knowing quite why.

At present … the best part of the land is not private property; the landscape is not owned, and the walker enjoys comparative freedom. But possibly the day will come when it will be partitioned off into so-called pleasure-grounds, in which a few will take a narrow and exclusive pleasure only,—when fences shall be multiplied, and man-traps and other engines invented to confine men to the public road, and walking over the surface of God’s earth shall be construed to mean trespassing on some gentleman’s grounds. To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it. Let us improve our opportunities, then, before the evil days come.

I have seen two tremendous works of nature in America—the Niagara Falls and Mr. [Theodore] Roosevelt.

Leave it [The Grand Canyon] as it is. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it …. Keep it for your children, your children’s children, and all who come after you, as one of the sights which every American … should see.

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

Teddy Roosevelt of course was a great outdoorsman all his life.

A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.

The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there.

If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.

Nature is perfect.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished.

Cherish sunsets, wild creatures and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth.

In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

Teddy Roosevelt is still a hero among environmentalists for his conservationist policies.

I have been honoured to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me.

They are against nature and the principles of liberty

Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time.