Henry David Thoreau Quotes

How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?

There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.

Everybody's seen a stream or a wood they knew replaced by a strip mall.

It is shocking to smite down trees for mere decorations.

If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them. The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.

The world breaks a little bit every time we cut down a tree. It's so much easier to cut one down than to grow one. And so it's worth interrogating every time we do it.

It is easiest to lose your way in the forest after it is cut.

I am the Lorax! I speak for the trees, Which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please; But I also speak for the brown Barbaloots, Who frolicked and played in their Barbaloot suits, Happily eating Truffula fruits. Now, since you've chopped the trees to the ground There's not enough Truffula fruit to go 'round! And my poor Barbaloots are all feeling the crummies Because they have gas, and no food, in their tummies.

Everyone goes to the forest; some go for a walk to be inspired, and others go to cut down the trees.

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

If you look at it ecologically, deforestation is high on the list of things which bring devastation. You cut down trees to build homes, for fuel, and you end up with no trees left, and you have to move on. If you take the earth as a whole, eventually there's nowhere to move on to.

The destruction of the natural beauty, the ecosystems, and the majesty of mountains affect us in ways we're not even aware of. Every time a mountain is beheaded, we chop off a little part of our souls.

Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.

We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.

If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.

You can cut a tree down, and it grows back. Once a species goes, it's gone forever.

Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.

We feel we have to put concrete on every inch of land. It disturbs the ecology, and it takes away the experience of a child going out into the woods and seeing all of nature.

People in general romanticize nature, and they make it out to be something that it isn't because humans are so awful. And yes, we are absolutely screwing up this planet, but that is only because we have the capabilities to do so. Animals are not better than us. They are not nicer than us.

Trees face many difficulties, what with deforestation and pollution, but that didn't stop me from wanting to be one - to just stop feeling and live.

Trees are the source of your very breath - cut and you shall curtail life itself.

Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence . . .