E. B. White Quotes

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet

There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself.

We live within the environment. So that directly relates with our survival, our life. So through that way, more concern of well being of humanity, then naturally concerned about environment.

We can conserve energy and tread more lightly on the Earth while we expand our culture's capacity for joy.

Taking care of our planet is like taking care of our houses. Since we human beings come from Nature, there is no point in our going against nature, which is why I say the environment is not a matter of religion or ethics or morality. These are luxuries, since we can survive without them. But we will not survive if we continue to go against nature.

We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.

It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it.

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

My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.

Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.

Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes all the local things that are connected by the larger, ultimately mysterious form of the Creation. In speaking of community, then, we are speaking of a complex connection not only among human beings or between humans and their homeland but also between human economy and nature, between forest or prairie and field or orchard, and between troublesome creatures and pleasant ones. All neighbors are included.

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.

We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities.

In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.

Virtually all native cultures that have survived without fouling their nests have acknowledged that nature knows best, and have had the humility to ask the bears and wolves and ravens and redwoods for guidance.

The human family has invaluable friends and irreplaceable allies in the plant and animal worlds. We cannot continue to tug at the web of life without tearing a hole in the very fabric of our earthly existence - and eventually falling through that hole ourselves.

The world is a sacred vessel. It should not be meddled with. It should not be owned. If you try to meddle with it you will ruin it. If you try to own it you will lose it

Our relationship to the environment matters, our relationship to animals matters, and our relationship to culture matters.

You are a guest of nature - behave.

Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at all by future generations. We have the capability and the responsibility to act; we must do so before it is too late.

The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.