Edmund Burke Quotes

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

Nature abhors annihilation.

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

Extinction is forever!

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

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

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

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the 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.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

When you have to besiege a city for a long time, you must not destroy its trees, wielding an ax against them. You may eat of them, but you must not cut them down. Are the trees human, to withdraw before your siege?

Nothing was made by God for man to spoil or destroy.

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it..

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.

It is not enough to celebrate the earth and all its inhabitants, we must restore what we have destroyed.

There probably were floods when our land was newly settled but before we cut our trees so recklessly they were not so serious. If we go to the headwaters of our rivers and we will find the cause and the results which follow in the wake of man's destructive ignorance.

Nature is nobody's ally.

Nature has a way of giving back. And we can never go against it.