Nell Newman Quotes

Earth Day should encourage us to reflect on what we are doing to make our planet a more sustainable and livable place.

If we moved from industrialized agriculture to re-localized organic agriculture, we could sequester about one quarter of the carbon moving into the air and destroying our glaciers, oceans, forests and lands.

We can make a concerted effort to stop poisoning the planet: that would be a good way of appeasing the gods.

People can live in nature, and they won't necessarily destroy it.

As cheesy as it sounds, truly every day is Earth Day.

Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?

Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

It's not that hard to imagine the natural world recovering it's health in our absence: it's more difficult, and more necessary, to imagine it recovering its health in our presence.

With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.

It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has fought tirelessly to protect and preserve our natural resources and environment for future generations.

I travel all over the country speaking to young people, and I am always amazed at how engaged in environmental conservation they are.

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.

Sustainability, ensuring the future of life on Earth, is an infinite game, the endless expression of generosity on behalf of all.

If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it.

So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle.

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

It's more than just high quality food for the family table; it's growing the food in a way that does not harm the environment. That gives me emotional well-being that is important to me.

Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth.

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.