Herman Melville Quotes

Mother Nature is not sweet.

Our conservation laws are based on static ideas about nature—not landscapes that are rapidly changing because of something humans did.

Nature is simply the environment on earth in which man finds himself, and to treat it as a separate being in the image of man is sheer nonsense.

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

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

The environment is everything that isn't me.

The great task for environmental historians is to record and analyze the effects of man's recently achieved control over the natural world. What is needed is a longer-term global, comparative, historical perspective that treats the environment as a meaningful variable.

Man's war against nature is a war against himself.

It's nice to think about having everything natural and similar to pre-Columbian times.... In fact, man himself has long been part of that environment and there is no way to separate him from that environment.

The environment is more than just nature. The environment is peoples needs.

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

When you look for the environment, you find things that are in it: a hammer, a smartphone, some rusty nails, a shed, a spider, some grass, a tree. So there is a big difference between environmentality and Nature. Nature is definitely something you can point to: it is 'over yonder' in the mountains, in my DNA, under the pavement.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.

So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us. Because the planet doesn't need to be saved. It doesn't care if all the squirrels, elephants, and trees die and there's just a couple of amoebas floating around at the poles.

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

The images of Earth's delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronauts left their footsteps, have become iconic for environmentalists: these may indeed be the Apollo programme's most enduring legacy.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.

The transformation of environment has become the purpose of human life; life seems real only insofar as it deals with things.

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.