Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Those trees are your lungs. The earth recycles as your body. The rivers recycle as your circulation. The air is your breath. So what do we call the environment?

I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.

Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.

Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.

That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics..

Biodiversity underpins life on earth. And if we don't look after this biodiversity, if we don't protect it, if we don't actually harness it in the right way, we are threatening our own livelihoods on this planet.

Nature is a beautiful thing - it does what it needs to do when it needs to do it.

Trivially speaking, ecological awareness means realising that beings are interconnected in some way, but then we have to figure out what this interconnection actually means.

A functioning eco-system is a human need.

The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man.

The trees are our lungs, the rivers our circulation, the air our breath, and the earth our body.

A lot of people do not think of forests as a health issue, but we have found out that is where our clean water comes from, from the forests.

The environment is everything that makes up our surroundings and affects our ability to live on the earth - the air we breathe, the water that covers most of the earth's surface, the plants and animals around us, the overall condition of our planet, and much more. Protecting the environment is really important to everyone's welfare - that of our children, as well as that of the future generations.

The environment is everything that makes up our surroundings and affects our ability to live on the earth - the air we breathe, the water that covers most of the earth's surface, the plants and animals around us, the overall condition of our planet, and much more.

If we don't preserve forest habitat for spotted owls, then soon we won't have trees to refresh the air we breathe. And we're realizing that this applies to social ecology, as well.

You were the leaves, basking in the sunlight. I was the root, growing in the darkness ~Danzo

Root of a tree, fruit of a vine, let me pass by this blood of mine.

A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm

The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.

The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century.

There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife resources.

Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives us.

Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.

A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.

Can we afford clean water? Can we afford rivers and lakes and streams and oceans which continue to make possible life on this planet? Can we afford life itself? Those questions were never asked as we destroyed the waters of our nation, and they deserve no answers as we finally move to restore and renew them. These questions answer themselves.