Antoine Lavoisier Quotes

Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.

No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.

For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

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

Environmentalism is a way of seeing our place within the biosphere.

Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.

The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.

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.

One reason that birds matter - ought to matter - is that they are our last, best connection to a natural world that is otherwise receding. They're the most vivid and widespread representatives of the Earth as it was before people arrived on it.

All I want to do is to present the abundance of life on Earth.

The planet's forests are essential for life.

Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power.

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

I love nature.

We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.

We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.

One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.

I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

It's fair to say when you go out and walk in the woods or on a beach, the most conspicuous forms of life you will see are plants and animals, and certainly there's a huge diversity of those types of organisms, perhaps 10 million animal species and several hundred thousand plant species.

Nature is perfect.

I believe in the protection of the environment that supports us all.