Wendell Berry Quotes

We were created to take care of, steward the land. That is mankind's purpose on earth, to steward and take care of the land as it feeds off of it.

We depend on nature to survive... it is our responsibility also to take care of our home, planet Earth.

First we must learn to love nature. Then comes conservation.

We love our planet Earth. We should - it is our home, and there's no place like home. There can't ever be a better place than Earth.

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.

I think it's important to be kind to the world before it disappears if we don't take care of it.

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 most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.

On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.

Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

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

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

Our Earth is talking to us, and we must listen to it and decipher its message if we want to survive.

We can see the weather change, that the birds don't come to the city anymore... we seriously have to think about preserving nature.

We only have one earth. Let's take care of it.

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

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

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

We must conserve our environment and pass it on to our children in as good or better condition than it was passed to us.

Further devastation of the air, land and sea is obviously a very real possibility, unless the attitudes of politicians and all who irresponsibly exploit our natural resources change significantly in the very near future and all collaborate and sacrifice for the good of the planet.

If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world.

Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.