Leon Battista Alberti Quotes

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

Conservation is key to preserving many of the world's natural beauty spots, so do your best to help by keeping to designated footpaths and being a discerning souvenir collector.

When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

I love nature. I'm not going to do anything to detract from it.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.

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

I work with nature, although in completely new terms.

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.

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

It's hard to talk about it without sounding like a hippie. But trees are really inspiring to me. They're like the masters of the earth.

If I have any lasting worth, it will be because I have tried to make people remember what the Earth is meant to look like.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

We've seen that if we do not pollute, then the environment becomes so beautiful.

God put the human race in charge of managing the resources of the entire planet for the benefit of all life. Therefore, we, of all people on this planet, should be concerned about environmental issues and doing what we can to enhance the beauty and productivity of the natural realm.

Nature is so phenomenal.

I see a future in which nature gives us a helping hand. Instead of destroying the natural world, why can't we use it to solve the kinds of problems that we are facing?

I think we get used to not seeing the green things around us. I think they become the backdrop of our lives. And I think you actively have to ask somebody to request that they put that in the foreground.

I love all of the Earth.

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

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.