Environmental Importance Quotes

A tree is beautiful, but what’s more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples’ character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if forests crash down under the axe, if the climate is harsh and severe, if people are also harsh and severe. ... What a terrible future!

We must protect our ocean as if our lives depend upon it, because they do.

Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.

Nature nurtures our souls and lifts our spirits. But it also sustains us and our economy - and it is for this reason that we take it for granted at our peril.

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

I saw that animals were important. I saw that plants were even more important. I was also to learn that compared to many of the other species, we weren't important at all except for the damage we do. We do not rule the natural world, despite our conspicuous position in it. On the contrary, it is our lifeline, and we do well to try to understand its rules.

To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees.

Water is the foundation for our economies, communities, ecosystems, and quality of life.

Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system.

If we lose our wilderness, we have nothing left, in my opinion, worth fighting for; or to be more exact, a completely industrialized United States is of no consequence to me.

An old-growth forest, a mountain range or a river valley is more important and certainly more loveable than any country will ever be.

Every user of the river down here understands that a healthy river is absolutely vital for a healthy economy and a healthy tourism industry.

The environment is so fundamental to our continued existence that it must transcend politics and become a central value of all members of society.

Our lifestyle, our wildlife, our land and our water remain critical to our definition of Wyoming and to our economic future.

Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.

This planet is our home. If we destroy the planet, we've destroyed our home, so it is fundamentally important.

Wilderness has become one of the world's fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable. Yet unlike oil, gold or woodchips, it is essential to the wellbeing of humanity. We are made of it and fashioned by it...our psychological beings resonate with it.

It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when it has a far more important bearing on the human race of a given locale than excrescences called cities.