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Ecology Quotes
Ecology Quotes We are all finding ways of coping with our changing environment. As man finds ways of adjusting to global warming, the need for recycling, looking for sustainable energy sources and other environmental concerns, there is nothing like a few words of wisdom that can brighten up our day and inspire us to do more than our share in helping alleviate global warming and concerns for our environment. Some of them are funny, others are cynical and sarcastic. But they all drive the point home. Here are a some notable quotes to think about. There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed. ~Mohandas K. Gandhi There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. ~Robert Orben It wasn't the Exxon Valdez captain's driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill. It was yours. ~Greenpeace advertisement, New York Times, 25 February 1990 Modern technology Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find. ~Quoted in Time Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. ~William Ruckelshaus, Business Week, 18 June 1990 We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732 We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. ~James G. Watt, quoted in Newsweek, 8 March 1982 The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. ~Ralph Nader, quoted in Linda Botts, ed., Loose Talk, 1980 The packaging for a microwavable "microwave" dinner is programmed for a shelf life of maybe six months, a cook time of two minutes and a landfill dead-time of centuries. ~David Wann, Buzzworm, November 1990 If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. ~Jacques Barzun, The House of Intellect, 1959 We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. ~Francis Bacon Opie, you haven't finished your milk. We can't put it back in the cow, you know. ~Aunt Bee Taylor, The Andy Griffith Show The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. ~Ross Perot Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth. ~Ian McHarg Every day is Earth Day. ~Author Unknown The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. ~Carl Sagan The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day. ~Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya, 1897 Ecology Qupotes / Sources For more Ecology Quotes go to Quotes About Ecology. Define Ecology
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