They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.