Inspirational Quotations
This page is home to several quotations about nature and the environment from activists, scientists, and writers.
“The earth has music for those who listen.”
-George Santayana
"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."
-Margaret Mead
“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea,
are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn
from books.”
― John Lubbock
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where
nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.”
― John Muir
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in
time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something
separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This
delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and
to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves
from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living
creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein
“If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls.”
― Jane Goodall
“We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.”
― John Marsden, The Dead of Night
"When we heal the Earth, we heal ourselves."
-David Orr
“You must carry on my spirit. It can no longer be carried by a god. It must be
taken up by all of you. - Pan”
― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth