Green Earth Quotes

Let the blue sky overhead, The green earth on which ye tread, All that must eternal be Witness the solemnity.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.

If dead things love, if earth and water distinguish friends from enemies, I should like to possess their love. I should like the green earth not to feel my step as a heavy burden. I should like her to forgive that she for my sake is wounded by plough and harrow, and willingly to open for my dead body.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth’s end, Where the bow’d welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the Moon.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

To leave behind what was in reality a hell, and immediately have this good green earth revealed in more glory than most men ever see it, was one of the compensating privileges which make me feel that my suffering was worthwhile.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today.

Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.

The easiest thing to find on God’s green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

The earth is what we all have in common.

The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God’s green earth.

God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain’s majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?’ A man may do both,’ said Aragorn. ‘For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!

Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.

There would be very little point in my exhausting myself and other conservationists themselves in trying to protect animals and habitats if we weren’t at the same time raising young people to be better stewards.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

We have to wear clothes, a requirement of custom, but more time, temper, character, and peace of mind, not to mention money, have been sacrificed to them than to any other altar on this green earth, and for what?

There is nothing on God’s green earth that someone won’t complain about including both God and green earth.

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Glance at the sun. See the moon and stars. Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. Now think.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

I am in love with the green earth.

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

There’s nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and a smaller government.

Because we don’t think about future generations, they will never forget us.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

The green earth sends her incense up. From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup She pours her sacred wine.

To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.

The thing that is incredible is life itself.