Environment

QUOTES

They tried to tear the mountains down,To bring in a couple more;More people, more scars upon the land.
 John Denver Duchendorf
 Rocky Mountain High,

The poor tread lightest upon the earth. The higher our income, the more resources we control and the more havoc we wreak.
 Paul Harrison
 1992

I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.
 Gro Harlem Brundtland
 1989

I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.
 Ogden Nash
 Song of the Open Road, 1933

All that remains For us will be concrete and tyres.
 Philip Larkin
 Going, Going, 1974

Think globally, act locally.
 Friends of the Earth
 1985

Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.
 Edward Abbey
 

Mankind has probably done more damage to the earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
 Jacques Cousteau
 1996

They paved paradise And put up a parking lot.
 Jon Mitchell
 Big Yellow Taxi, 1970

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