Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes

The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally.

Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.

We are evolutionary descendents of this marvellous panoply of life. And what that says unequivocally is we have an utter total obligation to make sure we have an environment that not only is good for us but is good for all living organisms.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

Again and again we are confronted with the reality - some might say the problem - of sharing our space with other living things, be they dogs, trees, fish or penguins.

One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.

No species is more important than others.

Our health depends on the health of the environment in which we live.

Unfortunately, most people never observe the natural cycle of birth and death. They do not realize that for one living thing to survive, another living thing must die.

We are all part of the ecosystem.

We share the earth not only with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures.

The environment is everything that makes up our surroundings and affects our ability to live on the earth - the air we breathe, the water that covers most of the earth's surface, the plants and animals around us, the overall condition of our planet, and much more.

We are part of a great whole. All living things are our brothers and sisters.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, -

The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.

The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.

Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers. There is enough room in the sky for all flyers.

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.

An argument often given for why Earth couldn't host another form of life is that once the life we know became established, it would have eliminated any competition through natural selection. But if another form of life were confined to its own niche, there would be little direct competition with regular life.

For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish.

The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.

I want viewers to see that everything is connected, even the little guys like pollinators and flowers.

Environmentalism is a way of seeing our place within the biosphere.

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.

The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.