William Wordsworth Quotes

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

We have turned away from the natural world. Instead, it's all about money and power.

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.

This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.

Yes, the natural world is the first and primary Bible. We have not honored it, so how could we, or would we, know how to honor and properly use the second Bible, when it was written.

My favorite memories growing up in North Carolina were hunting and fishing with my father and brothers. There, I developed a deep appreciation for protecting land and waterways. There, I learned outdoorsmanship.

In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day.

We use fashion for status and to beautify and there's nothing wrong with that, but when it becomes completely unbalanced, then you're living a decadent life. And when that happens on a global scale, you're living in a decadent world.

The transformation of environment has become the purpose of human life; life seems real only insofar as it deals with things.

Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time.

… frittered away, 9 times out of 10, in things which pertain to the body and not to the spirit; upon richer food and drink, better clothing, more extravagant living, which are beneficial neither to rich or nor poor.

However widely, or equally, or "fairly", it may be distributed, no general increase of the community's wealth can make any approach to satiating this need, the ground of which is the desire of every one to excel everyone else in the accumulation of goods.

We must be aware of consumerism! That's our tendency. It's the capitalistic curse that we were poisoned with. We should spend only what is necessary. How do you call the big cars, the latest ones? Hummer! Not a single dollar to import Hummers! What is that? What is that? What kind of revolution is this? One of Hummers? No way!

We as Americans have ripped off the world. We get to throw food away. It's insane.

I learned from my parents to revere nature. Their way of teaching my siblings and I to respect the environment was to be in it, and so we spent a great deal of time outdoors.

A lot of places think that bigger is better. It's like consumerism is taking everything over.

These parks are our life's work, not the clothing chains we created, selling people clothes they don't need.

It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it.

Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing less and wanting more.