Environmental Appreciation Quotes

The winters will drive you crazy until you learn to get out into them.

My father was a great outdoorsman. From when I was about six we would spend countless hours together in the woods or on a lake. He taught me how to skin a rabbit and pluck a wild turkey. He showed me there is much more to nature than we can ever understand.

I love being outside.

This air we breathe is precious, and the glaciers helped me understand that and stay focused on that.

It's a wonderful experience to look at our Earth.

There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all of the life to be found around them in a real forest.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains.

But I love to be outdoors. I prefer being outdoors to, you know, being inside.

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.

I love to be outdoors.

I love my poor earth because I have seen no other.

The world is a fascinating, difficult place, and in order to take full advantage of what the planet has to offer, we need to see and hear natural things.

It's not at all naturally human to see something like the Grand Canyon as beautiful.

I always say I'm no different than a 19th-century landscape painter, it's just that we have these incredible tools to look at the Earth and look at the world around us differently.

The more people share woodland, absorb it and regard it as part of their personal heritage and culture, the richer our society will be. The more people can work in woods and use them practically rather than go through the motions as a kind of ersatz exercise, the more they will care for the places themselves rather than the political idea of them.

Fishing is more than fish; it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life.

It was Apollo 8 that first showed us the tiny blue marble of Earth floating in the void of space, one of the great psychological shifts in human history. From out there, we can both appreciate and begin to solve the problems of our world in ways unavailable to us otherwise.

After music, trees are my passion. My great-grandfather was a forester, so maybe it is genetic. My father would take me for walks in the forest and sometimes I would play truant with him. 'You won't learn anything in a communist school, my boy,' he would say. He loved trees too.

The key of 'The Earth from Above,' and of 'Home' is to show the beauty of the planet, and thereby to promote love for it.

We came all this way to explore the moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.

The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness.

The apologists for space science always seem over-impressed by engineering trivia and make far too much of non-stick frying pans and perfect ball-bearings. To my mind, the outstanding spin-off from space research is not new technology. The real bonus has been that for the first time in human history we have had a chance to look at the Earth from space, and the information gained from seeing from the outside our azure-green planet in all its global beauty has given rise to a whole new set of questions and answers.

Its about cherishing the woodland at the bottom of your garden or the stream that runs through it. It affects every aspect of life.

I'm a really natural person; I love nature.

Nature inspires us. Not being able to reach out and touch it, or see it, makes me get really antsy.