It’s no secret that in the fight for environmental protection, nature is losing. But sometimes, I look to great and funny minds for a little inspiration. These are my favorite quotes about the environment. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go plant a tree or two.
“What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
― Henry David Thoreau, Familiar Letters
“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.”
― George Carlin
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
― John Keats
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
