Quotes About Protection Of Nature

#1. When man continues to destroy nature, he saws the very branch on which he sits since the rational protection of nature is at the same time the protection of mankind

Gerald Durrell

#2. Humans seem to have an innate drive to master other creatures.

Paul Greenberg

#3. Every man ought to plant a tree.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. Compartmentalization is an unconscious psychological defense mechanism employed to avoid cognitive dissonance.

Zack Love

#5. Forest is forest.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. Denying our weaknesses is neither power, nor protection. We cannot overcome those disabling parts of our own nature which in fact steal our power away, if we do not acknowledge they exist.

Sonia Choquette

#7. One wonders, in fact, why marriage is a legal issue at all - apart from its relevance to immigration and property laws. Why would something so integral to human nature require such vigilant legal protection?

Christopher Ryan

#8. Consequently there is a need for spiritual vitality. What protection is there against the danger of organisation? Man is once more faced with the problem of himself. He can cope with every danger except the danger of human nature itself. In the last resort it all turns upon man.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#9. The highly complex, almost mathematical, nature of music creates for it an ironclad protection against the microbes of dilletantism, which penetrate much more easily into the fields of painting, literature, and the theater.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#10. Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

Calvin Coolidge

#11. Our truest nature is to help others, and to protect and love them. We care about others, and delight in seeing others happy and safe.

Bryant McGill

#12. Not allowing people to go through their pain, and protecting them from it, may turn out to be a kind of over-protection, which in turn implies a certain lack of respect for the integrity and the intrinsic nature and the future development of the individual.

Abraham H. Maslow

#13. The theory [before the twentieth century] ... was that all the jobs in the world belonged by right to men, and that only men were by nature entitled to wages. If a woman earned money, outside domestic service, it was because some misfortune had deprived her of masculine protection.

Rheta Childe Dorr

#14. Live in harmony with nature.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. If men would understand and appreciate the good efforts that went into creation and how beautiful, good and awesome the creations were at the beginning, they would never think of undermining the Creators effort and integrity by destroying the beauty of nature! God is watching us!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#16. The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#17. Healthy ecosystems promote healthy life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. When you're in the city, trapped among the cubic structures, it's easy to forget that you're connected to the earth, because you're so separated from it by layers and layers of protection - the soles of your shoes, sandals, or slippers, sheets of asphalt, concrete, linoleum tiling.

Vicente Garcia Groyon

#19. In the state of nature ... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

Baron De Montesquieu

#20. Make each day truly new, dressing it with the blessings of heaven, bathing it in wisdom and love and putting yourself under the protection of Mother Nature. Learn from the wise, from the sacred books, but do not forget that every mountain, river, plant or tree also has something to teach.

Paulo Coelho

#21. Oddly enough, the very considerations that had made marriage impossible for him were mirrored in my own being: a rabidly independent nature, an impatience with lesser minds, total unconventionality, and the horror of being saddled with someone who would need cosseting and protection - the

Laurie R. King

#22. We can find peace among ourselves, when we find peace with nature.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. The love of nature is the love for the Creator.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. The love for God is the love to protect the environment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. The love for God is the love for nature.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. Wilderness holds an original presence giving expression to that which we lack, the losses we long to recover, the absences we seek to fill. Wilderness revives the memory of unity. Through its protection we can find faith in our humanity.

Terry Tempest Williams

#27. The love for nature is the well-spring of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people.

Susan Sontag

#29. Go out there into the glory of the woods. See God in every particle of them expressing glory and strength and power, tenderness and protection. Know that they are God expressing God made manifest.

Emily Carr

#30. A man wreaks harm because he forgets to love peace. He kills because of self-blinded fear, that imagines no other protection.

Janny Wurts

#31. All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things.

Victor Cousin

#32. Sometimes nature can take its course and shove it. Our commitment to protecting our cat or dog is life-long and sadly, sometimes, that includes protection from discomfort and pain, even if, in the vet's opinion, this means euthanasia.

Nick Trout

#33. A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

Umberto Eco

#34. Deep inside, we still have a longing to be reconnected with the nature that shaped our imagination

Janine Benyus

#35. Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us.

Theodore Roosevelt

#36. Let's stop fighting over who we believe created the planet, work together against those that choose to destroy it.

Jack Barker

#37. Nature haters? We know them too well: lifeless creatures created without emotion or aware of anything that is peripheral to their purpose.

Fennel Hudson

#38. Property is in its nature timid and seeks protection, and nothing is more gratifying to government than to become a protector.

John C. Calhoun

#39. Nature is not a drag on growth. Its protection is an unavoidable prerequisite for sustaining economic development

Tony Juniper