Quotes for Gardeners, Farmers,
and Lovers of the Green Way
"A true conservationist is a man who knows that the
world is not given by his fathers,
but borrowed from his children."
- John James Audubon, 1785 - 1851
"To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin
and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase it's usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very property
which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed."
- Theodore Roosevelt, 1858 - 1919
"It isn't pollution that's
harming the environment.
It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
- Dan Quayle
"Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the
ecologists, and not the
bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants."
- Stewart Udall
"We are all fools! Blinded
with greed, we rape the earth and declare ourselves its masters. We glut ourselves with the riches, cut the forests down like wheat, and jingling our dollars cannot hear the voice of intolerable unrest within us. Beware America! The earth too has a voice which someday we must answer."
- Frank Waters, The Dust Within the Rock, 1940
"We could have saved the Earth but we
were too damned cheap."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"In the end, we will conserve only what we love; we will
love only what we understand; and we will understand
only what we have been taught."
- Baba Dioum
"We learn from our gardens to deal
with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?"
- Wendell Berry
"Save the whales. Collect the whole
set."
- Author Unknown
"Until he extends the circle of his
compassion to all living things,
man will not himself find peace."
- Albert Schweitzer
"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."
- Jimmy Carter
"If the earth is man's extended body,
to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the greening of America. The idea of 'greening' involves color, flowering, freshness of spring, and, above all, respect for what is organic and vegetative as distinct from the mechanical and metallic."
- Alan Watts, Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown, 1968,
p. 111
"Man has been endowed with reason,
with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep
disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, and the climate's ruined and the land
grows poorer and uglier every day."
- Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
"We say we love flowers, yet we pluck
them.
We say we love trees, yet we cut them down.
And people still wonder why some are afraid
when told they are loved."
"Modern society will find no solution
to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle."
- Pope John Paul II
"Only after the last tree has been cut
down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."
- Cree Indian Prophecy
Simplicity - Quotes for Gardeners
"We must plant the sea and herd its animals. Using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting."
- Jacques Cousteau
"Hurt not the earth, neither the
sea, nor the trees."
- Revelation 7:3
"The frog does not drink up the pond
in which it lives."
- Chinese Proverb
"What we are doing to the forests of
the world is but a mirror reflection
of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another."
- Gandhi
"Upon the rivers which are tributary
to the Mississippi and also upon those which empty themselves into Lake Michigan, there are interminable forests of pine, sufficient to supply all the wants of the citizens … for all time to come."
- Ben C. Eastman, Wisconsin Congressman, 1852
"I have come to terms with the future.
From this day onward I will walk easy on the earth.
Plant trees.
Kill no living things.
Live in harmony with all creatures.
I will restore the earth where I am.
Use no more of its resources than I need.
And listen, listen to what it is telling me."
- M.J. Slim Hooey
"We who revel in nature's diversity
and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction."
- Stephen Jay Gould
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The History of Gardening
Timeline
From Ancient Times to the 20th Century
Quotes
for Gardeners
Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Poetry, Maxims, Quips,
Clichés, Adages, Wisdom
A Collection Growing to Over 2,700 Quotes, Arranged by 130 Topics
Many of the Documents Include Recommended Readings and Internet Links.
Compiled by Michael P. Garofalo
Distributed on the Internet by Michael P. Garofalo
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