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
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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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