Environment

• "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It't the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." George W. Bush

• "Right now the environment movement is a perfect bogyman for us. In order to get people to join and donate money [to us] we need opposition." Alan Gottlieb, Centre for the Defence of Free Enterprise.

• "It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little." - Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905

• "What good is a house, if you haven't got a decent planet to put it on?" - Henry David Thoreau

• "On our crowded planet there are no longer any internal affairs!" - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

• "The supreme reality of our time is ...the vulnerability of our planet." - John F. Kennedy

• "Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit." - Edward Abbey (1927-1989)

• "Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money." - Cree Indian Proverb

• "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children." - Native American Proverb

• "Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time."

• "Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind." - David Ehrenfeld, The Arrogance of Humanism, 1978

See also

• Conservation