Quotes about Environment

Here's the next section of quotes from my book 1000 Great Quotations for Business, Management & Training.

It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

Dan Quayle, US Vice President (1918-1996)

Dan Quayle

Any fine morning a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.

Edwin Way Teale, US naturalist, photographer (1899-1980)

We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

Haida Indian saying

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Greek proverb

The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts life.

William James, US philosopher, psychologist (1842-1910)