Ecology Proverbs and Sayings

"Mother planet is showing us the red warning light - "be careful" - she is saying. To take care of the planet is to take care of our own house".

( The Dalai Lama)

" The people do not make the land, it is the land that

makes the people".

( Proverb)

" The deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers … the earth is our motherland … all things are connected like the blood which unites one family"

Chief Seattle (in a letter to

U.S. President Franklin Pierce, 1854)

"Together we are strong."

( Proverb)

" The Nation that destroys its soil

destroys itself".

(F. Roosevelt)

" When the last tree is cut down and the last fish killed, the last river poisoned, then

you will see that you can not eat money".

( Greenpeace message)

" A man's home is his castle"

( Proverb)

" The first wealth is health"

(Emerson)

" We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behaviour and even thought in the measure to which we are responsible to it".

( L. Durrell)

"Look after this planet, it's the only one we have"

( Prince Philip of Britain)

" Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products."

( William Ralph Inge)

" You could cover the whole world

with asphalt, but sooner or later

green grass would break through".

(Erenburg)

" Seeing is believing." ( Proverb)

" Nature never did betray

</<font color="#ff9900"> The heart that loved her".

( W. Wordsworth)

" Handsome is as handsome does"

( Proverb)

"We never know the value of water till the well is dry"