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
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”