Environmental Protection Quotes

“What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
― Henry David Thoreau, Familiar letters

“In my world, you don’t get to call yourself “pro-life” and be against common-sense gun control — like banning public access to the kind of semiautomatic assault rifle, designed for warfare, that was used recently in a Colorado theater. You don’t get to call yourself “pro-life” and want to shut down the Environmental Protection Agency, which ensures clean air and clean water, prevents childhood asthma, preserves biodiversity and combats climate change that could disrupt every life on the planet. You don’t get to call yourself “pro-life” and oppose programs like Head Start that provide basic education, health and nutrition for the most disadvantaged children...The term “pro-life” should be a shorthand for respect for the sanctity of life. But I will not let that label apply to people for whom sanctity for life begins at conception and ends at birth. What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end at birth.”
― Thomas L. Friedman

“Because, underneath all of this is the real truth we have been avoiding: climate change isn’t an “issue” to add to the list of things to worry about, next to health care and taxes. It is a civilizational wake-up call. A powerful message—spoken in the language of fires, floods, droughts, and extinctions—telling us that we need an entirely new economic model and a new way of sharing this planet. Telling us that we need to evolve.”
― Naomi Klein

“The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the global rich -- like me -- live in post-scarcity society, while a billion people struggle to get enough to eat. And we're pushing the planet towards a tipping point, where the corals die and the forests burn and life becomes much, much harder. We have the resources to solve those problems, even now, but politics and economics and nationalism all get in the way. If we could access all those minds, though...”
― Ramez Naam, Crux

“Quand on a terminé sa toilette du matin, il faut faire soigneusement la toilette de la planète.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Environmental cleanliness begins with individual desire to be clean.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Cleanliness begins with the love for godliness”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Mother Earth is a living organism, forests are the lungs of the planet, soil is the womb, oceans are blood - climate change is the planet having fever, in response to the human virus.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Kakor je nemogoče izmeriti srečo, lahko pa izmeriš srčni utrip, tako je nemogoče jasno izmeriti strošek sosedove gnojnice v tvojem potoku, lahko pa izmeriš število ljudi, ki iz tvoje doline vsak mesec romajo na onkološki oddelek v Ljubljani.”
― Nataša Kramberger, Po vsej sili živ

“Nature is the greatest laboratory, where science discovers its secrets and technology shapes its future.”
― Devi Priyanka, Chakra Babu

“As the woods burn and charcoal forms, the scent of the Earth’s soul rises—an end, a transformation, or perhaps the voice of Earth crying out for help.”
― RemaThankappan

“Nature is not owned, but entrusted—her silence is not consent.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“According to analysis by Scottish Environment LINK, Scottish Natural Heritage's overall budget allocation fell from £80.5 million in 2010-11 to £46.5 million in 2019-20, a 42 per cent reduction in real terms. In the same period the budgets of the government's other environment advosory agencies were also slashed, SEPA's by 34.4 per cent and RESAS's (Rural & Environmental Science & Analytical Services) by 41 per cent. In the severity of these cuts, we saw the divide between rhetoric and reality, between the government's stated commitment to the environment and their true financial investment.”
― Tom Bowser, Waters of Life: Fighting for Scotland’s Beavers

“Earth Engineer (Sonnet 2336)

Earth has abundant resources to suffice our need,
but no planet has enough to suffice our greed.
Earth is rich, earth is bountiful, like a doting
mother, she provides for all her kids.

There is no economic depression,
only addiction of power and money.
There is no population explosion,
only outbreak of egocentricity.

What's the point of your architecture or engineering
degree, if you can't build a human habitat without
destroying entire ecosystems of other living things!
And you call yourself an engineer, an architect -
a sparrow has more sense than a stupid earthling.

Reach for the stars all you want,
but anchor your soul in the soil.
Human blood deficient of salt from earth,
leads to a history of mental turmoil.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“What's the point of your architecture or engineering degree, if you can't build a human habitat without destroying entire ecosystems of other living things!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Reach for the stars all you want,
but anchor your soul in the soil.
Human blood deficient of salt from earth,
leads to a history of mental turmoil.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“What's the point of your architecture or engineering degree, if you can't build a human habitat without destroying entire ecosystems of other living things! And you call yourself an engineer, an architect - a sparrow has more sense than a stupid earthling.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“In English we say: the grass is greener on the other side. In Naskarian we say: Earth is greener when it belongs to all.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“I'm not a vegetarian, I could eat anything if it's well cooked and tastes good, but preservation of wildlife is nonnegotiable, because it is only by preserving biodiversity, that we ensure a sustainable planet for humanity. It is one thing to consume animals for food, and another to destroy entire ecosystems for profit. There is nothing wrong in development, but development founded on destruction of nature, is the most expensive ticket to human extinction.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Wipe out America, Peace will flourish.
Wipe out the Humans, Nature will flourish.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“A Montreal entrepreneur recounts his expeditions to protect biodiversity”
― L’Actualité

“The Human Virus (Climate Summon)

Mother Earth is a living organism,
forests are the lungs of the planet,
soil is the womb, oceans are blood -
climate change is the planet having fever,
in response to the human virus.

Economy rooted in greed is not growth,
religion rooted in dogma is not holy,
innovation rooted in vanity is not science,
abundance without wholeness ruins the society.

Earth doesn't need our consent to wipe us out,
any more than we asked permission from corona virus.
Cosmos carries no fury like a mother done wrong -
Mother brings us into the world, mother can take us out.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Climate change is the planet having fever, in response to the human virus.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Plastiphobic by instinct, eco-conscious by choice, nature-aligned by life.”
― Rema Thankappan

“We promote
tobacco as “tradition”
junk food as “lifestyle”
sealed concrete boxes as “modern homes”
chemicals as “beauty”
engineered wood as “luxury”
pollution as “development”
Advertisements and bloggers actively support ill-health,
while calling it progress.
This is not development.
This is a slow, sponsored collapse.”
― Rema Thankappan

“Animals live within ecological limits.
Humans try to bend ecology to their will.
Collapse follows.”
― Rema Thankappan

“Humans poisoned rivers and the air we breathe.
Humans cut shade, fruit, and forests.
Humans poisoned insects, animals, and birds.
Humans broke the soil and called it progress.
Humans named destruction “development.”
Humans changed the seasons.
And the innocent paid —
with hunger, restlessness, and silence —
for human greed.”
― Rema Thankappan

“Humans should not think too much.
Too much thinking creates short actions.
Thinking far creates protection.”
― Rema Thankappan

“Birds and animals live without destruction.
They take only what they need — without ego.
They sustain ecosystems
and obey nature’s law.
They do not pretend,
they do not compete,
they do not judge,
they do not exploit.
Humans need to relearn Pro-Life.”
― Rema Thankappan

“When insects disappear, farming fails.
When poison enters, soil dies.
A farmer needs life — not chemicals — to cultivate.”
― Rema Thankappan