Quotes About Green Living

Published on May 18 2010, in the categories: green materials


Green has outcomed by far its role of a plain color, and has become more and more a way of living today. Overcrowded cities with too much pollution, genetic modified products, unhealthy food and many others more have made us alienate ourselves from nature and adopt an unhealthy living style. This is why, in the last decade, more and more people have come to the conclusion that if we don't respect nature, we don't respect ourselves, and, in the end, we will be the ones to suffer. So it comes as no surprise that now millions of people worldwide are trying to adopt a more healthy living style by protecting the nature and living green.

About this particular type of lifestyle, the green living, there are one too many topics opened and people are talking about it over and over again. So, if you are too an ecologyst, or at least a person who tries not to harm the environment and give a hand to those who try to do more than that, maybe you will get inspired by some of the following quotes and, who knows, act furter in protecting nature.
"Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents. It was loaned to you by your children"
- Kenyan Prover
“Sustainable development is a dynamic process which enables all people to realise their potential, and to improve their quality of life, in ways which simultaneously protect and enhance the Earth's life support systems."
- (Forum for the Future Annual Report 2000).
"We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people."
- Mikhail Gorbachev
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
- Albert Einstein


"We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go to."
- Terri Swearingen
"Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant."
- Aldous Huxle
"The best friend of earth of man is the tree. When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources on the earth."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
"There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew."
- Marshall McLuhan


"The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous and enduring and thus more intelligent, even competitive."
- Paul Hawken
"Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man."
- Stewart Udall
"The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity. "
- Jean Houston


And, to sum up, here is the true quintessence of life: "I believe in God, only I spell it Nature." - Frank Lloyd Wright Architect
Indeed, if we love God, we have to love nature.
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