This post contains 15 best environmental quotes from great conversationalists, naturalists and environmental activities:

1. Keep close to Nature's heart … and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. John Muir

2. I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer. Denis Hayes

3. Nature provides a free lunch. But only if we control our appetites. William Ruckelshaus

4. 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

5 .When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. John Muir 5. Listen up , your couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours .

6. Where the quality of life goes down for the environment, the quality of life goes down for humans – George Holland

7. When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change. Cameron Sinclair

8. Really, if it weren't wind, the environment groups would be out there screaming their heads off about the destruction that's going on . Stephanie Kaplan

9. What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet. James Hansen

10. The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody is to get everybody involved. Richard Rogers

11. We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us. O.Henry

12. The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth. Marlee Matlin

13. Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. Aldo Leopold

14. I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment. Pat Buckley

15. The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved . Richard Rogers