WATER AND ECOLOGY IN ENGLISH LITERATURE( QUOTES)

Through our history there were always poets who were aware how important was to protect the Nature and how water and air polution affected plants and organisms living in seas,rivers,lakes…. Many poets like Wordsworth,Shelly,Keats,Byron ect. have always been celebrated for their love of Nature.

Wordsworth` s poems reveal an intimate bondig with native world.One of the most celebrated native poets is John Ruskin.Ruskin,like Wordsworth, belived Nature to be the best teacher for men and that ”all other efforts in education were in vain till you have taught your people to love fields,birds and flowers.”

William Morns was another poet who wrote about ecological themes.His song ˝The Earthly Paradise˝ advises the reader to: ˝... dream of London,small and white,and clean, The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green…˝

For Emerson nature was the source of beauty,peace and privacy.In his essay ˝Nature˝ he says: ˝We are as much strangers in nature as we are aliens fom God.We do not understand the notes of the birds. The fox and the deer run away from us,the bear and the tiger rend us.˝

Here are some famous quotes: ˝You wouldn`t think you could kill an ocean,would you?But we’ll do it one day.That’s how negligent we are.˝ Ian Rankin

“The Earth doesn’t belong to man, man belongs to Earth.” - Chief Seattle

“Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.” -William Wordsworth

“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the flower leaves on the heel of the one that crushed it.” -Mark Twain

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfull committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” -Margaret Mead

“Nature is painting for us day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.” - John Ruskin

“Knowing trees I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.” -Hal Borland

“Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.” - Sir Francis Bacon

“Come forth into the light of things. Let Nature be your teacher.” -William Wordsworth

“Nature is slow, but sure she works no faster than need to be; she is the tortoise that win the race by her persistence.” -Henry David Thoreau

“There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story." -Anonymous

“If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no reason.” -Jack Handey

“It’s easier to get free WiFi than it is to get free water and people act like nothing’s wrong with the world” -Anonymous

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