Quotes About Environment

Rune was taught that leprosy is rarely contagious. The causative bacterium lives in the environment, more so in unclean settings, but only those with unique susceptibility get the disease. He recalls Professor Mehr in Malmö dressing leprous wounds with impunity, saying, "Worry about other diseases you might get from your patients, not leprosy." Indeed, Rune lost one classmate to tuberculosis, and another to sepsis from a scalpel cut.

I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.

The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.

I think we're getting to the point where everyone's getting fat and everyone's getting allergic, or claims to be allergic to something and people can't walk from their front door to their car without a bottle of water in their hand because they have to hydrate every three and half steps.

For about the first two billion years of Earth's history, its atmosphere contained only minute traces of oxygen, even though it had long been a home to life. For

The successful forms of life are the parasites, the ones who bleed their environment to optimal exploitation, who stunt everything by taking a lion's share, who leave their hosts alive but shriveled. We

How could you build a reputation in an environment where the only people who got names were the interns and the sad old retirees who clamber in to relive the glory days? While

The Environmental Handbook appeared in January 1970, and the Sierra Club's Ecotactics came out in April. Both books were largely the work of the young. Both were huge hits. Sales of the handbook reached 1.5 million, while Ecotactics sold 500,000 copies.

The second point is that the world in which we live is shaped by us, by our practices and culture, by our very existence, and our DNA responds to that in turn. Genes change culture, culture changes genes.

scientific research, one that underwrites every single aspect of the life sciences. "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution

These gene maps powerfully suggest that that the Beringian Standstill hypothesis is correct: All Native Americans, north and south, have versions of genes relating to diet that are suited to their current environments, but born of an ancient population subject to local adaptation in the frozen north, thousands of years ago.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

As in everything, nature is the best instructor.

In sum, concern for the environment is expressed in the way that we as individuals and communities react to the perceived state of the environment. Perhaps the worst sin is blindness and indifference which becomes lack of care.

because in times like these to have you listen at all, it's necessary to talk about trees.

I have a big passion for flowers and nature.

You have to focus on what you're passionate about. For me it's the forests and of course, because I'm concerned about the forests, I'm concerned about the way paper is made.

It's no secret - if you know me, have ever met me or have shared a meal with me - that I'm a passionate environmentalist.

The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.

These garbage patches won't go away by themselves.

You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you're not on the path to a clean energy future.

Water keepers patrol local waterways and prosecute polluters. Essentially, they act as the community's coast guard.

When I grew up in central London, we had six pavement slabs for a garden.