Quotes About Environment

Children with loving parents who enjoy them, play with them, and offer guidance and suggestions as they explore their environment will be healthy, emotionally well-adjusted, and psychologically advanced.

The other cars had to pass noisily around us, but there was no anti-parking sign. Through the windshield, we could see another under-bridge area in front of us, and the cars that passed us were forming a line to enter it.

Suburbia: a place where they cut down trees and name streets in their memory.

It was a sunny day in early summer, and he could hear birdsong. In a nearby orchard that had so far escaped shelling, apple trees were blossoming bravely. Men were the only animals that slaughtered their own kind by the million, and turned the landscape into a waste of shell craters and barbed wire. Perhaps the human race would wipe itself out completely, and leave the world to the birds and trees, Walter thought apocalyptically. Perhaps that would be for the best.

the air was thick with coal dust. Was it possible that men breathed this all day? That must be why miners coughed and spat constantly.

It seems that only when Ascending and Descending are united can both be saved. And if we—if you and I—do not contribute to this union, then it is very possible that not only will we destroy the only Earth we have, we will forfeit the only Heaven we might otherwise embrace.

one of the first steps toward an integral postmodernity is the development and establishment of a genuine environmental ethics, or a moral and ethical stance to nonhuman holons.

All the Ping-Pong and pool tables, on-site chefs, Nerf hoops, and stereo systems cannot make up for the truth that some places work people like dogs.

Pero, sea inocente o arrogante, sagrada o profana, la ignorancia es la ignorancia y toda ignorancia destruye la biosfera.

On a day like this, I can't imagine anything better that might happen in a person's life than for them to start paying attention to birds—to become aware of this magical world that exists all around us, unnoticed by many but totally captivating for those who know its secrets. This kind of spring day, with its bountiful myriads of colorful sprites just arrived from tropical shores, has to be one of the greatest gifts of life on Earth.

Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating normally.

The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.

We have turned away from the natural world. Instead, it's all about money and power.

China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction of wind power.

If a power station were to be built down the road, I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner, and definitely over a coal burner. We simply have to lessen our consumption of fossil fuels.

I've always been a big believer in the power of place. I believe that where we are affects who we are when it comes to happiness, spirituality, economics and creative genius.

There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station.

Today, nuclear power provides 20 percent of power in the United States.

Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.

We ought to be using nuclear power. It's a renewable source of energy.

Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.

Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry.

Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.

You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough