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Quotes About Environment

Everything in the service needs to preach - architecture, lighting, songs, prayers, fellowship, the smell - it all preaches. All five senses must be engaged to experience God.
~ Mark Driscoll
Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings.
~ Graham Greene
To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a unity and a prayer. Unity within and without.
~ Thomas Merton
Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.
~ Alice Waters
Great design is a multi-layered relationship between human life and its environment.
~ Naoto Fukasawa
Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world
~ Satish Kumar
Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and its environmental support systems.
~ Lester R. Brown
In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
~ Wangari Maathai
You become that to which you are most exposed.
~ Denis Waitley
More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture's relationship to nature.
~ Charles Eisenstein
It is also vital that our relationship with nature and the environment be included in our education systems. This is not longer something cute or nice to do; it is now a singular imperative.
~ Lawrence Anthony
Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.
~ Russell Page
My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants.
~ Russell Page
How can you care about the image of a landscape, when you show by your deeds that you don't care for the landscape itself?
~ William Morris
Cada invento de la modernidad nos llega como sacralizado por la idea de que toda novedad supone un avance. Nadie duda que los autos de hoy son mejores que los autos de ayer: pocos piensan que la profileración de los autos está cambiando por un plato de orgullo y comodidad el oxígeno el planeta y el derecho a la capa de ozono
~ William Ospina
To claim the world as created is to claim God's care for it and our responsibility to care for it.
~ William P. Brown
America is like an exotic hothouse plant. It can only live now in the artificial environment of vaccinations, sterilization, and antibiotics we started creating a hundred or more years ago.
~ William R. Forstchen
Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake.... During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast.
~ William Rathje
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
~ William Ruckelshaus
A victim of his environment, the ghetto child begins his school career, psychologically, socially, and physically disadvantaged.
~ William Ryan
Trees are green gold
~ William Sansom
A newborn who is used to this cue-response network learns to trust her caregiving environment.
~ William Sears
As a practical guide, music you can carry on a conversation over is safe. If you have to shout over the noise, it's too loud.
~ William Sears
Third Fisherman:… Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea.First Fisherman: Why, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
~ William Shakespeare