Quotes About Environment

Nature in you stands on the very vergeOf her confine.

These trees shall be my books.

And the main fight will be over water, not oil.

We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings, isolated and priestlike in their laboratories. This is not true. The materials of science are the materials of life itself. Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience. It is impossible to understand man without understanding his environment and the forces that have molded him physically and mentally.

The earth says have a place, be what that place requires; hear the sound the birds imply and see as deep as ridges go behind each other.

Solar energy, in its many forms, has accustomed us to the idea that using energy must create huge environmental impacts, either by polluting or by occupying vast tracts of land. Terrestrial energy is so highly concentrated that it can provide us with enormous amounts of energy while barely leaving a trace. Combined with the contributions of solar power, terrestrial energy offers us the opportunity to power the world while eliminating all manners of environmental degradation.

People who have myopia genes and live in modern environments usually develop nearsightedness; people who have myopia genes but live as hunter-gatherers almost never do. So even effects that are largely genetic can at the same time be largely environmental.

The architectural profession has struggled to develop forms of environmental accounting that can guide the design process without overly burdening or complicating it.

Deep breathing at an open window is a wonderful thing unless you live in Los Angeles or down the block from an asbestos plant. Everybody knows that filling your lungs with oxygen is good, but not many people do it. It's like most of the choices you have in life. You know inside what is right. Whether you do it is up to you.

We will speak of what we must do concerning the Frenchman, who now comes as many as the locusts—who drinks the water, burns the wood, and kills the buffalo of our hunting grounds, so that the Shoshone people may one day have not enough to eat.

what we must do concerning the Frenchman, who now comes as many as the locusts—who drinks the water, burns the wood, and kills the buffalo of our hunting grounds, so that the Shoshone people may one day have not enough to eat.

We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.

We shape our buildings and they shape us.

There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.

Kenneth Boulding's bon mot, 'To believe that the economy can grow forever in a finite world, you have to be a madman or an economist'.

What links the peoples of the world together is no longer the rule of civilization or the interplay of demand and supply, but their shared dependence on biophysical life-support systems

We really are the architects of our existence, and our surroundings do reflect precisely what we have built.

Pretty good-looking women, in the main, thanks to the California sun.

Even the vegetable kingdom knows that excellence comes from an environment of excellence (e.g. what the lotus relies on is pure, so impurity cannot stain it; what the cinnamon depends on for its existence is lofty, and thus it will not be weighed down by trivia), how can humans who understand the great relations not search for well-being by following well-being?

Life starts in nature and returns to nature.

The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness

I like to come out here from time to time, just to be, like, blown away by the sheer physicality of this place, y'know?

Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.

Saving the forests is not only a question of money," she said. "There also has to be awareness and education.