Quotes About Environment

Concrete can rot. It turns green and black before crumbling away. Maybe only people from Congo know that.

How much of who I am is defined by the world around me, and how much is something more innate?

Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!

Somos culpables de haber destruido muchos dones de la naturaleza y de haber perdido toda espiritualidad.

It's so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up again once it's been polluted.

Alma came to consider her library work as a kind of indoor gardening

the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it !

Train them to pay attention to their choices. (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle are good ideas, he would lecture, but those three concepts should only be the last resort. What you really need to focus on are two other words that also begin with R- Reconsider and Refuse. Before you even acquire the disposable good, ask yourself why you need this consumer product. And then turn it down. Refuse it. You can.)

Later in life, when Alma was a woman of science, she would better understand how the introduction of any new element into a controlled environment will alter that environment in manifold and unpredictable ways, but as a child, all she sensed was a hostile invasion and a premonition of doom. Alma did not embrace her interloper with a warm heart. Then again, why should she have? Who among us has ever warmheartedly embraced an interloper?

Maybe you grew up in an environment where people just sat around watching TV and waiting for stuff to happen to them.

Thank heavens we have an earth! Otherwise, where would we sit?" Retta

Our ancestors always operated with a sense of being in a reciprocal emotional relationship with their physical surroundings. Whether they felt that they were being rewarded by Mother Nature or punished by her, at least they were engaged in a constant conversation with her.

The Geographical Distribution of Animals

It all boils down to money and power and to hell with the meadow that's flattened while the elephants and donkeys dance for dollars.

Some people think the big city's a scary place? That's nothing to compare to the backwoods.

If one could only get hold of the children! I sighed, as I went up the steps into the schoolhouse; catch them young, and put them in a garden, with no older people of their own class for ever teaching them by example what is ugly, and unworthy, and gross.

Shoving the ends at him, I headed for the common. It wasn't far away: a green, tree-lined oasis, brightened with many seasonal varieties of Coca-Can discardus, Crisp-packetus-cheese-and-onionus, and the occasional, fragrant dog turd underfoot.

It has come quickly, this crushing, industrial love of paradise. The pervert-free, less-trammeled, hundred-mile-view days were little more than two decades past, not so very long ago. Yet already my own history sounds like another country.

Environmental history is, among other things, a lengthy account of human beings over and over imagining their way into a serious pickle.

What is achieved in blaming a man for being selfish and greedy if he acts under the influence of a social environment and education which teach him that he is an animal and that selfishness and greediness are of the essence of his nature?

Their floe, which had once measured a mile in diameter, was now less than 200 yards across.

and they varied in thickness from about 18 inches to more than 2½ feet.

But since the Endurance was designed to operate in relatively loose pack ice

dead ahead were two inviting glaciers which held the promise of ice to be melted into water.