Quotes About Environment

be made of the wind's actual speed

Wind is lord and change is sovereign of the strand.

Plenty more birds in the sea, the man said. Plenty more plastic bottles.

Mess up my climate, I'll fuck with your lives. Your lives are a nothing to me. I'll yank daffodils out of the ground in December. I'll block up your front door in April with snow and blow down that tree so it cracks your roof open. I'll carpet your house with the river. But I'll be the reason your own sap's reviving. I'll mainline the light to your veins.

Ara mateix hi ha criatures que baixen a les mines, diu ella, en aquest instant, a les 13:04 que són ara. Saps que és així. Treuen cobalt de les mines per als cotxes elèctrics que són tan respectuosos amb el medi ambient.

Like always having the sound of someone drilling a hole in a wall, not your wall, but a wall like very close to you, George said. Like, say you wake up one morning to the noise of someone along the road having work done on his or her house and you don't just hear the drilling happening, you feel it in your own house, though it's actually happening several houses away.

I'm composed when it comes to compost.

Children who are respected learn respect. Children who are cared for learn to care for those weaker than themselves. Children who are loved for what they are cannot learn intolerance. In an environment such as this, they will develop their own ideals, which can be nothing other than humane, since they grew out of the experience of love.

I love that color of green, as dark as you can get. I want to be in a dark green place.

My history and civilization are literally melting; everyone knows.

Os nossos órgãos de percepção - os olhos, os ouvidos, o sistema nervoso e o cérebro em si - funcionam em stereo, mas produzem uma visão holográfica do noaso ambiente.

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

That the winter snow is less deep than it was when we were children, the crabs fewer under the rocks by the shore, the birds at dawn too quiet, the forest oddly lonesome. That the weather and seasons have become strangers to us. And that we, the human species, are in one way or another responsible.

The advantage of learning is that it allows you to find out about your particular environment. The disadvantage is that until you do find out, you don't know what to do; you're helpless. We may have two evolutionary gifts: great abilities to learn about the world around us and a long protected period in which to deploy those abilities.

If you have this deep feeling of empathy for the natural world, you feel it so profoundly. It's almost a religious experience. I feel that I could never really say the depth of feeling or connection I feel to the natural world, which has made me.

The same people who struggle to save the snail-darter bless the pill, worry about hunting deer and defend abortion. Reverence for nature, mastery of naturewhichever is convenient. The principle of contradiction has been repealed.

The tree feels splintery, nasty to my touch; it feels Floridian, more reptile than vegetable, more stucco than stone. I do loathe this state, their Elba.

Burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars. And we are burning in Africa, every single year, more than one billion hectares.

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

I am driven by a profound belief in taking meaningful actions that advance the wellbeing of humanity and his environment. I believe that each individual has a role to play regardless of the level, capacity, or sector involved, for we all share a collective responsibility. My lifelong career objective is to embody the principles of living, loving, learning, and leaving a lasting legacy that positively impacts the world.

I am driven by a profound belief in taking meaningful actions that advance the wellbeing of humanity and his environment; and I believe that each individual has a role to play regardless of the level, capacity, or sector involved, for we all share this collective responsibility.

Circumstances will determine what I term the survival value of humankinds moral compass. Being highly moral in an immoral environment will almost certainly be detrimental to ones survival and vice versa.

I voted against H.R. 1119, which would weaken emissions standards for coal refuse power plants.

As congressional Republicans and the Trump administration continue to attack the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), it came as no surprise that the House voted on two bills that would weaken emissions standards and, as a result, put our public health at risk.