Quotes About Environment

Culture is the air we breathe all around us.

Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.

You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.

It is important to sensitise children about animal behaviour as it will help develop a healthy curiosity towards nature.

I believe we should be good custodians of the Earth.

I think dealing with climate change should be a centerpiece of any campaign in the 2020 election cycle. Yet I'm the only one with a bipartisan carbon tax bill.

I've started cycling everywhere on my electric bike; it's the best decision I ever made. Best part? The bike does some of the work for you!

If someone is cynical and doesn't vote and ends up with a crummy job in a crummy country with a decimated environment, they only have themselves to blame.

I didn't understand a winning atmosphere until I got to Dallas.

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up.

We are accountable for what happened at Dan River and have learned from this event.

Green roofs, roadside plantings, porous pavement, and sidewalk gardens have been proven to reduce flooding. They absorb rainwater before it swamps the streets and sewage systems.

Companies like Husk Power Systems are working to impact positively not only the environment, but to ensure that someday everyone, including the poorest of the poor in rural India, will have access to clean and affordable electricity.

If I hadn't been inside of Biosphere 2 and really lived a biological life-support system, I definitely would not be involved in life-support systems for space.

Although biodiversity loss continues globally, many countries are significantly slowing the rate of loss by shoring up protected natural areas and the services they provide, and in expanding national park systems with tighter management and more secure funding.

With increasing fervor since the 1980s, sustainability has been the watchword of scientists, environmental activists, and indeed all those concerned about the complex, fragile systems on the sphere we inhabit. It has shaped debates about business, design, and our lifestyles.

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

The things that drive me crazy are coming from this place of people suffering because of people polluting into rivers or whatever. It's not simply just about systems; it's an emotional reaction to seeing animals or people suffering.

Geoengineering involves humans making intentional, large-scale modifications to the Earths geophysical systems in order to change the environment.

One argument against open systems is that they become open to everything, good and bad. Like a Richard Meier skyscraper, the anal retentive, Bauhaus elegance of the Mac does prevent the loose ends and confusion of a less sterile environment. But it also prevents fertility. Apple's development must come from within.

Simple numbers of people of a particular age tell us nothing about the condition of their health, the environment in which they live, and the support systems they can afford to pay for.

What the Ten Million Solar Roofs Act does is provide consumer rebates for the purchase and installation of solar systems.

Whatever happens to the great systems of nature will also be what happens to us.

Resource efficiency is the wrong metric. We should use nature as the measure, using nature's wisdom as a template for our economic systems.