Quotes About Environment

But at the other end of the spectrum, they continued, are four 'ice-obligate' species that depend on sea ice as a platform for hunting, breeding, and resting, and for which future prospects are dim indeed. They listed the walrus as one of those species; bearded and ringed seals were two of the other three ... the fourth member of the afore-mentioned 'ice-obligate' club, is, of course, the polar bear.

So that's why Ivy always used canvas bags . It wasn't because she was especially eco-minded. They were quiet.

The energy tasted like books, and I imagined we were still in the semipublic areas.

Where was our language of reverence? Of sacredness? Every year in America we add hundreds of words to our dictionaries that describe our infatuation with pop culture and technology, but none that describe a deepening regard for the natural world.

Every year in America we add hundreds of words to our dictionaries that describe our infatuation with pop culture and technology, but none that describe a deepening regard for the natural world.

The real locals were like fish in water, unaware and unimpressed.

We've been paying a fraction of what things really cost to make, but meanwhile the planet, and the workers who made the stuff, take the unpaid costs right in the teeth.

Kim Stanley Robinson

History is humankind trying to get a grip. Obviously not easy. But it could go better if you would pay a little more attention to certain details, like for instance your planet.

a postcarbon landscape, each

Kim Stanley Robinson

A map is the representation of a landscape, after all, and many landscapes, like Orange County's, are principally psychic.

Kim Stanley Robinson

We were simply strip-mining the lifeworld, as one Germanic voice from the screen put it, sounding like Werner Herzog to a lot of us, and I have no doubt he could have been involved, and that in German words like lifeworld would be real words already.

The morning Post included an article informing Charlie that a chunk of the Ross Ice Shelf had broken off, a chunk more than half the size of France.

The reds say that the Mars that is already here is nature. But it is not nature, because it is dead. It is only rock. The greens tell this, and say they will bring nature to Mars with their terraforming. But that is not nature either, that is only culture.

most economists are still working within the empty-world model of economics.

Extra time was spent on the farms in every biome, and in watching the feed from Earth.

Kim Stanley Robinson

even Deinococcus radiodurans perishes in it.

Kim Stanley Robinson

What's good is what's good for the land.

Kim Stanley Robinson

But it isn't right! I mean I look at this land and, and I love it. I want to be out on it traveling over it always, to study it and live on it and learn it. But when I do that, I change it— I destroy what it is, what I love in it.