Quotes About Environment

These people came into the world and left it bound to their soil, proliferating on their own dung-hills with slow deliberation like the uncomplicated soul of trees which scatter their seed about their feet, with little conception of any larger world beyond the dun rocks among which they vegetated.

If the earth was restful and good to those who loved it, the villagers contaminating it like vermin, those human insects battening on it's flesh, were enough to disgrace it and blight any approach to it.

And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!

No wonder the grass grows up between the flags, and cattle are the only hedge- cutters.

Vancouver city was more beautiful to look at across the water than to be in.

Houses are like lots of Rooms stuck together, TV persons stay in them mostly but sometimes they go in their outsides and weather happens to them.

It stands to reason that those who assault nature will suffer at her hands in the end.

Was genius a weed that sprang up anywhere, or did it need a particular habitat?

We, who pay dearly for every breath of pure, fresh air, must guard against the tendency to fetter the future.

Man is the biggest threat to Earth. We gut the planet of its fossil fuels then turn those same fuels against the planet through global warming... The world's glaciers are losing as much as six feet of ice cover per annum, that's half a million square miles in the Arctic Ocean alone in the past thirty years.

She could see the pollution in them, bleaching their skin white and giving them red sores on their backs. And although she smiled, her heart was breaking.

Es konnte nie schaden zu wissen, wo sich das ortsansässige Getier so rumtrieb.

DNA predisposes a certain behavior, but if your environment doesn't support it, then that behavior won't manifest. When people don't have opportunity, they have to create their own opportunities

Non a McMerde.

Perhaps you can change the wallpaper, but you are less likely to change Uncle Bill, your kids, your established tastes with respect to a living environment, or your resource constraints.

once becoming a mother, a woman might be radicalized in her feminism. She had a greater stake in saving the earth from male politicians. She had a greater stake in education and health, in the environment, in all social policy. She finally understood the way our society makes children and mothers the lowers of priorities. ...... I was hardly mellowed by the maternal transformation. If anything, my feminism grew more fierce.

The adult world moved around us the way fetid water in a fish tank surrounds the little fish within.

Adolescents, malgré les données d'intelligence et de tempérament, nous sommes en grande partie fabriqués par notre éducation, notre milieu, nos parents ; adultes, nous nous fabriquons par nos choix.

Pourquoi la nature aurait-elle accouché d'un poisson si elle n'avait pas inventé l'eau..

Si tu vois ni ordures ni poubelles, c'est très riche.Si tu vois des poubelles e pas d'ordures,c'est riche.Si tu vois des ordures à côté des poubelles,c'est ni riche,ni pauvre,c'est touristique.Si tu vois les ordures sans les poubelles,c'est pauvre. Et si les gens habitent dans les ordures c'est très très pauvre.Ici c'est riche!...Mais oui,c'est la Suisse!

He had heard the voice of London that lives and breathes beneath the rumble of traffic, a voice like the continual high-pitched shriek you hear when you put your head beneath the waves of the sea. It is the sound of millions and millions of creatures living and struggling and dying and being born. It commands those who hear it to eat or be eaten..

A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.