Quotes About Environment

The power of the enlightened being to affect his or her environment is immense. The enlightened mind can landscape worlds, preserve planets, save whole environments, create buddhaverses. The enlightened being is almost like a god. (p. 150)

Learning, like oxygen, is something imbibed from the atmosphere about one.

WHO WE ARE IS WHERE WE ARE Whenever

ethology—the study of animals in their natural settings.

People rarely make decisions in a vacuum; in other words, our choices are almost always influenced by context,

A wise business executive once said that in order to "grow as a leader" a person must feel "a strong will to modify the environment to make it better, then create challenging situations that (he or she) can't get out of except by changing.

protect biodiversity. It has used its political muscle in Washington to fight moves in other nations to ban

Leave this world a little better than you found it.

Tisíce chlapc? ztrácíme každý den tím, že je necháváme vyr?stat v bezcharakterní, neužite?né lidi. Mnozí z nich by mohli být zachrán?ni, kdyby vyr?stali v dobrém prost?edí a v dobrých podmínkách práv? v tom životním období, kdy jsou vnímaví a schopní zm?ny.

I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!

Furthermore, both Pennsylvania and New Jersey Departments of Environmental Protection have evaluated the sediment to be dredged and also found it to be not toxic.

The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper.

It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild.

If man were relieved of all superstition, and all prejudice, and had replaced these with a keen sensitivity to his real environment, and moreover had achieved a level of communication so simplified that one syllable could express his every thought, then he would have achieved the level of intelligence already achieved by his dog.

Un cri, un bruit. Leur résonance nous fait deviner une maison, une forêt, une plaine, une montagne. Leur rebond nous indique des distances.

If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Leave the campground cleaner than you found it.

An almost infinite diversity of structures compete against the environment.

Heaven, for the climate. Hell, for the company.

I drew on Under a Green Sky and The Medea Hypothesis, by the reliably pessimistic Peter Ward

The environment we operate in may be different, but the brain is essentially the same, and its power to learn, adapt, and master time is universal.

Fear is not designed to make us feel that we are fragile creatures in an environment full of danger. Its function is to stimulate powerful physical responses, allowing an animal to retreat in time. After the event, it is supposed to go away. An animal that cannot let go of its fears once the threat is gone will find it hard ro eat and sleep.

Mother Nature is punishing us, ..., for our greed and selfishness. We torture her at all hours by iron and wood, fire and stone. We dig her up and dump her in the sea. We sink mine shafts into her and drag out her entrails - and all for a jewel to wear on a pretty finer. Who can blame her if she occasionally quivers with anger? - Pliny, Pg. 176

the struggle [for existence] almost invariably will be most severe between the individuals of the same species, for they frequent the same districts, require the same food, and are exposed to the same dangers. CHARLES DARWIN, On the Origin of Species (1859)