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Quotes About Environment

To be a Naturalist is better than to be a King.
~ William Beebe
Earth's sweat, the sea.
~ Empedocles
The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end.
~ Ernest Thompson Seton
For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.
~ Ellsworth Huntington
He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
No matter if the science is all phoney, there are collateral environmental benefits.... climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.
~ Christine Stewart
I just want to say one word to you-just one word ..."plastics!" ... There's a great future in plastics.
~ Buck Henry
Ecology is the overall science of which economics is a minor speciality.
~ Garrett Hardin
Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.
~ Ernst Haeckel
We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
~ Charles Darwin
Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter.
~ George W. Bush
The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.
~ Daniel Webster
The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.
~ John Muir
The science is in: either we go cold turkey on our coal, oil, and gas addictions, or we risk raising the planet's temperature to a level incompatible with the continued existence of civilization.
~ Richard Heinberg
Technology is that which separates us from our environment.
~ Marshall McLuhan
I don't believe man-made global warming is settled in science enough.
~ Rick Perry
Those who deny the science or choose excuses over action are playing with fire.
~ John F. Kerry
Mankind without Earth is Humanity without a Home
~ S.G. Rainbolt
Climate Change is a bit like our advanced societies. Too late to "fix." The only choice left is that we adapt to what we've created.
~ Shilpa Menon
All our unique human achievements may seem to be the creation of the unique human mind, but they are simply the by- products of our neurobiological response to the environment.
~ Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?
Full spectrum lights should be used in all daytime offices for good health.
~ Steven Magee
If you don't act now, the day is not far, that this beautiful planet of yours, which you call home, shall be turned into a dry barren wasteland by the blood-sucking fundamentalists.
~ Abhijit Naskar
Sustainability before ambition. Okal Rel.
~ Lynda Williams