Quotes About Environment

The truth was right there, so simple, a child could grasp it. Trees were responsible for the most basic necessity of life, the air we breathe...cutting down trees was a suicidal act.

Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth. We walk through it, yell into it, rake leaves, wash the dog, and drive cars in it. We breathe it deep within us. With every breath, we inhale millions of molecules of sky, heat them briefly, and then exhale them back into the world.

The man who heard the land was not farming, was not hunting, was not gathering wood for the log pile beside the house, but was an ordinary man driving on a highway, and the car stopped, and he heard the land. He thought it might have been the wind he heard, but knew it was the land. He couldn't understand the words, but he knew the land was speaking.

Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.

We planted a tree and that one tree made the world better.

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

I grew up where the family of butterflies the Silver Cloud is native.

Save the Earth...it's the only planet with chocolate

Equally important is the effect of Last Days thinking on questions of world environmental damage. If the Last Days are coming, it is a profane distraction to bother with problems of pollution or exhaustion of natural resources, which in any case have been supplied in God's providence for humans to use. Hence the Christian Right's long-standing lack of interest in a matter which may bring the Last Days on human civilization, but not in the manner it anticipates.

If horses can't eat it, I won't play on it.

El animal olía a cieno, a mucus, a hojas en descomposición, a algas machacadas, a madera mohosa, a tierra húmeda, el mismo olor sordo, inferior, un poco grasiento, que traía Katsuro cuando volvía del río; y, bajo los pechos de Miyuki, el corazón de la carpa latía con el mismo compás tranquilo, muy majestuoso sin lugar a dudas, que el de Katsuro algunas mañanas, inmediatamente después de haberse acostado con su mujer:

The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.

I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold

A bird & a fish can fall in love, but where do they make a home?

The water was running in the sink. I don't like to hear water running. I get the feeling that time is passing, that the globe's resources are being used up. I get the feeling I'm losing something.

La destrucción voluntaria de una jirafa africana o de un kagú de Nueva Caledonia, en la medida en que compromete la supervivencia misma de tales especies, es el plano filosófico y científico, quizás tan grave como el asesinato de un hombre y tan irreparabale como la laceración de un cuadro de Rafael. Acaba para siempre con un fragmento del pasado. Roger Hein.

Everything that the coils of Pentex touched, everything it produced, was corrupt or toxic.

Battling Pentex in the Amazon was to them a holy war.

Pamela Peeke, lo expresa: "Puede que la genética cargue la pistola, pero el ambiente aprieta el gatillo".

Religious ideas such as the idea of God have functioned as regulative ideals for us to aspire after: we too could become unified and capable subjects; we too could learn how to know the world and reshape our environment to meet our own needs.

Once again, it must be reiterated that beliefs and practices that developed in response to earlier, and presumably different, environmental pressures tend to persist, and the result may come to be far less than efficient utilization of an environment

Excellence cannot happen in the kind of environment that values time constraints above all else, and you certainly cannot harmonize anything within the Gong Dao Bei until arriving at that keen level of spiritual and emotional maturity where a deep appreciation of the ultimate opportunity is felt and understood.

What man calls civilization always results in deserts.

it wont be long now it wont be longman is making deserts of the earthit wont be long nowbefore man will have it used upso that nothing but antsand centipedes and scorpionscan find a living on it