Quotes About Environment

The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.

Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life.

I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.

Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater.

We must realize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

Clearly we could devastate the world... as far as we know, the Earth is the only place in the universe where there is life. Its continued survival now rests in our hands

I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.

There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all of the life to be found around them in a real forest.

Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.

Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.

Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

With wrong farming methods, we turn fertile land into desert. Unless we go back to organic farming and save the soil, there is no future.

The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle resulting in injury or disease.

You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.

I want people to understand that design is so much more than cute chairs - that it is first and foremost everything that is around us in our life.

We are all connected to the ocean. Without healthy oceans, no life, not even on land, can exist.

A dwelling should be not a retreat from space, but life in space.

Water is the basis of life and the blue arteries of the earth! Everything in the non-marine environment depends on freshwater to survive.

Keep your own house and its surroundings pure and clean. This hygiene will keep you healthy and benefit your worldly life.

I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.

Keep the weeds of negative influence from your life. 'Farm' the seeds of constructive influence.

Essentially, all life depends upon the soil

Its about cherishing the woodland at the bottom of your garden or the stream that runs through it. It affects every aspect of life.

Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.