Quotes About Environment

As our technological capacities continue to increase and our environment becomes ever more fragile and endangered, we find that changes to the Earth that used to take ten thousand years now take a fraction of that.

building, all tinted glass and natural lighting, was nothing like the cement tomb where

That is why Jews succeeded as they did in Europe: Christian Europeans had created an environment in which Jews could thrive. Jews, who had recently been invited to become part of non-Jewish society, found themselves entering a world that was built on ideas that were already deeply entrenched in their own collective mindset.

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At a certain level of wealth, you care more about things like the environment and what's going to happen to later generations than preserving your own money.

No one can control his own opinion or his own belief. My belief was forced upon me by my surroundings. I am the product of all circumstances that have in any way touched me.

No self-respecting blowfly wants to lay eggs in acid.

If the stress resulting from trying to resist change could be transformed into energy, we wouldn't have to worry about coming up with alternatives to fossil fuels.

Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it and our place in it- if we are going to preserve it.

That "telling them where they stand, while giving them the chance to try a new environment, is often enough to get them to change their behavior.

when I am there to visit and get to know the people and how they work, I can't learn much sitting in a private office.

This philosophy means that when you've entered a den of assholes, you do everything possible to get out as fast as you can—or, better yet, to figure out how to avoid that lair in the first place. I call this the "da Vinci rule." As Leonardo da Vinci put it, "It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

sitting in the office with three other

About the best that can be done is to try to place oneself in a position to get lucky. Nothing is certain, but shrewd, well-informed planning, a determined use of every possible advantage, and a continuous awareness and acceptance of an ever-shifting environment can raise the odds.

Stop reading this book a minute. Can you hear something? Some machine turning? A waterpipe running? A distant radio or pneumatic drill digging up the road? Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious.

Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious.

The Aquarium is gone. Everywhere,giant finned cars nose forward like fish;a savage servilityslides by on grease.

The slick bare tar, the same suburban station.

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

We've created a safe, nonjudgemental environment that will leave your child ill-prepared for real-life.

The natural world was a tightly integrated web, and every time humans messed with it, there were as many unintended consequences as there were intentional. But that was a lesson nobody ever seemed to learn. Maybe

The natural world was a tightly integrated web, and every time humans messed with it, there were as many unintended consequences as there were intentional. But that was a lesson nobody ever seemed to learn.

the trees were ancient and old,

All fine stories take place within a limited, knowable world.