Quotes About Environment

Over a large range of cases, environmental problems arise from our entirely reasonable habit of taking the benefits of our activities, while passing on the costs. The environment is degraded because we externalize the costs of what we do; and the solution is to find the motives that will return the costs to the one who creates them.

Before you are fully aware of anything else, you are aware whether you are awakening in your own bed.

The nearby Hopis danced and prayed for rain. His people did not. They sought to live with their environment rather than to control it.

Raping a planet involves considerable expense. Enormous blasters and slicers and sluicers and refiners are required to reduce a world back almost to a state of primal chaos, and then to extract from it its essential (i.e., commercially viable) ingredients. The history books may tell you of strip-mining on the mother planet, back in ancient times. Well, the crude processes employed then were similar in emphasis and results, but the operations were considerably smaller in size.

having an adventure is sometimes just a matter of going out and allowing things to happen in a strange and amazing new environment—not so much a physical challenge as a psychic one.

If you view the world as a predominately hostile place, it will be," wrote Ed Buryn.

By the time of "A Full Vindication," Hamilton had clearly assumed the coloring of his environment.

We realized that public sentiment would be against us if we actually refined all the oil.

You are what you inhabit.

The international students at the college occupied an uneasy place in this charged racial environment. Students from Africa, Latin America, and Asia, as well as a number of Hawaiians, formed the core of the International Club, which Qutb joined. The college also hosted a small Middle Eastern community, including recent Palestinian refugees

Every island he had ever been on had a garbage problem.

Delegation. Rule one in the modern environment. Especially against a guy so big.

recycled hemp fibers by one-eyed

Do bears shit in the woods?

Rush hour in LA started thirty years ago. It'll finish when the oil runs out.

I felt laden. Air itself has weight and mass, and Kansas had the most air of anywhere I'd ever been.

Dr. Melvin Connors sums it up nicely in just three words: culture stretches biology

La decadencia llega cuando el hombre deja de fijarse en la naturaleza

It's absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we've got rockets, we've got saran wrap – FIX IT!!!

Earth Day was created because we were doing a lot of drugs, more drugs than you could ever f@*! imagine. And so we came up with Earth Day, so we'd have one day that would remind us what planet we were living on.

Forget the damned motor car and built cities for lovers and friends .

If we had better hearing, and could discern the descants of sea birds, the rhythmic tympani of schools of mollusks, or even the distant harmonics of midges hanging over meadows in the sun, the combined sound might lift us off our feet.

The oldest, easiest to swallow idea was that the earth was man's personal property, a combination of garden, zoo, bank vault, and energy source, placed at our disposal to be consumed, ornamented, or pulled apart as we wished.

Sometimes you had to become a different version of yourself to move safely through certain spaces in the world.