Quotes About Environment

As this suggests, Jamaica was at once brutally divided by racial difference and violence, and in some respects also a cosmopolitan, even tolerant environment.

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

What a strange alchemy we have worked, turning earth around to destroy itself, using earth's own elements to wound it.

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Our environment either inspires who we want to become or challenges us on what we must avoid.

Man can progress as much as we want. Mother Nature still owns our ass.

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence .

Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.

Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief.

Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.

Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children.

We need a price on carbon that accurately reflects its real costs on our society and our wellbeing.

This is our greatest challenge: learning to live in a crowded and interconnected world that is creating unprecedented pressures on human society and on the physical environment.

A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.

Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!

Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.

To speak of 'limits to growth' under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society.

Ultimately it is by harnessing the natural economic forces which drive society that the pollution tax offers us an opportunity to exert greater control over our environment.

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.

I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society.

Native communities are focal points for the excrement of industrial society.

We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or not based on how we perform as creatures of the city.

Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment.