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Quotes About Environment

It's clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil society.
~ Richard Branson
Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be.
~ E. F. Schumacher
I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.
~ Victor Hugo
We need a much deeper understanding of exactly what it is our industrial society, in its present creation, is jeopardizing. We need a more profound perception of what is at stake.
~ Van Jones
... the fouling of the nest which has been typical of man's activity in the past on a local scale now seems to be extending to the whole world society.
~ Kenneth E. Boulding
[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo.
~ Lewis H. Lapham
...heaven for climate, and hell for society.
~ Mark Twain
A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space.
~ Marshall McLuhan
I think the less fracking there is, the better it is for the economy and society.
~ Michael Hudson
Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile they are commonly planted too close.
~ William T. Davis
If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings.
~ Robert Patterson
I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.
~ Harri Holkeri
If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
The environmental crisis is fundamentally a spiritual crisis.
~ Thomas Berry
Aboriginal people are key because they have a different sense of where we belong and how we interact with nature.
~ David Suzuki
As we raise ourselves in the spiritual consciousness, we are better able to solve the problems of life. We are happy. We are at home in every environment.
~ Harold Klemp
The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.
~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Vegetarianism is a way of life that we should all move toward for economic survival, physical well-being and spiritual integrity.
~ Thomas Berry
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
~ John Muir
Human beings and the environment compose a seamless garment of existence, a multicolored cloth, which we believe to be woven in its entirety by God.
~ Bartholomaus
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
~ Barbara Kingsolver
In fact, the environmental crisis is related to the crisis of aesthetics, crisis of social cohesion and the crisis of spiritual values.
~ Satish Kumar
The intersection of spiritual, dark music and radical ecology is quite natural.
~ Kristoffer Rygg