Quotes About Environment

Met with Jim Watt. He's taking a lot of abuse from environmental extremists but he's absolutely right. People are ecology too and they cant forage for food and live in caves.

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do.

where the preservation of a natural resource like the redwoods is concerned, that there is a common sense limit. I mean, if you've looked at a hundred thousand acres or so of trees — you know, a tree is a tree, how many more do you need to look at?

If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.

The islanders, they write: carried out for us the experiment of permitting unrestricted population growth, profligate use of resources, destruction of the environment and boundless confidence in their religion to take care of the future. The result was an ecological disaster leading to a population crash…. Do we have to repeat the experiment on [a] grand scale?… Is the human personality always the same as that of the person who felled the last tree?

The reform that is needed is not anti-capitalist, anti-American, or even deep environmentalist; it is simply the transition from short-term to long-term thinking.

As soon as you went through the door for the first time, you got the feel of the atmosphere, and so discovered something about the personalities of the people who lived there.

There was nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it ourselves.

They slaughtered all the game they could find and so muddied the rivers and creeks with silt that the once plentiful salmon couldn't survive. The herds of elk and deer, the food source for Native Americans, were practically wiped out in one summer.

Je-li v takovéto atmosféÃ…â"¢e lásky možné napodobování zdravých vzor?, pak je dítÄ› ve svém správném elementu. MÄ›lo by se proto pÃ…â"¢ísnÄ› dohlížet na to, aby se v okolí dítÄ›te nedÄ›lo nic, o ?em bychom pak museli dítÄ›ti Ã…â"¢íkat: To nesmíÅ¡ dÄ›lat!

On the other hand, strong feelings were aroused by something else. At that time man was much more active than later. Everything in his environment as well as the images in his soul, stimulated him to activity, to movement. When his activity could proceed without hindrance, he experienced pleasure, but when this activity was hindered in any way, he felt displeasure and discomfort.

Florida from its beginnings has served as a catch basin for the world's detritus.

They won't stop killing the whales. They make dog- and cat-food out of them, face creams, lipstick. They kill the whales to feed the dogs so the dogs can shit on the pavement and the people can walk in it.

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." —ALBERT EINSTEIN Considering

The beaches were overrun with jellyfish these days, the monstrous red stinging kind that that looked like wounds along the shoreline.

As someone who has to teach for a living, I shouldn't be saying this, but the planet can do quite well without books.

Plastic is like that," Oliver was saying. "It never biodegrades. It gets churned around in the gyre and ground down into particles. Oceanographers call it confetti. In a granular state, it hangs around forever.

The United States has lost one-third of its topsoil since colonial times—so much damage in such a short history. Six to seven billion tons of eroded soil, about 85 percent, are directly attributable to livestock grazing and unsustainable methods of farming feed crops for cattle. In 1988, more than 1.5 million acres in Colorado alone were damaged by wind erosion during the worst drought and heat wave since the 1950s.

As we moved from Tokyo the world became greener.

He turned on to the track and wondered why no birds were singing. The only sound he could hear was the buzz and rattle of a drill, which he assumed to be the farmer doing something to a fence. It was, in fact, a woodpecker whose presence would have thrilled him had he known what it was.

The land is sacred. The land gives people life, and that which gives life is sacred.

Everything depends upon how one is placed.