Quotes About Environment

Think of your goal as giving your child a kind of inoculation, providing him with the unconditional love, respect, trust, and sense of perspective that will serve to immunize him against the most destructive effects of an overcontrolling environment or an unreasonable authority figure.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

In his writings, Dr. Burke-Owens proposed a theory of personality that placed nature over nurture, stating there was no way to change a child's core personality. Not only was the brain hardwired, he proposed, but the soul was as well. There was no way to escape one's personal genetics, despite a healthy environment, and this did not bode well for Frances and Bridget and Vincent.

It had been raining, that gray, unpoetic rain of midwinter in a dreary suburb.

The wind," Mary said again. "It was making everyone tear up.

Children who are respected learn respect. Children who are cared for learn to care for those weaker than themselves. Children who are loved for what they are cannot learn intolerance. In an environment such as this they will develop their own ideals, which can be nothing other than humane, since they grow out of the experience of love.

Accordingly, he came to believe that his immediate environment was the world itself.

It was comparable to getting sick from bad ventilation

Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.

I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions -- those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

They think they can kill a continent—people, trees, buffalo—and then fly off to the moon and just forget about it. But you and me we're going to remember the people, the trees and the fucking buffalo. Goddammit.

Of what was plastic made? What died? He knew it was a product of petroleum, of oil, and so he assumed plastic was made out of the very lifeblood of the planet. When all the oil was drained, he imagined the planet quaking and shrinking in on itself, like a squeezed orange that has been sucked to death. He

whenever you go someplace, you meet it, as if it were alive, which of course it is.

each house is a heavy footprint on the Earth.

HELPED are those who find the courage to do at least one small thing each day to help the existence of another—plant, animal, river, or human being. They shall be joined by a multitude of the timid. H

work to make the routine drinking of bottled water a distant nightmare. Water was not meant to be polluted, any more than human blood, which is mostly water, is meant to be contaminated. How dare we bring anyone into the world who must, anywhere on earth, run from rain?

It shouldn't be an afterthought. The right environment around you can make whatever job you're doing pleasurable, no matter how small the task.

In the United States alone, about 30 to 40 percent of our entire food supply is wasted every year, according to estimates from the USDA. I find that particularly sad.

Alistair Moffat

Earth pollution identical with Mind pollution, consciousness Pollution identical with filthy sky

Brainwash cried Romney, the Governor of Pollution

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

There is no place, it seems, free from the intrusion of Man, who stretches out his hand for everything, even that which is in the air.

I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.