Quotes About Environment

If your environment is like Rat Park—a safe, happy community with lots of healthy bonds and pleasurable things to do—you will not be especially vulnerable to addiction. If your environment is like the rat cages—where you feel alone, powerless and purposeless—you will be.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

To tackle climate change you don't have to reduce your quality of life, but you do have to change the way you live

The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.

I think the future of architecture does not lie so much in continuing to fill up the landscape, as in bringing back life and order to our cities and towns.

Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.

Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.

To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full picture of the world.

Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet

It's not the rooms, it's the life you live in them

For the first time since life appeared on earth, one species- us- is single-handedly altering the physical, chemical and biological nature of earth. We have become a force of nature

The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.

Any astronaut can tell you you've got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.

Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.

Teddy Roosevelt of course was a great outdoorsman all his life.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?

We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life.

Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.

We live in uncertain times when it comes to the future of life on Earth.

The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally.

Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization. To live permanently away from the country is a form of slow death.

The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life.

Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.