Quotes About Environment

Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle...

And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.

Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home.

Please keep off the grass.

You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means evolution.

The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.

To protect this earth is to protect the very spirit of life

The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.

Nature's what it's all about, but our people have been brainwashed into thinking that life is a cell phone against your head and the TV on a beer commercial with hot chicks.

My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place.

I hear hundreds of years of life. I hear wind and rain and fire and beetles. I hear the seasons changing and birds and squirrels. I hear the life of the trees this wood came from.

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

We have the potential for making massive change... and the bottom line is that we can't be the generation responsible for wiping out three-fourths of life forms on the Earth.

As the ongoing industrial crusade to turn all earthly life to commercial purpose relentlessly impoverishes the biosphere and human culture, our living images of graceful possibility dwindle.

The teacher's job is not to transmit knowledge, nor to facilitate learning. It is to engineer effective learning environments for the students. The key features of effective learning environments are that they create student engagement and allow teachers, learners, and their peers to ensure that the learning is proceeding in the intended direction. The only way we can do this is through assessment. That is why assessment is, indeed, the bridge between teaching and learning.

And we really should be considering the moral implications of what we're doing. What kind of a species are we that we treat the rest of life so cheaply? There are those who think that's the destiny of Earth: We arrived, we're humanizing the Earth, and it will be the destiny of Earth for us to wipe humans out and most of the rest of biodiversity. But I think the great majority of thoughtful people consider that a morally wrong position to take, and a very dangerous one.

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

We can in fact only define a weed, mutatis mutandis, in terms of the well-known definition of dirt - as matter out of place. What we call a weed is in fact merely a plant growing where we do not want it.

Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.

Don't eat yellow snow.

Few will doubt that humankind has created a planet-sized problem for itself. No one wished it so, but we are the first species to become a geophysical force, altering Earth's climate, a role previously reserved for tectonics, sun flares, and glacial cycles.