Quotes About Environment

The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a second life waiting, suffering can be endured—especially in other people. The natural environment can be used up. Enemies of the faith can be savaged and suicidal martyrdom praised.

I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.

The education of women is the best way to save the environment.

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

The sky settles everything--not only climates and seasons but when the earth shall be beautiful.

This famous building had arisen, that was doomed. To-day Whitehall had been transformed; it would be the turn of Regent Street to-morrow. And month by month the roads smelt more strongly of petrol, and were more difficult to cross, and human beings heard each other speak with greater difficulty, breathed less of the air, and saw less of the sky. Nature withdrew; the leaves were falling by midsummer; the sun shone through dirt with an admired obscurity.

Nature, with all her cruelty, comes nearer to us than do these crowds of men. A friend explains himself; the earth is explicable — from her we came, and we must return to her. But who can explain Westminster Bridge Road or Liverpool Street in the morning — the city inhaling — or the same thoroughfares in the evening — the city exhaling her exhausted air?

The race is now on between the technoscientific and scientific forces that are destroying the living environment and those that can be harnessed to save it. . . . If the race is won, humanity can emerge in far better condition than when it entered, and with most of the diversity of life still intact.

Too paralyzed with self-absorption to protect the rest of life, we continue to tear down the natural environment, our species' irreplaceable and most precious heritage.

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

I will argue that every scrap of biological diversity is priceless, to be learned and cherished, and never to be surrendered without a struggle.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.

Geography means destiny." – Ibn Khaldun

In the first place, you can't see anything from a car.

I don't understand why when we destroy something created by man we call it vandalism, but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.

If you're going to drive a Hummer and buy carbon offsets, that's like getting drunk every night and getting into an AA meeting, throwing money in the basket, and leaving.

Guns and swords are ineffective against the complex and varied assaults of an environment thrown out of natural balance.

One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

Don't only fall in love with people, fall in love with nature. Nature has a lot things to shows.

Keep about the body congenial companionship, or make self express congeniality in whatever environ or sphere of activity the period may carry the body.

Leadership in this environment is categorically humbling because it is virtually impossible for an individual to accumulate enough knowledge to figure out all of the answers. Interdependence and constant change become a way of life in which humility in the face of this complexity has become a critical survival skill.