Quotes About Environment

You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after. The physical qualities of a planet are written into its economic and political record.

Nous avons été déracinés. C'est pour cela que nous ne sommes pas à notre aise. Et combien il est facile de tuer une plante déracinée. Surtout lorsqu'on la replante dans un milieu hostile. Sommes-nous certains que ce sol soit hostile?

Kynes passed an unreadable glance across Bewt, said: 'It is said in the desert that possession of water in great amount can inflict a man with fatal carelessness.

study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Always blame conditions, not men

A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.

Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.

Heartless though it may seem to some, among the least harmful things to eat are sustainably culled wild animals. In the absence of natural predators, deer populations in parts of Britain have reached such dense numbers that the woodlands they browse fail to regenerate.

Most Africans don't get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.

I like North Florida because it's much wilder than the rest of the state.

Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we're abusing our planet to the point of almost no return.

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.

As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.

I am very much a city boy, and I really don't get out into the countryside or the wilderness that much at all.

I'd much rather be in the expanse of the wilderness because it feels like part of my world. It's a unique perspective. You're this tiny speck in a huge environment, and it's nice to be reminded of that.

We as mountaineers have had a leading role in the destruction of the mountain wilderness environment that we practice our sport in.

Humans pull together in an odd way when they're in the wilderness. It's astonishing how few people litter and how much they help one another. Indeed, the smartphone app to navigate the Pacific Crest Trail, Halfmile, is a labor of love by hikers who make it available as a free download.

We need to protect our wilderness areas and national parks. Everywhere you travel, you see blight, denuded mountains, logging. If people know what's going on, they'll become activists to safeguard those places.

'Hanna' has grown up in mother nature's beautiful wilderness and that's what she knows. So for someone like me who has always had a life in the city, it was a chance to look beyond social conventions.

Climate change joined immigration, job creation, food safety, pilot training, veterans' care, campaign finance, transportation security, labor law, mine safety, wildfire management, and scores of executive and judicial appointments on the list of matters that the world's greatest deliberative body is incapable of addressing.

Due to climate change, wildfires are growing in size, frequency, and intensity, and wildfire seasons are becoming longer.

If you can reach out and touch and love and be with wildlife, you will forever be changed, and you will want to make the world a better place.