Quotes About Environment

The cold was deeper, the dark blacker, the hard air reassuringly Minnesota. We

The buffalo were taking leave of the earth and all they loved," said the old chiefs and hunters after years had passed and they could tell what split their hearts. "The buffalo went crazy with grief to see the end of things. Like us, they saw the end of things and like many of us, many today, they did not care to live." *

She always said that flowers were incidental; if we loved the earth, we couldn't help but bring forth beautiful things.

The log stretched across the stream. It had been there for some time. Sticks, feathers, and debris had caught on stray branches protruding from one end. The stream flowed beneath the log, lazy and blackish-green, just before it widened and joined the Connecticut River. Pine trees grew thick along one bank, while reeds whispered along the other.

I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.

Don't be led away by those howls about realism. Remember-pine woods are just as real as pigsties and a darn sight pleasanter to be in.

Put a man in the wrong atmosphere and nothing will function as it should. He will seem unhealthy in every part. Put him back into his proper element and everything will blossom and look healthy. But if he is not in his right element, what then? Well, then he just has to make the best of appearing before the world as a cripple.

What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it.

We lavish tremendous concern and care on scenery but we ignore the ravaging of environments from which our lives are drawn

When we don't feel connected to a place, it becomes anonymous, and that anonymity is what allows us to be so destructive: we believe we don't have to care about something we know nothing about. We depersonalize the land and then simply take what we want from it, thinking there won't be any consequences. But when we do this, we're actually destroying our own life-support system.

Global avian populations are perilously declining because of human-wrought habitat degradation, and many individual avian injuries are at root human-caused.

Let's draw straws," said David. We used dune grass. We didn't pull it out—Jack warned us not to hurt the plants—but snipped it neatly with a penknife. The shortest blades went to Terry and Rafe

You gotta be a generalist, in the new climate. But that's not enough either. If there's too much poison around. We're talking pesticides, mostly. Agrochemicals everywhere. Take the sparrows. So anyways, I'd pick raven. A raven can kill, but will he eat garbage? Yes. He will.

We must not only protect the country side and save it from destruction, we must restore what has been destroyed and salvage the beauty and charm of our cities ... Once our natural splendor is destroyed, it can never be recaptured. And once man can no longer walk with beauty or wonder at nature, his spirit will wither and his sustenance be wasted.

Transference is that set of ways of perceiving and responding to the world which is developed in childhood and which is usually entirely appropriate to the childhood environment (indeed, often life-saving) but which is inappropriately transferred into the adult environment.

When man's spirit is in chains, he loses all respect for nature.

We want them to see their home planet, Mrs. Whatsit said. The Medium lost the delighted smile she had worn till then. Oh, why must you make me look at unpleasant things when there are so many delightful ones to see? Again Mrs. Which's voice reverberated through the cave. There will no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something about the unpleasant ones.

There will no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something about the unpleasant ones

They've never known a time when people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or swim in any river or brook. The last time I drove to Washington the traffic was so bad that I could have made better time with a horse.

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If learning were purely or even predominantly cognitive, then computers would be adequate and there would be no point in gathering people together in a room. But affects are social, "are there first, before we are" (65). The affective environment influences the nature of cognition: "affects may, at least in some instances, find thoughts that suit them, not the other way around" (7).

No matter how great the rose variety or the quality of the plant, if put in a less-than-ideal location, you'll be waging an uphill battle. A very simple way to have success with roses is to consider

addiction is a learned relationship between the timing and pattern of the exposure to substances or other potentially addictive experiences and a person's predispositions, cultural and physical environment, and social and emotional needs.

Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions . . . by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.