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Quotes About Environment

Everyone is called to live their lives right now in the kingdom of God, to practice now as if they were already in the fullness of the presence of the God of peace. As we do, we will reject every form of violence, from war and executions to racism and sexism to nuclear weapons and corporate greed to destructive behavior to the creatures and Mother Earth.
~ John Dear
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
~ John Dewey
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
~ John Dewey
We live within the environment. So that directly relates with our survival, our life. So through that way, more concern of well being of humanity, then naturally concerned about environment.
~ Dalai Lama
Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
~ Don DeLillo
Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.
~ Hayao Miyazaki
If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins.
~ Henry Williamson
You have a whole life in the outdoors, you realize you have a sense of responsibility to protect these wild places.
~ Yvon Chouinard
Never underestimate the effect of clutter on your life.
~ Karen Kingston
Around the world today people are spontaneously spawning a culture dedicated to creating conditions conducive to life.
~ Kenny Ausubel
Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended on direct contact with matter in the water or the air.
~ Lyall Watson
Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
I never say "Action" or "Cut." Never. I think that would disturb the life from happening in and around everything.
~ Ramin Bahrani
The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.
~ Albion Fellows Bacon
Create the space and a bigger life happens
~ Alysia Reiner
The majority of life on Earth is microbial
~ Caleb Scharf
But we have to look after mother nature so she can look after us - the water, the soil, the air and all the life within it.
~ Costa Georgiadis
What I wanted to try and figure out was, okay, in contemporary 21st century life the alienation between the self and the land around you or the self and even the urban landscape. You name it.
~ DJ Spooky
The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.
~ E. O. Wilson
The smell of rain is rich with life.
~ Estela Portillo Trambley
A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design!
~ Neil Tierney
Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?
~ Patrick Ness
I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.
~ T. Boone Pickens
Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
~ Will Durant