Quotes About Environment

We have an arsenal of ideas about land use possibly as dangerous to human life on the planet as the use of nuclear arms.

I play a bad boy on television, but in real life I have a passion for nature and nature conservancy, specifically bird rehabilitation.

No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.

Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.

Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.

Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.

Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful if man's destiny were not equally so?

The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.

Sustainable development is a process which enables all people to realise their potential and to improve their quality of life in ways which protect and enhance the Earth's life support systems

The beauty of the environment is an important factor in the quality of life.

The health of life on Earth depends on its oceans. But unless we save our seas from the growing mounds of pop bottles, cigarette butts and plastic trash, soon there won't be much healthy sea left.

Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.

The reality of life is that we are exposed to a multiplicity of toxic substances.

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).

No other animal on earth has portrayed such a disregard for life than mankind.

With a healthy environment all our lives are enriched - without it our lives are diminished. The environment is and will always be number one - One Life, One World, Our Future.

We have all heard of the web of life. The way we live threatens to trap us in a web of death.

The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth.

That's what people do when they find a special place that wild and full of life, they trample it to death.

On your life, underestimating the proclivities of finches is likely to lead to great internal hemorrhaging.

Now that we're essentially an indoor species, walled off from the world of other life forms, we're divorced from the very domain that supports and sustains our lives.

The push for us to throw perfectly good things away and buy new things to replace them so that somebody else can get rich--an idea that goes against our own basic instincts and common sense--still holds us in thrall. We are married to a disposable economy dependent on waste.

We're putting everything in the ocean on a plastic diet.

Garbage has become one of the most accurate measures of prosperity in twenty-first century America and the world.