Quotes About Environment

birds, and insects.

Vishal was well ahead of his time. Only the other day I read in one of our papers that elephant dung could be converted into good quality paper. Perhaps they'll use it to make bank notes. Reserve Bank, please note.   ?

But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer. And looking around, I noticed the other small trees and wild plants and grasses had sprung up under the protection of the trees we had placed there. The trees had multiplied! They were moving. In one small corner of the world, Grandfather's dream was coming true and the trees were moving again.

You know why there are so many whitefish in the Yellowstone River? Because the Fish and Game people have never done anything to help them.

Learning games are instructional environments that are entertaining enough to motivate play and educational enough to promote learning goals.

The landscape which, a few weeks earlier, had been blotted out by dust was now hazy with moisture.

Clean/renewable energy: The environment is vital to everyone, therefore everyone should vote in favor of clean and renewable energy. The government's of the world should invest properly, appropriately, effectively, and efficiently in this area.

Natural resources are meant to be used, not squandered and abused.

Your mind is not only a result of nature, it is also a result of nurturing.

I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt all over my window.

Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.

Nice place," I said while prudently hovering near the only exit.

We really do not need another nuclear explosion to annihilate life on this planet. Just a successful economy can do it quite effectively!

the many artificial ways in which we distance ourselves from the earth—in the form of pavements and multi-storied structures, or even the widespread trend of wearing high heels—involves an alienation of the part from the whole and suffocates the fundamental life process. This

A reduction of meat consumption by only 10% would result in about 12 million more tons of grain for human consumption. This additional grain could feed all of the humans across the world who starve to death each year- about 60 million people!

These enthusiasts often like to hang signs that say Gone Fishin' or Gone Huntin'. But what these slogans really mean is Gone Killing.

The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, and man's destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man's humanity to man and man's reverence for the place in which he lives.

By the time I wrote this book I had begun to finally figure out that: a) there was a direct relationship between my behavior and those attempts on my life: b) maybe my previous strategy of becoming better at violence instead of not pissing off people needed to be reviewed: c) that there were knowable 'rules' in different environments: d) you could learn them so as not to run afoul with point A.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

Flowers, for instance, because where would we be without them?

As Charles Darwin said,'The economy shown by Nature in her resources is striking,'' says the Spirit. 'All wealth comes from Nature. Without it, there wouldn't be any economics. The primary wealth is food, not money. Therefore anything that concerns the handling of the land also concerns me.

We're using up the Earth. It's almost gone. You can't live with such fears and keep on whistling. The waiting builds up in you like a tide. You start wanting it to be done with. You find yourself saying to the sky, Just do it. Do your worst. Get it over with.

The people in the chaos cannot learn. They cannot understand what they are doing to the sea and the sky and the plants and the animals. They cannot understand that they are killing them, and that they will end by killing themselves. And there are so many of them, and each one of them is doing part of the killing, whether they know it or not. And when

Human society, they claimed, was a sort of monster, its main by-products being corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain. It was like a giant slug eating its way relentlessly through all the other bioforms on the planet, grinding up life on earth and shitting it out the backside in the form of pieces of manufactured and soon-to-be-obsolete plastic junk.