Quotes About Environment

Take time everyday to shift from immersion in human-centric thinking to ecoexperience.

Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did.

Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.

The pattern is clear: if we could speed up time, it would seem as if the global economy is crashing against the earth - the Great Collision.

The reason we've made a mess of the planet is that being its stewards required us to imagine not our own futures but those four or five generations removed.

Man may have the power of reason by his side, but it's the animals that are still in touch with nature.

We were raised to believe in books, music, and nature.

Yet not matter how much we recycle, believe in our Priuses, and abide by local laws, we see that our beauty is being destroyed, crushed by greed and cruel stupidity.

with the animals dying around us our lost feelings we are saying thank you with the forests falling faster than the minutes of our lives we are saying thank you with the words going out like cells of a brain with the cities growing over us like the earth we are saying thank you faster and faster with nobody listening we are saying thank you we are saying thank you and waving dark though it is —W. S. MERWIN

Rain in a foreign city is different from rain in a place you know. I can't explain this, while snow is the same everywhere.

Where physical survival was relatively easy, one created rules to make social survival more difficult.

Lasher,' she said, 'for the wind which you send that lashes the grasslands, for the wind that lashes the leaves from the trees.

Men just generated wires and cords and electrical tape everywhere they went, somehow. They might not even be aware of it.

mass production. Instead of making things only when people needed them, like holes in the wall did, Rusty factories had churned out vast quantities of stuff—the whole world in a giant competition to use up resources as quickly as possible.

Be careful with the world , or the next time we meet, it might get ugly.

I'd been thinking for a long time that I should get Prius, to help the environment and to feel morally superior. Twice-divorced people rarely get to feel morally superior.

The economic and marketing forces of modern society have engineered an environment… that maximize[s] consumption at the long-term cost of well-being

The economic and marketing forces of modern society have engineered an environment… that maximize[s] consumption at the long-term cost of well-being," a study in the Journal of Affective Disorders concluded in 2012. "In effect, humans have dragged a body with a long hominid history into an overfed, malnourished, sedentary, sunlight-deficient, sleep-deprived, competitive, inequitable, and socially-isolating environment with dire consequences.

When you throw trash on the ground, you apparently don't see yourself as truly belonging to the world that you're walking around in.

The thermostat, on the other hand, manages to change the environment in sync with the outside world. Every organization needs at least one thermostat. These are leaders who can create change in response to the outside world, and do it consistently over time.

In creating an ideavirus, the advertiser creates an environment in which the idea can replicate and spread. It's the virus that does the work, not the marketer.

Marketing, more than a lake or a forest, is the landscape of our modern lives.

There's a difference between passively accepting every element of your environment (and thus missing opportunities to exploit) and being wise enough to leave the unchangeable alone, or at least work around it.

By the way, the next time you get your cholesterol checked, make a note of the season. Because sunlight converts cholesterol to vitamin D, cholesterol levels can be higher in winter months, when we continue to make and eat cholesterol but there's less sunlight available to convert it.