Quotes About Environment

In evolutionary terms, that means we asked for it.

One species of lizard is born with a long tail and large body or a small tail and small body depending on one thing only—whether their mother smelled a lizard-eating snake while pregnant. When her babies are entering a snake-filled world, they are born with a long tail and big body, making them less likely to be snake food.

If a newly pregnant mother spends the first weeks of her pregnancy eating a typical junk-food-laden diet, the embryo may receive signals that it's going to be born into a harsh environment where critical types of food are scarce. Through a combination of epigenetic effects, various genes are turned on and off and the baby is born small, so it needs less food to survive.

The environment we create can help heal us or fracture us. This is true not just for buildings and landscapes but also for interactions and relationships.

As someone once said about water pollution, we all live downstream. We are all interconnected, and we can no longer afford the luxury of not thinking about the rest of the planet in anything we do.

What is it like to be a Spokane Indian without wild salmon? It is like being a Christian if Jesus had never rolled back the stone and risen from his tomb.

I heard it on the wind. I heard it from the birds. I felt it in the sunlight.

I wasn't shocked and I'm still not shocked. It's total exploitation, with everything up for grabs. Health care, gone. Destroy the environment in search of more profit. State-sponsored violence. Targeted incarceration. You know what's happening, though: The whole country is becoming a reservation.

The Simi is environmentally sound. Eat everything except for hooves

The Simi is very environmentally sound. Eat everything except for hooves. I don't like those, they hurt my teeth. Thanatos don't have hooves, do he? (Simi) No, Simi, he doesn't. (Acheron) Ooo, good eating tonight. I get a Daimon for barbecue. Can I go now, akri? Can I? Can I? Can I, please? (Simi)

It was all primal instinct. A dog doesn't know why it barks or growls. It just knows something about its environment isn't right and it reacts.

Go stand in the corner until you learn to be more positive in your thinking. You need an attitude adjustment, Mr Daeve! Nick My attitude is fine. What I need is an environmental change where I'm not locked in a hovel with an ass Glares at Jaden the Nick---- and a pimple.Caleb Why are you laughing? Nick I'm reveling in the fact he left me off his hate list. Xev

One tree isn't more important than the entire forest, Joe. You taught me that. Remember? Political pruning. (Syd) Yeah, but every forest is always destroyed one tree at a time. You take care of those individual trees because each one that falls brings you closer to deforestation. You only prune what's rotten. You don't cut down a good tree for no reason. (Joe)

There is life outside of human beings on planet Earth.

Life has had to deal with environmental change, especially climate change, since the beginning of its existence on Earth.

With an estimated population of nine billion people by 2050, we cannot continue to consume resources at the same rate and maintain our quality of life.

Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.

The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.

The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.

A society that destroys the environment that supports it, I would not consider to be intelligent life. It's like the cancer that ultimately kills itself by destroying the host it feeds on.

The rhythm of life is give and take. It is necessary to put things back into the system. To not do that is to foul your own nest - to use up all the natural resources greedily.

To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life afford quite as much satisfaction.

I see life everywhere I look. I get the energy off the water.

People are intimately bound up with the diversity of life on Earth.