Quotes About Environment

I couldn't come back to gymnastics because the floors were too dusty for my health.

The gutter is Bertie Ahern's natural habitat.

Our seas do have fish in them. We have to change our eating habits, the type of fish we tend to go for. Pollack is fine, that type of thing.

The flavour of something fresh out of the ground is 10 times better than something that's been flown halfway across the world.

The fact is that any carbon legislation is designed to make us not use coal. So if you're a state that has a lot of coal, you're going to get hammered.

I have always been a strong champion for New Hampshire's environment.

The true cost to the world of a burger is far greater than the money you hand over to buy it.

Too many of my fellow Christians voted for selfishness and for degradation of the beautiful world God created. I guess they figured that by the time the planet was a smoky wasteland, they'd be nice and comfy in heaven, so wotthehell.

After all, many cops subscribe to the notion that most homicide victims die by their environment, their lifestyles, and there's no question that prostitutes make themselves easy victims of opportunity.

We cannot cause growth; we can only create a climate in which growth can take place.

Everything was green, so green it went into him.

hope the tornado hit the moose.

The vast country is still there, but it has somehow been altered by intrusions, peopled to death. It is all gone, all changed, all tamed and pacified and cleaned and boiled and sanitized and made healthy and politically correct.

in the bathroom where we Post-Human Services men took our lengthy organic shits, straining to be free of whatever greenery tormented us. On

Goal: Clean air, clean clear-running rivers, the presence of Pelican and Osprey and Gray Whale in our lives; salmon and trout in our streams; unmuddied language and good dreams.

Though the nation is lost, the mountains and rivers remain - Tu Fu

Not long ago the forests were our depth, a sun-dappled underworld, an inexhaustible timeless source. Now they are vanishing.

In the Western Hemisphere we have only the tiniest number of buildings that can be called temples or shrines. The temples of our hemisphere will be some of the planet's remaining wilderness areas.

On all levels, from national to local, the need to move toward steady state economy — equilibrium, dynamic balance, inner growth stressed — must be taught.

Il movimento bioregionale non è solamente un programma rurale: vale anche come progetto di restaurazione della vita nei quartieri delle città e del loro ritorno ad essere più verdi.

Would a bird build its nest if it did not have its instinct for confidence in the world?

This is what mankind has always wanted... that the environment should respond to human thought. That is the core of magic and the oldest dream of mankind, and, here on me, it is fact.

People get old, get sick and die. Or they die suddenly. Or their deaths drag on forever. My friend Tory is dying a slow, excruciatingly painful death of bone cancer. Eight friends have died of breast cancer. Polar bears are dying. Honeybees are vanishing. The oceans are drying up. There is a part of me that wants my money back. That wants to say, 'I didn't sign up for this. I don't like the way this whole thing is set up and I won't participate in it.

Under natural selection, species adapt to their environments. When the environment refers to a species' physical habitat, this seems simple enough. If a species lives in the Arctic, it had better evolve some warm fur. Under sexual selection, species adapt too, but they adapt to themselves. Females adapt to males, and males adapt to females. Sexual preferences adapt to the sexual ornaments avaliable, and sexual ornaments adapt to sexual preferences.