Quotes About Environment

Global Warming is not science; it's great political science.

What we need is NOT a Green New Deal but a Green Smart Deal.

Global economics does not speak to the public need for meaningful work, affordable housing, fulfilling education, adequate medical care, a clean environment, honest and accountable government, social and cultural renewal, or simple justice. All global ambitions are based on a definition of productivity and the good life

Thank haven, literally, for the moon," says the economist Susan George. "If it weren't there, supplying the gravity to slow down the earth's rotation, our days would last only about four hours, with constant gale-force winds. Nature doesn't work on the principle that faster is better". Industrial society, unfortunately, does work on that principle. As a consequence, it weighs heavily upon nature.

At what point does the brown cloud over an industrial city become a problem as opposed to a sky-high banner proclaiming good times? When does the ration of clear-cuts and Christmas tree farms to healthy, intact forest begin to cause aesthetic and moral discomfort, or real environmental damage?

In addition to being delightful words to say, umwelt and umgebung offer a framework for exploring and describing the experience of other creatures.

Gaby shouldn't have called this place Themis. Call it Gaia.

Since the first sighting, this has consumed us. We have dedicated our time and our dreams to protecting and conserving this area. These woods are my church. There is no bird like this in the world.

a sort of botanical glory-hole

And your oil engines are just a deplorable perversion – dirty, noisy, poisonous, and the cars you drive with them are barbarous, dangerous..." Chocky in "Chocky

If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.

history is the negation of nature.

Though culture and home environment play important roles in the overall shaping of a person, we have learned that children have an inborn tendency to be either introverted or extroverted, sensitive or insensitive, adventurous or timid, passive or aggressive. They are even born with a tendency toward being either neat or disorganized; it's not just the result of how well their parents trained them.

The stringent scent of cleaner washes out past us.

The wood smoke gave the whole place the scent of autumn

If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

Animals are becoming more and more diseased, and it will not be long until animal food will be discarded by many besides Seventh-day Adventists.

Social psychologists argue that who we are at any one time depends mostly on the context in which we find ourselves. But who creates the context? The more mindful we are, the more we can create the contexts we are in. When we create the context, we are more likely to be authentic. Mindfulness lets us see things in a new light and believe in the possibility of change.

I blew up a balloon and wrote on it in indelible pen, Happy Xmas everyone, luv you all xx, then threw it over the side into the Southern Ocean.

Each of us possesses five fundamental, enthralling maps to the natural world: sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell. As we unravel the threads that bind us to nature, as denizens of data and artifice, amid crowds and clutter, we become miserly with these loyal and exquisite guides, we numb our sensory intelligence. This failure of attention will make orphans of us all.

I really hope that we'll have a sustainable future on this planet, I really do. So I probably geek out mostly about learning more about how potentially we can hopefully make that happen, hopefully we're not too far lost.

Most crimes are committed by 'criminals'—that is to say, by individuals habituated by environment and repetitious conduct to the pursuit of law-breaking.

Perhaps more people would be inclined to take action if, like the stereotypical terrorist, global warming had a moustache.

A beautiful environment can be the darkest hell if you have to experience it all alone.