Quotes About Environment

The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of the renewables.

I used to be a lot more afraid of climate change. Now I spend my time working, planning, trying to move forward.

If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman

The increase in chemicals and the increase in technology, like wi-fi and cell phone use that's going through our bodies all of the time is something that is big on my radar.

Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.

The Bowling Green game was a big-time environment. We wanna see that for all the games.

Each place has its own advantages - heaven for the climate, and hell for the society.

If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

Mark Twain, cynical about so much else, has a particular reverence in the Holy Land for sitting where a god has stood. What flabbergasted him was that his traveling companions would be in such a sanctified environment and winter what they saw according to other writers or their denominational background instead their own experience with the holy.

We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

As regards his health--and the rest of the things--the average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.

Ä°nsan bir bukalemundur; doÄŸas?n?n yasas? gereÄŸi, bulunduÄŸu yerin rengini al?r. Çevresindeki etkiler onun tercihlerini, kaç?nd??? ÅŸeyleri, politikas?n?, beÄŸenilerini, ahlak?n?, dinini yarat?r.

It's the person, Ma, not the place. If you left here, you'd have been the same anywhere else.'(...)'If I ever leave this place' - I swallow - 'I'll make sure I'm better here first.

Outside, the world whistled. The rain was stained.

The buildings appear to be glued together, mostly small houses and apartment blocks that looked nervous. There is murky snow spread out like carpet. There is concrete, empty hat-stand trees, and gray air.

When you looked out my window you could see the whole city crouched under a blanket of car smog.

Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world – and, at the same time that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.

The job of art is not to store moments of experience but to explore environments that are otherwise invisible. Art is not a retrieval system of precious moments of past cultures. Art has a live, ongoing function. McLuhan CD-ROM

A light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence.

Humor as a system of communications and as a probe of our environment—of what's really going on—affords us our most appealing anti-environmental tool. It does not deal in theory, but in immediate experience, and is often the best guide to changing perceptions.

Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti-environmental.

Students of media are persistently attacked as evaders, idly concentrating on means or processes rather than on 'substance'. The dramatic and rapid changes of 'substance' elude these accusers. Survival is not possible if one approaches his environment, the social drama, with a fixed, unchangeable point of view - the witless repetitive response to the unperceived.

One out of every five mammals on the face of the earth is a bat.