Quotes About Environment

If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it.

The only way you're going to save things in life is through love, and that's what we're trying to do .... make people fall in love with Florida.

What's important is that children have an opportunity to bond with the natural world, to learn to love it and feel comfortable in it, before being asked to heal its wounds.

earlier spirituality was participatory with nature, not imposing cultural values or traits upon it.

You inherit your environment just as much as your genes.

Genes do not make an individual homosexual. They play their part, but so does the rest of the universe.

By now you should know not to eat the GMO -Johnny The Walker

For people who lived so deep in nature, the inhabitants of Baileyville seemed oblivious to the idea of respecting it.

rubber-soled shoes squeaking on the shiny Marmoleum.

Places are at once the medium and the message of cultural life. They are where cultures, communities, and people root themselves and give themselves definition.

Sense of place refers to the emotional, experiential, and affective traces that tie humans into particular environments.

You must spend more time on building your culture than on everything else. Culture is what produces wins over time.

One negative person can create a miserable office environment for everyone else.

The nettles and cow parsley came up in swathes, the bindweed trumpeting through the hedges

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.

According to some commercials, driving an SUV means you support terrorists. The answer is the hybrid gas-electric car, which only supports terrorists when going uphill.

Culture is not a territory to be won; it is instead a resource we are called to steward."4

If we learn to read the birds-and their behaviors and vocalizations-through them, we can read the world at large... if we replace collision with connection, learn to read these details, feel at home, relax, and are respectful--ultimately the birds will yield to us the first rite of passage: a close encounter with an animal otherwise wary of our presence.

it is never just the robins communicating with the other robins, the song sparrows with the other song sparrows, the juncos with the other juncos. In the yard and in the trees, it's everyone communicating with (because they are eavesdropping on) everyone else—spring, summer, fall, and winter: ripples within ripples, a vast web with many seams and confusions; concentric rings bouncing off concentric rings; subtle sounds, subtle scents, subtle movements.

Bird language is about acquiring some "jungle etiquette," and the sit spot is where this starts to happen...Instead of flushing out the wrens and chickadees and robins and sparrows with a major bird plow, Jack learned to sit quietly and watch, listen, learn and connect.

The price of art is the destruction of a living tree.

When avoidance becomes pervasive, it is known as phobia. Phobias develop in different ways. A phobic reaction is one in which a person feels his environment has let him down. As essential component is a perceived loss of control.

changing an institution's environment to increase the sense of control among its workers, students, patients, or other users was one of the most effective possible ways to increase their sense of engagement, energy, and happiness.

Yes, genes explain far more about us than anyone had realized, but the genes themselves often turn out to be sensitive to environmental conditions. And yes, each person has a characteristic level of happiness, but it now looks as though it's not so much a set point as a potential range or probability distribution.