Quotes About Environment

Living things are always to be found in places they can master, surrounded by things and situations that make them vulnerable.

We make many assumptions about nature—about the environment—and these have consequences. Mark Twain once said, "It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.

A creature that cannot think must solely embody its Being. It can merely act out its nature, concretely, in the here-and-now. If it cannot manifest in its behavior what the environment demands while doing so, it will simply die. But that is not true of human beings. We can produce abstracted representations of potential modes of Being. We can produce an idea in the theatre of the imagination. We can test it out against our other ideas, the ideas of

The "fit" in "fitness" is therefore the matching of organismal attribute to environmental demand.

The fact that automobiles pollute only becomes a problem of sufficient magnitude to attract public attention when the far worse problems that the internal combustion engine solves vanished from view.

Si algo constituye una plaga, tal y como afirma el naturalista David Attenborough,186 o un cáncer, como señalaba el Club de Roma,187 quien lo erradique será un héroe, o un verdadero salvador planetario en este caso.

El ritmo actual de destrucción de la biodiversidad es comparable e incluso superior al de las perturbaciones ambientales que produjeron las grandes extinciones en masa (incluida la que acabó con los dinosaurios).

En los últimos doce mil años se ha perdido aproximadamente el 50 por 100 de la diversidad global y el desmoronamiento de los ecosistemas tropicales es una realidad predecible para este siglo, en tanto que su recuperación, de acuerdo con los datos expuestos, llevará varios millones de años.

Hubo un pasado en el que cada generación exprimió la Tierra y pensó que la siguiente solucionaría todos los problemas, la escasez, el hambre y la guerra. Y aquella fue una etapa maldita.

La felicidad consiste en crear un ambiente propicio alrededor de uno.

I am me and my circumstance

I am I and my circumstance; and, if I do not save it, I do not save myself.

minerals. This experience again proved to me that what is termed disease is actually a deficiency which results from an imbalance in the natural environment. It also reminded me of the close relationship between the human body and the natural elements of the earth.

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success—or are they holding you back? —Clement Stone

More and more frequently, we will find ourselves in the position of the lower animals—with a mental apparatus that is unequipped to deal thoroughly with the intricacy and richness of the outside environment." The irony is that, "unlike the animals, whose cognitive powers have always been relatively deficient, we have created our own deficiency by constructing a radically more complex world.

couldn't see it at the time, but she was absolutely, perfectly tuned to her entire environment, something one can only do paranormally. The down side, of course, is that in being that way you quickly lose your identity.

As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment.

The permafrost contains more than some 1.5 trillion tons of frozen carbon, which is nearly twice as much carbon as contained in the atmosphere. Although

This feels like WindClan territory," Foxleap grumbled. "I don't like it." Dovewing murmured agreement.

trying to kill a tree.

Trees don't sneak up on you.

Bramble suddenly spotted the red-and-yellow flash of a lovebird

Hills, oak woods for shelter, running streams.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.