Quotes About Environment

I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.

My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I've hung bird feeders... for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.

Her voice is hoarse. She's caught a catarrh from that dreadful draft.

All green things brown.

Of course, it's also true that some people thrive in an atmosphere of disarray. For them, an uncluttered environment doesn't help—or may even stifle—their productivity, their creativity, and their peace of mind.

But not wearing clothes is as wasteful as throwing them away.

A promotion-focused person recycles in order to make the environment cleaner; a prevention-focused person recycles in order to avoid getting a fine. Different arguments resonate with different people, and it's helpful to frame a habit in the way that suits each individual.

Instead of being sources of stress, my home and my office are places of comfort and energy.

An unmade bed is a common broken window, which is why "Make the bed" is one of the most popular happiness-project resolutions, and in fact, as Charles Duhigg points out in his fascinating book The Power of Habit, the habit of bed making is correlated with a sense of greater well-being and higher productivity.

My parents, who are older, think they don't have to be careful, so they eat the most contaminated fish in hopes that the less contaminated fish will be there for younger people.

Every blade of grass counts if we are to survive.

He knew that sick land meant a sick society, that the loss of biodiversity meant the end of life

You see, poor land leads to poor people, conflict, disease. To heal the planet, you have to heal the whole.

One hectare of land burned equals the emissions from more than six thousand cars, but they continue to burn more than a billion hectares in Africa per year.

Plowing turns the world upside down. Overgrazing and undergrazing create deserts. Chemical fertilizers make the farm field an addict.

Self-confidence depends on environment: one does not speak in the same tone in the drawing room than in the kitchen.

It seemed to her that certain parts of the world must produce happiness as they produced peculiar plants which will flourish nowhere else.

Izgledalo joj je da poneka mesta na zemlji sama po sebi stvaraju sre?u, kao što neka biljka uspeva na jednom zemljištu, a na drugom ne.

Self-possession depends on its environment.

Er waren bepaalde streken op aarde, meende zij, waar het geluk tot bloei komt, als een plant die speciaal aan díé bodem is gehecht en nergens anders goed gedijt.

Doors banged somewhere; the elevated trains roared intermittently; a cat yowled miserably upon a back fence. And he breathed the breath of the house—a dank savor rather than a smell—a cold, musty effluvium as from underground vaults mingled with the reeking exhalations of linoleum and mildewed and rotten woodwork.

No writer, in truth, is ever really a free agent. What he does in his trade is determined not only by his immediate environment and the ideational currents of his time, but also and more especially by the play of inherited forces and predispositions within him.

the trees would die before the poison was out of the soil.

when learning stripped earth of her mantle of beauty