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Quotes About Environment

I love scuba diving. I'm an avid diver. And, there's this beautiful world that's more incredible than any CGI film we could ever make, that we're destroying, for what? It's heartbreaking to me.
~ Blake Lively
Absurdly, dead fish by the hundreds were washing ashore, their peaceful world disrupted by man's squabble.
~ Max Allan Collins
Ich hatte zwar einen Laptop, doch er brauchte ewig zum Hochfahren – über eine Minute. Demnach war ich gezwungen, mir ohne Informationen über die Umweltbedingungen Kleider auszusuchen. Der helle Wahnsinn.
~ Max Barry
According to Darwin's Origin of Species, it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is best able to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself.
~ Max Brooks
Those poor bastards didn't want a rural life. They expected an urban life in a rural setting. They tried to adapt their environment instead of adapting to it.
~ Max Brooks
Those poor things. They sounded so scared and angry. And why wouldn't they? What else should they feel when some horrible person released them into an environment they weren't born for?
~ Max Brooks
These trees are happy. Yes, I said it. Why wouldn't they be, in this rich, soft, rain-washed soil.
~ Max Brooks
Seriously, like Steve Jobs playing the orchestra,*8 my orchestra is this land. When you're here, surrounded by it, connecting to it on a visceral level, you realize that that connection is the only way to save our planet. That's been the problem all along, destroying the natural world because we've created so much distance from it.
~ Max Brooks
According to Darwin's Origin of Species, it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is best able to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself. —LEON C. MEGGINSON, professor of management and marketing at Louisiana State University, 1963
~ Max Brooks
We've gotta take care of our environment so it can take care of us.
~ Max Brooks
I like seals.
~ Meg Cabot
I once saw her throw a Juicy Fruit wrapper on the ground in Central Park. She doesn't even feel guilty about littering.
~ Meg Cabot
It took her longer to find out that Oscar Sierra was absorbing every scrap of information from his environment, then running it through some mental algorithm that helped him figure out how to survive in hostile, unloving territory.
~ Meg Gardiner
Judy dumped all the markers, crayons, colored pencils, and pastels she had on the floor. Stink grabbed the first blue marker he saw and started to draw. "What are you drawing?" "Bats," said Stink. "Blue bats." "You're bats," said Judy. "People don't like bats." "But bats eat millions of insects," said Stink. "People should like bats.
~ Megan McDonald
where there is no peace, there are no trees.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
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~ Beatrix Potter
Whether we learn how to love ourselves and others will depend on the presence of a loving environment. Self-love cannot flourish in isolation.
~ bell hooks
When we love the earth, we are able to love ourselves more fully.
~ bell hooks
When the environment you live in and know most intimately does not place value on loving, a spiritual life provides a place of solace and renewal.
~ bell hooks
Nature was th eplace where one could escape the world of man made constuctions of race and identity.
~ bell hooks
if we think of the natural landscapes that surround us as simply, blank slates, existing for humans to act upon them according to our will then we cannot exist in life sustaining harmony with the earth.
~ bell hooks
The earth, like all of nature, could be life giving but it could also threaten and take life, hence the need for respect for the power of one's natural habitat.
~ bell hooks
And when we work with love we create a loving working environment.
~ bell hooks
Estrangement from our natural environment is the cultural contest wherein violence against the earth is accepted and normalized. If we do not see earth as a guide to divine spirit, then we cannot see that the human spirit is violated, diminshed when humans violate and destroy the natural environment.
~ bell hooks