Quotes About Environment

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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations. Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

world—"You think in secret and it comes to pass, environment is but your looking glass." James Allen wrote those words

There's beauty in every tree and every bush. Just take the time to look at'em.

That was the way we learned how to play the game, and you develop your skills pretty quickly in a pitched battle on that scale. After all, if you wanted to spend any amount of time with the puck on your stick, you had to learn how to stickhandle through ten opponents. That's a great environment for kids to develop skills while at the same time having a ton of fun.

But just as a beautiful fish will occasionally sparkle in the waters of a polluted river that runs through a stretch of factories, so in the flow of old paper the spine of a rare book will occasionally shine forth, and if for a moment I turn away, dazzled, I always turn back in time to rescue it.

It smelled bad there, like blood and rotting meat, a dense, heavy smell very different from the smell of his own town, which smelled of dirty clothes, sweat clinging to the skin, pissed-on earth, which is a thin smell, and smell like Chorda filum." 2666, Bolano

You may feel love and compassion for everyone, but that does not mean you can continue to be in environments or with people who are hostile or toxic. You may need to leave.

It is extremely important to me that the social and environmental issues associated with the production of fashion clothing are addressed.

I don't believe in riches, but you should see where I live.

The Negro is better off in his family, in the first place, because, even when his home is little more than a primitive one-room cabin, he is at least living in the open country in contact with the pure air and freedom of the woods, and not in the crowded village where the air and the soil have for centuries been polluted with the accumulated refuse and offscourings of a crowded and slatternly population.

It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare.

Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but pictures, kill nothing but time.

a gentleman today—however we may characterize him—may find his environment less congenial to his temperament.

Do you know anything about Darwin?" he asked. I thought the question was rhetorical, but he waited for an answer. I said, "Survival of the strongest, all that." "Not the strongest," he said. "That's the modern interpretation, and it's wrong. The key for Darwin was not that the strongest survive—the most adaptable do. See the difference?" I nodded.

The whole place had a feel and aura about as warm as a cold sore. Myron

Fish are an endless source of meditation and astonishment. The varied forms of these strange creatures, their diverse means of existence, the influence upon this of the places in which they must live and breathe and move about….

And for goodness' sake put some of the county back where it belongs, the soil erosion's bad enough as it is. Dill stared at my father's retreating figure. He's trying tryin' to be funny, I said.

Miško paukštis ? mišk? ir ži?ri

I wonder what ants do on rainy days?

The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground

Why do people have to build such depressing places? I'm not saying that every nook and cranny of the world has to be beautiful, but does it have to be this ugly?

People are by and large a product of where they were born and raised. How you think and feel's always linked to the lie of the land, the temperature. The prevailing winds, even.

How you think and feel's always linked to the lie of the land, the temperature. The prevailing winds, even. p.498