Quotes About Environment

We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.

To some extent, if you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.

Keep your own house and its surroundings pure and clean. This hygiene will keep you healthy and benefit your worldly life.

But what do you think happens in a year when we aren't having a massive drought?" We

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

Für viele Waren gibt es jetzt Plastikverpackungen; das Menschenfleisch aber wird immer noch in Zeitungspapier verpackt verkauft.

It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.

Szygon understood that he made his unusual journeys under the influence of cosmic and elemental forces, and that train travel was a childish compromise caused by the circumstances of his earthly environment. He realized only too well that if it weren't for the sad fact that he was chained to the Earth and its laws, his travels, casting off the usual pattern and method, would take on an exceedingly more active and beautiful form.

Our decisions are to a much greater extent dependent on our desire to conform to the standards of our class and environment than we are inclined to admit. A considerable proportion of our reasoning is merely an automatic function, so to speak, of influences and impressions which have become part of us...

happiness would prevail where trees were planted.

Unsere Entschlüsse sind in viel höherem Maß von der Anpassung an Stand und Umgebung abhängig, als wir geneigt sind, uns einzugestehen.

The world that our children will inherit is going to look substantially different, very quickly, than the world we have today. It's alarming.

We have to stop thinking about ourselves so much and start thinking about the environment. We have to change.

I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer.

Refineries donate hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to our local nonprofits. Why can't they extend that compassion toward cleaning up their sites or conjuring greener alternatives to help out their neighbours? And why don't more of our citizens demand so?

In the U.S. there are 45,000 shopping malls employing 10.7 million people. The average American family of four metabolizes four million pounds of material every year to support their lifestyle. That's 11,000 lbs. a day, 7.5 lbs. a minute.

Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.

Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.

I wrote these songs for a dying planet, I'm sorry, but I'm telling the truth.

Nature's book always contains the truth; we must only learn to read it.

The truth is that we will never save wildlife by killing it.

A cow's heaven is a flower's idea of hell.