Quotes About Environment

The truth is this: the Earth cannot provide enough food and fresh water for 10 billion people, never mind homes, never mind roads, hospitals and schools.

It is true that the trees are for human use. But these are aesthetic uses as well as commercial uses-uses for the spiritual wealth of all, as well as the material wealth of some.

Truth is a flower in whose neighbourhood others must wither.

I think the deeper truth is that the Kyoto Protocols will not be followed by anyone really and that, in effect, nothing will be done to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse emissions.

I've actually rented Bjork's swan dress. I know that's kind of recycling, but I saw An Inconvenient Truth.

The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as dangerous as presenting them unfiltered.

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides

Of course, no government official will ever tell you that the cities may be making the people in them ill.

The planet is finished with us, at this point -

God does not hold our environment accountable for our behavior

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

attitudes toward America. Vainly, I scoured Dreams from My Father for some expression of reverence, even respect, for the country its author would someday lead. Instead, the book criticizes Americans for their capitalism and consumer culture, for despoiling their environment and maintaining antiquated power structures. Traveling abroad, they exhibited "ignorance and arrogance"—the very shortcomings the president's critics assigned to him.

If we can't love our one and only home, what can we love? If we're unwilling to defend what we love, then what are we?

Although it wasn't raining anymore, the air was still heavy with water, and rain gutters were ringing all over Point Breeze.

In order to destroy the world, it becomes necessary to save it.

The alley was like most any other alley in a city where the infrastructure was crumbling, in a state where the infrastructure was crumbling.

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concrete aqueduct known as the Los Angeles River.

told her to clean up all the empty shells so they could recycle them. He said he'd wait for her in the

Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet—or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.

People aren't studying the natural world any more, they're mining it.

Banning DDT killed more people than Hitler

People worry about losing species diversity in the rain forest. But what about intellectual diversity-our most necessary resourse?

The biggest cause of environmental destruction is poverty. Starving people can't worry about pollution. They worry about food. Half