Quotes About Environment

Malcolm tosió y fijó la mirada en el infinito: —Seamos claros: el planeta no está en peligro. Nosotros estamos en peligro. No tenemos el poder de destruir el planeta... ni de salvarlo. Pero podríamos tener el poder de salvarnos a nosotros mismos.

The world is alive, Ted. Things are constantly in flux. Species are winning, losing, rising, falling, taking over, being pushed back. Merely setting aside wilderness doesn't freeze it in its present state, any

Look at those beautiful villages, in the heart of nature." Evans was staring out the window but saw only poverty. The

It seems that she can survive, she can prosper, if she has London around her.

I have now and again tried to imagine the perfect environment, the ideal conditions for reading: A worn leather armchair on a rainy night? A hammock in a freshly mown backyard? A verandah overlooking the summer sea? Good choices, every one. But I have no doubt that they are all merely displacements, sentimental attempts to replicate the warmth and snugness of my mother's lap.

High Velocity Human Factors is defined through its mission statement as "a focus on those instances when the human agent has to perform in an environment where the stakes are high, physical danger is imminent, and the future is unpredictable and the information is incomplete.

Like colonisers elsewhere, the East Polynesian ancestors and their immediate descendants had learned, by trial and error and committing some major mistakes, to turn New Zealand's natural and environmental conditions to human advantage (how many people perished, one wonders, in the search for a safe

Would-be green capitalism is nothing but a publicity stunt, a label for the purpose of selling a commodity, or - in the best of cases - a local initiative equivalent to a drop of water on the arid soil of the capitalist desert.

Chico Mendes definiu com as seguintes palavras as bases desta aliança: Nunca mais um companheiro nosso vai derramar o sangue do outro; juntos nós podemos proteger a natureza, que é o lugar onde nossa gente aprendeu a viver, a criar os filhos e a desenvolver suas capacidades, dentro de um pensamento harmonioso com a natureza, com o meio ambiente e com os seres que habitam aqui.

Never was a man's love of risk so beautifully amplified by his environment as Clark's was in Silicon Valley.

After Trump took office, DJ Patil watched with wonder as the data disappeared across the federal government. Both the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Interior removed from their websites the links to climate change data.

The CDC had lots of great people, but it was at heart a massive university. "A peacetime institution in a wartime environment," Carter called it. Its people were good at figuring out precisely what had happened, but by the time they'd done it, the fighting was over.

If we want the world to change, the healing of culture and greater balance in nature, it has to start inside the human soul.

The forest, he thought, would endure for ever. Something so beautiful could not die.

Replacing the divot is "an exercise for the public good." It is also a reminder that "we are all one golfer." There would simply be no game if every golfer turned his back on the damage he did.

He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves.

The important thing is to be able to live in a place or a situation where you must use your sixth sense all the time.

Birds prefer trees with dead branches,' said Caravaggio. 'They have complete vistas from where they perch. They can take off in any direction.

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In order that a select few might live in great opulence, millions of people work hard for an entire lifetime, never free from financial insecurity, and at great cost to the quality of their lives. The complaint is not that the very rich have so much more than everyone else but that their superabundance and endless accumulation comes at the expense of everyone and everything else, including our communities and our environment.

Ecology's implications for capitalism are too momentous for the capitalist to contemplate. They are more wedded to their wealth than to the Earth upon which they live, more concerned with the fate of their fortunes than with the fate of humanity.

In 1979 the nuclear plant at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, experienced a temporary shutdown when the reactor core overheated and almost caused a meltdown. The near disaster was well reported. Left largely unreported was the aftermath: livestock on nearby farms aborted and died prematurely, and households experienced what amounted to an epidemic of cancer, birth defects, and premature deaths.17 The aftereffects of Three Mile Island remain one of America's best kept secrets.

Organic Oreos are not a health food. When Coca-Cola begins selling organic Coke, as it surely will, the company will have struck a blow for the environment perhaps, but not for our health. Most consumers automatically assume that the word organic is synomymous with health, but it makes no difference to your insulin metabolism if the high-fructose corn syrup in your soda is organic.

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.