Quotes About Environment

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

Some people call it global warming some people call it climate change. What is the difference?

I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry.

Recycling has been little more than a comforting distraction from the stuff that really matters.

It is all a matter of individual cost-benefit decisions: change this calculation—lessen the costs of child rearing or increase the benefits—and population level will rise; increase the costs or lower the benefits and population level will slowly decline. And these individual cost-benefit decisions are dependent upon the relation of the sociocultural system to its environment.

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

The oceans are thought to contain of the order of 4×1030 viruses, equivalent in mass to 75 million blue whales.

Cognition is the mental transformation of sensory input into knowledge about the environment and the flexible application of this knowledge.

Animals should be given a chance to express their natural behavior.

what else is cognition but information processing? Cognition is the mental transformation of sensory input into knowledge about the environment and the flexible application of this knowledge.

A species's cognition is generally as good as what it needs for its survival.

Neuroimaging studies indicate that imitating people of one's own gender activates reward centers in the brain, whereas imitating people of the opposite gender does not. This doesn't necessarily mean that the brain is in charge, because it too reacts to the environment. But it does suggest that evolution has equipped our young with a feel-good bias to conform to their gender.

One can take the ape out of the jungle, but not the jungle out of the ape.

Cognitive evolution is marked by many peaks of specialization. The ecology of each species is key. The

So much for Western origin stories, which depict our forebears as ferocious, fearless, and free. Unbound by social commitments and merciless toward their enemies, they seem to have stepped straight out of your typical action movie. Present-day political thought keeps clinging to these macho myths, such as the belief that we can treat the planet any way we want, that humanity will be waging war forever, and that individual freedom takes precedence over community.

The behavior of an individual is therefore determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment.

The more living patterns there are in a place—a room, a building, or a town—the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire, which is the quality without a name.1 —Christopher Alexander

Context, as we will explore it in this chapter, is comprised of the spaces we inhabit, the things in those spaces, and the positions we choose to take in that space. It is a mistake to think of context as "just in the background." The context of a conversation can affect the course of a conversation, the feel of it, the outcome; it can even determine what kind of conversations we have.

In essence, our behavior is a product of our genetic makeup and basic human nature filtered and honed through the environments, experiences, and relationships that form our life journey. Together, these factors—governed by both our nature and the nurturing we receive—help shape the belief system and moral habits that form our character, and in turn, trigger the habitual behaviors that express it.

From where most hospital managers sit, Disney looks like a picnic compared to the fiscal, legal, and regulatory nightmare they face every day in a high-risk environment over which they have very little of the kind of control they would have at Disney.

Green Capitalism", even if products are produced using the utmost environmental care and designed for easy reuse, offers not way out of a system that must expand exponentially and thus, continue to ratchet up its use of natural resources, its chemical pollution, its contaminated sewage sludge, its garbage, and its many other toxic substances. Some of these "fixes" will probably slow down the rate of environmental destruction, but the magnitude of the needed changes dwarfs these approaches.

The reality is that the major environmental problems we face today - of which climate change is only one - cannot be solved by means of technological or market-based solutions while keeping existing social relations intact. Rather, what is needed most is a transformation in social relations: in community, culture, and economy, in how we relate to each other as human beings, and how we relate to the planet. What is needed, in other words, is an ecological revolution.

In general, the well-off have the money to outsource their deforesting as they buy food and other commodities grown by clearing land in other countries. As we have seen, they don't stop deforesting, they just do it somewhere far from home.