Quotes About Environment

I grew up in the Northeast; I've seen hurricanes before and trees down and cars destroyed.

I always said if I could figure out a way to grow Kleenex and toilet paper on trees, we could pull the plug on society.

I talk to children in schools all over the world, and I've found that both boys and girls are fascinated by how hunter-gatherers manage to survive entirely on what's around them in their environment: trees, rocks, animals and plants.

I get this anxiety in cities and places like that. When you grow up in kind of a small town and when you grow up around a lot of green and trees and nature and that sort of thing, sometimes I think it's a little mentally disconcerting to be around this concrete.

I grew up in New York City, so I have, like, an inherent fear of trees, I think, in general.

We're planting trees to break up the concrete jungle. We're building public transportation and affordable housing.

For captive gorillas, trees should be available to climb and material such as straw, branches, or bamboo supplied for nest building.

I just do my day job and go home and plant trees.

I don't believe in carbon offsetting. Planting 60 trees so you don't have to say your Hail Marys that night? It's a crock.

You either keep the forest standing, which takes jobs away from indigenous people who need to feed themselves, or you cut down the trees, which affects the climate. In the long term, you have to protect the forest.

I planted trees for five years in the middle of nowhere, but a lot of Canadian college students do that for money. You go out in the forest for a summer and plant trees. You get, like, eight cents a tree, but it adds up.

I love being able to record in a room that's surrounded by trees.

At a time when there is rise in global temperature and pollution intensifying, it is important to face these issues in through clean and green air by planting indegenious trees. This is a responsibility of each one of us.

Students should respect trees just as they respect their mothers.

I have about 1,700 species of trees, almost everything that can grow in our climate.

The Shiv Sena says that when it comes to power, they will declare Aarey as a forest. How will they declare it a forest when there won't be any trees left?

Being a mountain boy, I have always understood the importance of trees, animals and nature for a human being.

I like hills and trees.

I know about trees. I know about how they eat all the carbon.

The only thing I do for posterity is plant trees.

I had read an article about a couple who had developed a private forest in Coorg, and were working towards preserving it. I wanted to do something similar and wanted to give something back to the nature from which we have stolen so much. So my cousins and I bought 24 acres of land and we planted trees in that.

I am not against development, but society will go nowhere if you don't take care of trees.

I'm a farm guy, so I like to work outside, dealing with the trees and that kind of stuff.

I will not tolerate killing of trees in the dead of the night.