Quotes About Environment

Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals that

Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals that propel life.

Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the exemplary life therein.

I updrive a Bronco. How environmentally irresponsible of you.

Greta Thunberg is a purveyor of apocalyptic propaganda that has been fed to her by others and that she is incapable of factually substantiating.

Rain in the dump makes water filthy. Rain in the garden cleanses.

Out of all the neighborhoods in Manhattan, Soho in particular had the charged atmosphere of a movie set, populated with passersby who looked like extras from Central Casting, so perfectly did they fit into this environment. There was the feeling of everything being not quite real, or too perfectly cliched to actually be true, and it began to rain in a fine, misty drizzle from a black patent leather sky.

Wherever citrus production dominates, a rather distinctive social life has long existed. This citrus belt complex of peoples, institutions, and relationships has no parallel in rural life in America. It is neither town nor country, neither rural nor urban. It is a world of its own.

The gutted ruins of the Amazing Kingdom were razed, and the land was replanted with native trees, including buttonwoods, pigeon plums, torchwoods, brittle palms, tamarinds, gumbo-limbos and mangroves. This restoration was accomplished in spite of rigid opposition from the Monroe County Commission, which had hoped to use the property as a public dump.

Sometimes it's hard to feel much hope for the planet.

novels. I can't imagine living anywhere as corrupt, overrun, mismanaged, and freak-infested as Florida. I also can't imagine living anywhere as beautiful or so worth fighting for. Carl Hiaasen Vero Beach June 7, 2013

During the last days of his governorship, Clinton Tyree had lobbied for a somewhat tougher law. His version would have required anyone who killed a manatee to immediately forfeit his boat (no matter how luxurious) and pay a ten-thousand dollar fine or go to jail for forty-five days. The Tyree Amendment would have also required the manatee killer to bury the dead animal himself, at a public ceremony. Not surprisingly, the governor's proposal was quietly rejected.

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In other words, we saved an animal from extinction just so we could start killing it again. How messed up is that?

Carl Hiaasen

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George Graveline had a motto by which he faithfully lived: Always park in the shade.

Dragging baits in the ocean was different than jigging for walleyes in the lake back home.

Economists don't seem to have noticed that the economy sits entirely within the ecology.

Whether on'e special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same place being human comes from: compassion.

If wildlife cannot exist there will be poor quality for human life. A better world for wildlife means a better world for human life.

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Shrinking forests, melting ice, plowed grasslands, raging fires, drying rivers, and dying corals — diminished of all the major habitats, proxy for all who live therein, means that the numbers of free-living animals are the lowest ever, and mostly falling, across the board. It means something acutely awful, I think: that the human species has made itself incompatible with the rest of Life on Earth.

The more humans fill the world, the more we empty it.