Quotes About Environment

Legs were suddenly all about them.

This book was written using 100% recycled words.

You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more, said Yo-less. It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.

It was nice to think that mankind made a distinction between blowing their planet to bits by accident and doing it by design.

About sweeping).... What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends.

I imagine that fish have no word for water.

Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.

The small alien walked past the car. "CO2 level up 0.5 percent," it rasped, giving him a meaningful look. "You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?

Caring for small things had to start with caring for big things, and maybe the world wasn't big enough.

Plutonium may give you grief for thousands of years, but Arsenic is for ever.

You grow up readin' about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and jus' when you think the world's all full of amazin' things, they tell you it's really all dead whales and chopped-down forests and nucular waste hang-in' about for millions of years. 'Snot worth growin' up for, if you ask my opinion.

And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier for them to walk on the surface.

But there were times when you needed trees, and the shame of it, Jaime thought, was that his children were growing up thinking of trees as firewood and his grandchildren would think of trees as history. But

There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.

People talk about medium. What is your medium? My medium as a writer has been dirt, clay, sand--what I could touch, hold, stand on, and stand for--Earth. My medium has been Earth. Earth in correspondence with my mind.

The danger is in what we codify, commodify, and exploit.

Our public lands - whether a national park or monument, wildlife refuge, forest or prairie - make each one of us land-rich. It is our inheritance as citizens of a country called America.

The scales of equilibrium can be found in wilderness/

Wilderness is the source of what we can imagine and what we cannot- the taproot of consciousness. It will survive us.

Wilderness offers us a template to an enlightened citizenship. Instead of only caring for ourselves, we are invited to care for species other than our own.

How we treat our land, how we build upon it, how we act toward our air and water, in the long run, will tell what kind of people we really are. -Laurance S. Rockefeller

This is a landscape that should not be sold.

I was not born here by my consciousness towards a land ethic was