Quotes About Environment

What sucks the worst is . . . this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is that if we want things right, we have to fix it ourselves. But we can't. We try, but we can't.

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.

Some people would rather change and some people don't. Some people don't want to be forced to stay in a certain atmosphere.

Americans have made it clear we want to build a more sustainable future. I am excited to harness that energy and see what we can create together.

A sudden wind thrashed the treetops in the garden, sweeping down from the east.

I tell him everything as we walk. Maybe so he won't be disappointed being born into a place like this.

In an environment of turbulent change, as de Geus famously wrote: "The ability to learn faster than your competitors is the only sustainable competitive advantage.

In Lovelock's view the earth was a 'super-organism,' a cybernetic feedback system that 'seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.' At the suggestion of his neighbor, author and screenwriter William Goldman, he called the system Gaia after the ancient Greek Earth goddess.

CAFOs house them as tightly as possible where they never see grass or sunlight. If you can envision one thousand chickens in your bathroom, in cages stacked to the ceiling, you're honestly getting the picture. (Actually a six-foot by eight room could house 1,152).

Americans put almost as much fossil fuel into our refrigerators as our cars. We're consuming about 400 gallons of oil per year per citizin -- about 17% of our nations energy use -- for agriculture.

Ideas... [are] like babies - everything about their environment [says] they shouldn't exist. But they do. You can't dwell on problems too early, or they will swamp the virtues and you will decide not to do the project. (Attributed to Mike Jones)

We're reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the burden we've placed on her, if we don't lift the burden ourselves.

W]hen trying to understand the character of the modern mind, it is impossible to separate the effects of genes and the developmental environment.

our kids need to understand that they are not above, outside, or apart from their physical environment—they are completely intertwined with it, and it with them.

Evidence suggests that the tendency to believe in conspiracy theories is driven by motives that can be characterized as epistemic (needing to understand one's environment), existential (needing to feel safe and in control of one's environment), and social (needing to maintain a positive image of oneself and one's in-group) (Douglas et al., 2017).

I'm not even much of a gardener—my contribution to the family garden consists mainly of compost.

the majority of our most serious environmental problems start right here, at home, and if we are to solve these problems, we need an environmental ethic that will tell us as much about using nature as about not using it.

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

What do you do when you see an endangered animal that eats only endangered plants?

If all of your electricity in your lifetime came from nuclear [energy], the waste from that lifetime of electricity would go in a Coke can.

Humans perpetually fight, LeBlanc says, because they always outstrip the carrying capacity of their natural environment and then have to fight over resources.

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

A lot of fun stuff happens when you go out on a bike compared to when you're in a car. You're more in the environment. It's enjoyable. Even when It's raining It's still fun.

I really enjoy not getting in a car and running errands on bikes.