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Quotes About Environment

Climate change isn't something people get to choose to believe or not: it's happening.
~ Matt Gaetz
Wherever there are wild animals in the world, there is always an opportunity for caring, compassion and kindness.
~ Paul Oxton
A person's current personality of love, hatred, jealousy, rage or a murderous intent and so on is formed upon genetic elements, education, the environment and a family a person grows in.
~ Kim Ki-duk
We love our planet Earth. We should - it is our home, and there's no place like home. There can't ever be a better place than Earth.
~ Dimitar Sasselov
While we insists on destroying the world, God is doing incredible things to save it.
~ Nurudeen Ushawu
Light is found on the green.
~ J.R. Rim
There is a real function for government in respect to pollution: to set conditions and, in particular, define property rights to make sure that the costs are borne by the parties responsible.
~ Milton Friedman
Le personalità non hanno un unico immutabile colore, come il bianco o il blu, ma sono come schermi illuminati, e le sfumature che proiettiamo dipendono da ciò che ci circonda
~ Mohsin Hamid
However naturalistic and 'wild' it appears, a garden is always an artificial environment made by people for people, so it makes sense to put the considerations of people – rather than plants – first.
~ Monty Don
An immaculate garden is a hostile place to most wildlife. Beautifully weeded borders, with every fallen leaf and twig gathered and disposed of, hedges kept constantly crisp and grass mown to within a fraction of its life may make a certain sort of gardener glow with pride but will provide little comfort for most of our birds, mammals and insects.
~ Monty Don
That they often do not even reach it is apparent to many parents and to most educators. The reasons for the failure are many, ranging all the way from various kinds of deprivations in the home environment—economic, social, and/or intellectual (including parental illiteracy)—to personal problems of all kinds (including total revolt against "the system").
~ Mortimer J. Adler
A lot of people—young and old— have not done a very good job of taking care of our country so we can enjoy living in it. Almost everywhere today you see the marks of the stupid and the careless who are ruining what we should all take care of for our own pleasure—and our own good.
~ Munro Leaf
I don't know, I don't feel right unless I've got the sea and mountains nearby. People are mostly a product of where they were born and raised. How you think and feel's always linked to the lay of the land, the temperature. The prevailing winds, even.
~ Murakami, Haruki
They ruined their environment, and their civilization collapsed. You'd think their descendants would have learned not to kill the earth that feeds them, but humans are endlessly stupid and greedy.
~ Nancy Farmer
Historians do not have the imaginative freedoms of fiction writers, but we can learn from novelists' efforts to imagine other ways of seeing. More engagement with the environmental humanities, which try to gaze on the agency and interconnectivity of all things, will help.
~ Nancy Langston
Women's impulse to change her own rhythms in the face of an environment constructed to retain her as guardian of the suburban hearth.
~ Nancy Rubin Stuart
believe in personal freedom, global warming, the right of every person to clean water and enough to eat. I believe every woman deserves an orgasm. Every time.
~ Nancy Warren
Ma Gigi era doppiamente diverso: perché portava avanti certe idee in un ambiente che ne ha poche e poco ardite, cioè nell'ambiente dello sport; e perché le portava avanti con originalità, con profonda convinzione.
~ Nando Dalla Chiesa
What if it's all a hoax and we've created a better world for nothing?
~ Naomi Klein
To the extent people prioritize values and goals such as achievement, money, power, status and image, they tend to hold more negative attitudes towards the environment, are less likely to engage in positive environmental behaviors, and are more likely to use natural resources unsustainably
~ Naomi Klein
climate change as a battle between capitalism and the planet
~ Naomi Klein
A 2007 Harris poll found that 71 percent of Americans believed that the continued burning of fossil fuels would alter the climate. By 2009 the figure had dropped to 51 percent. In June 2011 the number was down to 44 percent—well
~ Naomi Klein
A society with extreme inequality, unmasked neo-fascist tendencies, ?and an unraveling climate is sick, and neoliberalism, as one of the major drivers of all of these crises, is grossly inadequate medicine. It offers only a weak no to the forces responsible, and it lacks a yes worth seizing.
~ Naomi Klein
Climate change detonates the ideological scaffolding on which contemporary conservatism rests.
~ Naomi Klein