Quotes About Environment

What is that *smell*?" Eliot shook his head. "I keep telling you, it's fresh air.

Proposition II Each grain of sand has its architecture, but a desert displays the structure of the wind.

We have to save the world before we can live in it

A cowchip is paradise for a fly.

750 years old, and during that time the Great Plains had suffered twenty droughts similar in severity to the one under way in the 1930s.)

blew out 5 million acres of fields, and in the space of a day carried off twice as much dirt as had been excavated by the United States in the decade it took to dig the Panama Canal.

There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.

Green humanism? What's that? Humanism for little green men?

We will live in big habitat spinning in the sun, natural environment for self-reliant conscious primate.

White-hot needles stabbed through his eyes into his head, into his brain: a new environment for the information viruses, where they replicated, forming snarls of complex logic that entangled him, clanking mechanisms that pursued him from one thought to another, down corridors of memory and forgotten rooms of days.

The human world is created out of our minds as much as from the natural environment.

The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.

Liability does apply with respect to the amount of the oil spill.

Anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad or an economist.

Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

Ecology teaches us "that the total economy of the planet cannot be guided by an efficient rationale of exploitation alone," wrote Burke more than 70 years ago, "but that the exploiting part must eventually suffer if it too greatly disturbs the balance of the whole.

When the French were here, they began cutting down the trees. Haiti's dictators finished the job, leaving the topsoil to run into the ocean. All that splendid mahogany furniture in Paris salons and this is the result: a bald brown island with a muddy coast.

With laissez-faire and price atomic, Ecology's Uneconomic, But with another kind of logic Economy's Unecologic.

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

we do not know how to survive without other people to care for us and to teach us. Therefore, humans must discover ways of effectively interacting both with their environment and with each other. They must learn how to construct the knowledge, including rules of living, that will enable them to survive. This knowledge, the manner in which it is presented (in the family, in the neighborhood, in literature, art, school lessons, etc.), and the meaning it has for us is called culture.

Pollution from garbage, sewage, and agricultural fertilizer runoff, combined with overfishing and spills from offshore oil drilling, may kill off edible sea life completely by 2048.

Kenneth Robert Livingstone

To achieve this his team had a sophisticated stress testing environment. When they wanted to improve the architecture they would first improve the stress tests until the system broke. Then they would improve the architecture just enough to run the tests. I suggested this strategy to an architect at another company. He complained of spending all of his time writing specifications and then explaining them to developers.

Indian faith sought the harmony of man with his surroundings; the other sought the dominance of surroundings. In