Quotes About Environment

Once, however, mankind learned to create his own environment, he created a pleasant and stable one, so he just naturally stopped evolving.

There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man's mastery over the environment.

If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown.

temperatura constante de mais ou menos 21 graus

Tendríamos el infinito en nuestras manos. Cada mundo tendría su propio Tiempo, sus valores, la oportunidad de buscar la Felicidad a su manera y en su ambiente. Hay muchas clases de Felicidad, de Bien, una infinita variedad de propósitos. ¡Ese es el Estado Básico de la Humanidad!

I know this much: species evolve only to meet the pressures of new environments. In a stable environment, a species may remain unchanged for millions of Centuries. Primitive man evolved rapidly because his environment was a harsh and changing one. Once, however, mankind learned to create his own environment, he created a pleasant and stable one, so he just naturally stopped evolving.

I have the idea that we grandmothers are meant to play the part of protective witches; we must watch over younger women, children, community and also, why not? this mistreated planet, the victim of such unrelenting desecration.

un estropicio de obreros haciendo hoyos en el pavimento, quitando árboles para pones postes, quitando postes para poner edificios, quitando edificios para plantar árboles.

La idea de reproducirse y contribuir al exceso de población del planeta no le preocupaba.

Los hombres más peligros que he visto por estos lados no son indios, sino traficantes de armas drogas y diamantes, caucheros, buscadores de oro, soldados, y madereros, que infectan y explotan esta región —rebatió el sacerdote y agregó que los indios eran primitivos en lo material, pero muy avanzados en el plano mental, que estaban conectados a la naturaleza, como un hijo a su madre.

Pete Bethune is a hero in New Zealand. He's a hero worldwide to people who want to see the end of whaling.

New Zealand needs to balance its environmental responsibilities with its economic opportunities, because the risk is that if you don't do that - and you want to lead the world - then you might end up getting unintended consequences.

One of the great tragedies is that there is so much less open land available in Japan today. Many Japanese come to New Zealand because of its beauty.

New Zealand has incredible global recognition for grass-fed livestock.

If you're making films in New Zealand, you can't avoid the landscape. It's certainly more handsome than I am.

From Nike, we buy victory. From Under Armour, we buy protection. From Lululemon, we buy zen. From Patagonia, we buy conservation. From BMW, we buy performance.

If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.

A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.

Either we leave our descendants an endowment of zero poverty, zero fossil-fuel use, and zero biodiversity loss, or we leave them facing a tax bill from Earth that could wipe them out.

Carbon zero simply means that the emissions you are releasing either are zero or balance out to zero.

There are systems called zero discharge emission systems that would prevent any pollution from making it into the water or the air.

The environmental benefits of hydrogen are also outstanding. When used as an energy source, hydrogen produces no emissions besides water. Zero polluting emissions, an amazing advance over the current sources of energy that we use.

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.

A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.