Quotes About Environment

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

I've visited Lincoln Park Zoo more times than I can count because I believe the more the public learns about our animals, plants and environment, the better equipped we are to play a leading role in protecting our planet.

Yosemite Valley is like a tourist zoo. It's shameful.

As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment.

Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that are protected from the external world. Once you create that protection, you live long enough to see ageing.

You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.

She's born and raised with wildlife, living with a zoo. What would be strange for Bindi is if she were in an apartment in suburbia with a goldfish.

It does seem like, in the world today, we've moved further and further away from wildlife. There's that sense of whatever you're scared of, you just want it to go away. Here in Australia Zoo, part of our ongoing plan is that re-connection.

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.

It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.

I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick.

Architecture is a continuing dialogue between generations which creates an environment across time.

The materials of city planning are sky, space, trees, steel and cement in that order and in that hierarchy.

Architecture is space structured to serve man and to move him.

Don't buy the house; buy the neighborhood.

Canada's climate is nine months winter and three months late in the fall.

One of the best-kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.

Had there been a computer a hundred years ago, it would probably have predicted that by now there would be so many horse-drawn vehicles it would be impossible to clear up all the manure.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we have been ignorant of their value.

(Conviction) is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment, or by hating them, as convinced men have hated, say, Darwin and Freud, as agents of some devil.