Quotes About Environment

I've always been an enormous fan of comic books and anything that captures the real in a surreal environment.

We need an attitude of defiance, not an attitude of cowardice. Out in the street, that's how we are winning against the TransCanada Pipeline. This is how we have delayed the Trans-Pacific Partnership and forced it into an election season, gotten everybody to stand against it. Democracy is not about surrender.

I wonder if those who live here get used to this beauty." "Undoubtedly, Magnificence. It is the nature of man to become oblivious to that which is around him daily

Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where water comes from and garbage goes, consumption or conservation. They map our lives.

William Stegner...coined the term 'the geography of hope,' countering the argument that wilderness preservation served elites with the assertion that wilderness could be a place in which everyone could locate their hopefulness even if few actually entered it.

Now, wilderness can be seen as a useful fiction, a fiction constructed by John Muir and his heirs and deployed to keep places from being destroyed by resource extraction and wholesale development.

There's more that we need to be liberated from: maybe a system that prizes competition and ruthlessness and short-term thinking and rugged individualism, a system that serves environmental destruction and limitless consumption so well—that arrangement you can call capitalism. It embodies the worst of machismo while it destroys what's best on Earth. More men fit into it better, but it doesn't really serve any of us.

Up high, biology vanishes to reveal a world shaped by the starker forces of geology and meteorology, the bare bones of the earth wrapped in sky.

Ultimately the destruction of the Earth is due in part, perhaps in large part, to a failure of the imagination or to its eclipse by systems of accounting that can't count what matters.

The free-range chickens and Priuses are great, but they alone aren't adequate tools for creating a truly different society and ecology.

Walking maintains the publicness and viability of public space.

You are not just a consumer. You are a citizen of this Earth and your responsibility is not private but public, not individual but social.

Poor countries in the developing world paid first, but the rest of us are paying now, as those policies and the suffering they impose come home to roost via right-wing economics that savages unions, education systems, the environment, and programs for the poor, disabled, and elderly in the name of privatization, free markets, and tax cuts.

cause London is drowning and I— I live by the river.

I live in an ocean of smell…

The very air they breathed was almost a juice.

Behind it was that vast suspension bridge which always troubles me because it reminds me that in this mechanized age I am as little able to understand my environment as any primitive woman who thinks that a waterfall is inhabited by a spirit, and indeed less so, for her opinion might from a poetical point of view be correct.

Only upon death does an organism reach equilibrium with its inanimate environment.

At Semco we accept that every individual wants and needs a worthwhile pursuit in life. It's up to us to provide the environment and opportunity for their gratification.

A foraging wild creature, intent above all upon survival, is as strong as the grass.

People who record birdsong generally do it very early--before six o'clock--if they can. Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland becomes too constant and too loud.

Hazel, like nearly all wild animals, was unaccustomed to look up at the sky. What he thought of as the sky was the horizon, usually broken by trees and hedges.

How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.