Quotes About Environment

We need to maintain law and order. We need to maintain peace in the world. We need to protect the environment. We need to have some degree of social justice, equality of opportunity. The markets are not designed to take care of those needs. That's a political process. And the market fundamentalists have managed to reduce providing those public goods.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

It has come to my attention, that air pollution is polluting the air!

Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.

If you take anything away from this class, I want it to be the belief that cooperative, mutually beneficial change is still possible between big business and environmental interests.

They tithed by working to preserve the earth He'd created and the animals that called it home. Only one word was in their gospel, and they relayed it by action, not preaching. That word was love.

As one chooses between the country and the human being, the country becomes much more wonderful.

It has always amazed me that these people who are trying to learn and understand the world around us before it is bulldozed out of existence, have to work on piteously low salaries or on minuscule and precarious grants, while they do one of the most important jobs in the world. For it is only by learning how the planet works that we will see what we are doing wrong and have a chance to save it and ourselves as well.

People who are car-sick are never sea-sick,' explained Mother.

I am constantly being surprised by the number of people, in different parts of the world, who seem to be quite oblivious to the animal life around them.

Progress,' said Audrey shortly....'It's important to destroy [nature] so we can have more electricity so that we can then have colour television to show us what the world is really like.

and the olive trunks steamed as the rain was dried off them by the sun

I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus.

We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago. But no purpose is served by post-mortems. With visionary zeal but the greatest realism, we must now address ourselves to the vast problems that confront us.

In the seed model, Leadership is the process of creating an environment in which people become empowered.

Our planet cannot continue to be a life-giving environment unless human beings quickly become much more responsible stewards of the created world.

Fisher's Fundamental Theorem states—in terms appropriate to the present context—that the better adapted a system is to a particular environment, the less adaptable it is to new environments.

Tranquillizers do not change our environment, nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the keen edge of the angers, fears, or anxiety with which we might otherwise react to the problems of living. Once the response has been dulled, the irritating surface noise of living muted or eliminated, the spark and brilliance are also gone.

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

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts.... Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.

In the ant's house, the dew is a flood.