Quotes About Environment

I write in coffee shops, libraries, parks, museums. I get antsy and then get on my bike and go someplace else, letting the ideas spin around in my head as I dodge taxis.

I really think there are spirits in a place that you have to accommodate.

I still don't know why, exactly, but I do think people can have a spiritual connection to landscape, and I certainly did in Iceland.

Where I come from, people will spit at you if they think you support Enbridge.

Santa Monica Bay is less polluted today than when I first moved to the area in the 1970s, because actions have been taken to avoid putting some of the noxious materials into the sea. I think people are more aware than they once were, the air is cleaner, water generally is, in spite of the fact that there are more people.

We like the size of the company today given the environment and have no plans to split it up and make it smaller.

I come from an artistic family. My dad's an actor, my mother's an actress, my sister's an actress. So I kind of grew up in that kind of environment. Oddly enough, I never really knew about my parents' work. I've seen small clips of it, but we never actually spoke about the business.

The community spoke loudly and clearly and said, 'You need to protect prime agricultural land, you need to protect our water catchments,' and that's exactly what we've done.

I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.

Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men

We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are.

If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.

The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow.

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man.

It almost seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.

A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening.

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realized that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea against men.

We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men

How can land be owned by another man. Warns one can not steal what was given as a gift. Is the sky owned by birds and the rivers owned by fish.

A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.