Quotes About Environment

A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made.

Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it.

If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of heroic effort, in which all types of people join forces for the common good

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.

It's absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we've got rockets, we've got saran wrap - fix it!

It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.

Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.

Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.

In soft regions are born soft men.

I like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there.

Short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things.

I-man say don't make jah body a graveyard for de dead animals.

Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment.

Then she felt shock and shame over the fact that she was thinking about coffee while her planet was being set on fire.

Plastic is essentially frozen gasoline.

A more down-to-earth project run by the Soviets had determined that eight square meters of algae—an expanse of pond scum about the size of two ping-pong tables—was needed to keep a single human supplied with oxygen.

I was in Mexico a couple of weeks ago," Avi says. "They have plastic forests there!" "What does that mean?" "Downwind of the city, the trees sort of comb the plastic shopping bags out of the air. They get totally covered with them. The trees die because light and air can't get through to the leaves. But they remain standing, totally encased in fluttering, ragged plastic, all different colors.

The covers are rugged hand-laid paper of rice chaff, bamboo tailings, free-range hemp, and crystalline glacial meltwater made by wizened artisans operating out of a mist-shrouded temple hewn from living volcanic rock on some island known only to aerobically gifted, Spandex-sheathed Left Coast travel bores.

Earth materializes, rotating majestically in front of his face. Hiro reaches out and grabs it. He twists it around so he's looking at Oregon. Tells it to get rid of the clouds, and it does, giving him a crystalline view of the mountains and the seashore. Right

I had to ride my bike to and from their god damn plant way up north in the high-chemical crime district, and reachable only by riding on the shoulder of some major freeways. I could feel the years ticking off my life expectancy as the mile markers struggled by.

GUIs tend to impose a large overhead on every single piece of software, even the smallest, and this overhead completely changes the programming environment. Small utility programs are no longer worth writing. Their functions, instead, tend to get swallowed up into omnibus software packages.