Quotes About Environment

I get inspiration from a lot of things around me - nature, hills, people, and even insects.

Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

He wondered why a tree grew so close to the same water that would make it fall. Maybe trees were as greedy as people.

Listen to it… The swamp has its own Sound. Its own rhythm.

No, I was just thinking about Chernobyl. That's like a scream from the universe warning us, but we're not paying any attention.

Plastic carrier bags floated around the traffic lights at the end of the Strand like predatory jellyfish.

The 'environment' is not the gift of entrepreneurs, risk takers, or investors. It is the common, inherited property of humanity.

capitalism itself is a system and that as the environment that hosts capitalism changes—in particular, as the better part of global economic growth begins to occur outside the mature economies of the West—the capitalist system will evolve.

Conservation] Barring that, just yell at people randomly to stop killing whales. It could catch on. Really. (Would you like fries with that? Shut up and stop killing whales! Thank you. Drive through, please.)

Don't defoul the air. It ill becomes you. - Oromis

Better to see widely than to see too closely and allow some feature of place or situation to catch you unawares. Do you understand?

The land is a special thing. Care for it, and it'll care for you. Not many things will do that.

Billions of dollars are spent annually convincing us we must create a proper "environment" for our babies, and parents buy into the idea big time. They think that if they're not constantly entertaining their baby, they're somehow failing her, because she's not getting enough "intellectual stimulation.

orhiko choria orhin laket / orhy ku?lar? ancak orhy'de mutlu olur

the environment is now transmitting less and less useful information, and more and more that is entirely useless. 2009

Si se difundiera la idea de que, al contaminar el mundo, no solo se perjudica a las ballenas sino también (perdonen el tecnicismo) a la polla, creo que asistiríamos a repentinas conversiones al ecologismo.

Se por acaso se espalhasse a ideia de que a poluição no mundo compromete não só as baleias mas também (desculpem o tecnicismo) os perus, acho que teríamos súbitas conversões ao ecologismo.

Within a few centuries we are returning to the atmosphere and oceans the concentrated organic carbon stored in sedimentary rocks over hundreds of millions of years.

In short, for decades it will be impossible to adequately feed the planet without using fossil fuels as sources of energy and raw materials.

The Arthur D. Little management consultancy estimates that—based on a vehicle life of 20 years—the manufacture of an EV creates three times as much toxicity as that of a conventional vehicle. This is mostly due to the greater use of heavy metals.

By 1970 the global applications of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers were more than eight times the 1950 level. By the century's end they had risen above 80 million tons a year, and recently they have been close to 120 million tons of nitrogen a year.

Hydrolectricity is the largest modern non-fossil source of primary energy; the combination of relatively low cost, high suitability to cover peak demand, and the multi-purpose nature of most large reservoirs (they serve as sources of irrigation and drinking water, a protection against downstream flooding, recreation sites, and, increasingly, places for aquacultural production) should make it one of the most desirable choices in a world moving away from fossil fuels.

CFCs and DDT carry different, much more sobering but also expected lessons: human interventions in Earth's environment often carry delayed, complex risks, so far removed from the initial concern and so far beyond the readily conceivable complications that only time and the accumulation of events will make us aware of those unexpected but highly consequential impacts.