Quotes About Environment

UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Leaf-blowers: Loudly making yardwork someone else's problem since the 1960s.

Dull people have immaculate homes.

No matter how breathless the air when he dug his nest by tree or bank, the wind the later blew inevitably found him to leeward, sheltered and snug

Conditions at Flutic are always optimum and at worst meticulous.

She lived in an environment that few people in the world have ever been able to survive. What knowledge did she have that made that possible? How did she survive for so long in a place that would kill most of us within days? Soon after my visit the old woman died, and now we may never know.

up most of the room. There

She was trying to whisper, but she might as well have yelled under an echoing bridge.

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.

For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

On aime ce qui nous a émerveillé, et on protège ce que l'on aime.

We only protect what we love, we only love what we understand, and we only understand what we are taught.

It is possible - indeed, it is likely - that, unless there is a great change in the near future, disaster will follow. And it will be a disaster of which man himself will be not only the perpetrator, but also one of the victims. - p 46

When you are a citizen, the earth feels different.

Any segment of land . . . can be interesting of itself, but its greater significance must always lie in the life it sustains.

My principal flowers will be trees. Because when you plant trees, you're entitled to believe you'll live forever. So

The earth is something you protect every day of the year. A river is something you defend every inch of its course.

He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but his looking glass.

Mind is the Master power that molds and makes, And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills, Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills:— He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: Environment is but his looking-glass.

Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul which have been restored and brought to light in this age, none is more gladdening or fruitful of divine promise and confidence than this—that man is the master of thought, the moulder of character, and the maker and shaper of condition, environment, and destiny.

Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all, heavenly environment; of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.

man, therefore, as the lord and master of thought, is the maker of himself the shaper and author of environment.

Thought and character are one, and as character can only manifest and discover itself through environment and circumstance, the outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state.