Quotes About Environment

The handful of swamps left in America were probably some of the few remaining places on the continent where a man could live wholly sustained by the land, whether it was for food, shelter, medicine, or some of the cleanest drinking water on earth. Jeffrey wondered how long it would be before they were all completely destroyed.

People just dump their trash here and don't even care about who has to pick it up. Like they think the trash fairy's gonna do it or something.

The disappearance of this non-capitalist (pre-capitalist) environment thus marks the absolute limit of capitalist development.

Circumstances make men just as much as men make circumstances.

I've heard goldfish grow to the size of their surroundings; so does furniture.

The fuel in the earth will be exhausted in a thousand or more years, and its mineral wealth, but man will find substitutes for these in the winds, the waves, the sun's heat, and so forth.

The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.

A marine protozoan is an aqueous salty system in an aqueous salty medium, but a man is an aqueous salty system in a medium in which there is but little water and most of that poor in salts.

The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.

... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.

If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.

Though how nature works is way beyond man's ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons that can help us understand the realities that affect us.

But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.

Man is a child of his environment

It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.

A garden is a symbol of man's arrogance, perverting nature to human ends.

Man is now in charge of the thermostat for the globe.

We agree that man was not created to survive in space.

Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.'

The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.

I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.

The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.

When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble

A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?