Quotes About Environment

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back

When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.

But certain winds will make men's temper bad.

What about this overcrowded land/How much more abuse from man can she stand?

Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: 'Kill a cat and save a bird?'

The proselytisers for man-made global warming have long exercised a tight stranglehold over the contents of Wikipedia.

Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth .

I believe man-made climate change is one of the most serious threats that this country and this world face.

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

If man ever comes to perfect equilibrium with the environment, we'll all be redundant, perhaps because you won't need art or letters.

The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.

A hard lesson had been learned--that man himself suffers most when his hand despoils the earth and robs it of its legitimate fruits.

Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape.

One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.

If you have one volcano in the world, that one volcano puts out more carbon dioxide than everything man puts out.

Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.

Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.

Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one.

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

The earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

What man calls civilization always results in deserts.

Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.

A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion.