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Quotes About Environment

Always blame conditions, not men
~ Frank Norris
Our planet is currently undergoing a mass extinction of species called the Anthropocene - the Age of Man.
~ Louie Psihoyos
Don't change the man. Change his environment.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community.
~ Richardson Wright
Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
~ Al Alvarez
The must have it now mentality, was man's first step into the gorging of his natural home.
~ Lotte Hass
If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
~ Margaret Mead
Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
Men will become poor because they will not have a love for trees... If you don't love trees, you don't love God.
~ Nikephoros of Chios
The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life.
~ Pope John Paul II
Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.
~ Prince Charles
One thought that occurs to me is that men will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that will suit them better.
~ Isaac Asimov
I do not know of a single TV meteorologist who buys into the man-made global warming hype. I know there must be a few out there, but I can't find them.
~ James Spann
In a word, man in London is not quite so good a creature as he is out of it.
~ John Galt
Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.
~ John Keats
Man is the control experiment of heredity and environment; and since his heredity controls him, he tries to control his environment.
~ Evan Esar
in a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of the best land with dubious efficiency.
~ Frances Moore Lappé
The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The only type of men Julia's mother had warned her about were wealthy industrialist who polluted the environment and took advantage of third-world countries. And Republilicans.
~ Cathie Linz, Good Girls Do
I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.
~ D. H. Lawrence
If the bees disappear, man would have only four years of life left.
~ Albert Einstein
... man is eating the earth up like a candy bar.
~ Anne Sexton
It's not whether animals will survive, it's whether man has the will to save them.
~ Anthony D. Williams