Quotes About Environment

Na catinga ele às vezes cantava de galo, mas na rua encolhia-se.

We tell our children they're trapped like rats on a doomed, bankrupt, gangster-haunted planet with dwindling resources, with nothing to look forward to but rising sea levels and imminent mass extinctions, then raise a disapproving eyebrow when, in response, they dress in black, cut themselves with razors, starve themselves, gorge themselves, or kill one another.

Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world.

A civilization flourishes when people plant trees under which they will never sit.

Only when the last fish is gone, the last river poisoned, the last tree cut down...will mankind realize they cannot eat money.

It wasn't the Exxon Valdez captain's driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill. It was yours.

The environment was full of birds and insects, rodents and small reptiles - decorative in appearance, but also satisfying a more abstract aesthetic: softening the harsh radial symmetry of the lone observer; anchoring the simulation by perceiving it from a multitude of view-points. Ontological guy lines.

If the technology improves sufficiently, the environmental impact of the wealthiest Copy could end up being less than that of the most ascetic living human. Who'll have the high moral ground, then? We'll be the most ecologically sound people on the planet.

There is no environment where man can flee to escape the revelational presence of God (Ps. 139:8).

Internalization cannot happen through a mass transference to an audience but must occur in an interpersonal environment.

Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it is our job.

Let nature be in your yard.

Creating your own urban farm is as simple as planting your flowerbeds with edibles.

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

Nothing ruins an ecosystem more than cementing it over. So what f*#!-ing difference does it make if you toss a butt on the ground?

The retreat and disappearance of glaciers—there are only 160,000 left—means we're burning libraries and damaging the planet, possibly beyond repair. Bit by bit, glacier by glacier, rib by rib, we're living the Fall.

When you use a manual push mower, you're "cutting" down on pollution and the only thing in danger of running out of gas is you!

If you're yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning.

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.

Traffic will not yield to our will, neither will global finances, the environment, political rhetoric, nor people in general. There is no way to solve the problem of stress through blaming environmental factors.

Stop hoping for the weather to change, this is where you chose to live, either accept it or move.

Few coffee drinkers realise how little of the biomass generated at a coffee farm is consumed,or the wastefulness associated with their consumption habits.

The wide and strange land shaped and reshaped human institutions to its own purposes, and one either learned to live with the blazing sun, the scarcity of water, the dust and interminable distances, and the whispering quiet of empty canyons and mesas, or he admitted failure and moved elsewhere.