Quotes About Environment

How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man.

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

Britney Spears' album Blackout is one of the hottest-selling CDs in the country. We're in a bad place, people: The world is melting, we're at war, and Two and a Half Men is a huge hit.

From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.

The white man in the tropics degenerates every day.

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll evolve to become so skilled at fishing he destroys the ocean and kills every last fish.

But of all the animals, man holds the fate of the world in his hands.

I believe in the rights of creatures other than man.

While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.

Freud is usually viewed as the person who linked psychoanalysis to some issues in the environment, usually man-made. So I thought it would be fun to throw that in the mix.

But the surface of the Earth was meant for man. He wasn't meant to live in a hole in the ground.

Climate change threatens every man, woman and child.

Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.

Old models of farming with chemicals and credit mostly favored privileged men.

Enough. Man is capable of reform once presented with the facts, and the fact is that bottling water and shipping it is a big waste of fuel, so stop already.

Ozone Man, Ozone. He's crazy, way out, far out, man.

What I think is this: Man is responsible for a PART of global warming. MOST of it is still natural.

Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.

Since the individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining, the average man must take to daydreaming.

The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation's concerns now is not only for man's enjoyment-but for man's survival.

I do [believe climate change is man-made].

There are no wild animals until man makes them so.

To save the human race and our world, we must correct the evolutionary mistakes by changing the genetics of men.

When I speak out on corporations hurting the common man or the environment or other species, I expect a well-financed disinformation campaign to be aimed my way.