Quotes About Environment

The harsh wind of the Egyptian desert is even worse than the harsh wind of the Egyptian pharaoh.

Photography teaches me to be observant," said Serge. "Discipline. Becoming one with the environment so I don't miss even the smallest detail." A skunk ape crossed the road behind him.

Nature's what it's all about, but our people have been brainwashed into thinking that life is a cell phone against your head and the TV on a beer commercial with hot chicks.

Pete had always been a compulsive organizer, but the man himself was so sociable and friendly that he could seem absentminded at times. Nick was the diametric opposite; his mind was completely organized, but his physical environment was always in chaos.

One of the biggest obstacles to making a start on climate change is that it has become a cliche before it has even been understood

While we sit in our air-conditioned homes and eat, drink and make merry like cattle in a feedlot without the slightest thought about the consequences of our consumption of water, food and energy, we only hasten the destruction -in the long term- of our kind.

Heck's attempted rewilding serves to reinforce a very important fact: Europeans are now the mind over their land. What they desire, the land will become. And if their desires are toxic and dangerous, then that will manifest itself in nature. Europeans cannot escape responsibility for shaping their environment; as even withdrawal from management will have profound consequences.

If you're concerned about our future, it's not just desirable that we eradicate poverty in the developing world, create more equal societies and never let ourselves fight another war; it's imperative, for the discount factor tells us that failure to do so may cost us the Earth.

There's no question that climate change is real.

There is no reason not to support energy exploration in ANWR.

You don't have to wear fur. They make such great fakes. There's no reason to kill an animal.

It makes no sense to make people drive cars.

Three days in a city now and I'm quite flipped. There's too much noise. I just can't do with it.

L.A.'s a lot of noise and stuff. You always hear cars and stuff.

I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there.

I know it's become a cliche of sorts, but, nonetheless, it is true. This is the only planet we and our children and children's children will call home. We can't afford to lose this home because we didn't protect it.

A lot of my nonfiction is very strong environmental stories - I was the first guy to write about the dolphin killings in Japan.

People who run environmental groups and things like that, who have to listen to all kinds of nonsense and keep their tempers, are very diplomatic and very inclusive.

Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.

In this post-industrial society, when we're moving away from what was the norm, we have to deal with what it has left in its wake in terms of the impact on people and the environment.

In some of the estates, there are generations of people who have been without work, so the environment and the example passed down generations is the normality of being without work.

Normally I don't race other people; I challenge the environment and my own limitations.

Normally, you want the river when the water is low and not when it's flooded. For example, there are parts of the Amazon where the water goes up to 15 meters high. This floods the forest, so a lot of the fish that normally stay close together are suddenly very hard to find.

The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!