Quotes About Environment

Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.

The forests have taught man liberty.

The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation

I don't know if human activity is the only cause, but mostly, in great part, it is man who has slapped nature in the face, we have in a sense taken over nature.

We have, in a sense, lorded it over nature, over Sister Earth, over Mother Earth, i think man has gone too far.

To protect creation, to protect every man and every woman, to look upon them with tenderness and love is to open up a horizon of hope.

Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his attempts at controlling body and soul.

Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality which makes no sense today?

Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man.

I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves.

We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.

The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.

A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.

Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.

I love writing and photography and the natural world that inspires them both. I'm working on getting as lost as I can in the beauty before it is completely wiped clean by the madness of man.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is blaming man for global warming. And today, Al Gore agreed with him. That's so typical. Two cyborgs, 'Oh, let's blame the humans.'

The consequences of man-made climate change are real and very significant.

Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life on this planet.

My mom and my dad taught me the greatest gifts we have are our family, our health and the right to clean water and good land.

It's funny because the most sane women I've ever met are my mom and my grandmothers. I think you have to be incredibly sane and self-aware to function in relatively insane environments.

Try to go organic with not too many chemicals and stuff in it. That's what my mom always told me. She was like, "If you wanna wear makeup or do anything, try to keep it organic."

The important things for a mom is that her kids are watched, and are safe and it's a good care environment.

My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late '60s and '70s, and I guess I've inherited that awareness from her.

The difference between a white man and an Indian is this- A white man wants to leave money to his children. An Indian wants to leave forests.