Quotes About Environment

A hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection.

But I'll never see any of those fish," said Maxie."Or those whales. Or any lions or tigers. I'm never going to set foot in a rain forest now, am I? I won't even be able to watch old DVD's about them without electricity. What does the future hold? It's like going back to the middle ages. Nobody knowing what was going on beyond their front doorstep. All I'll ever know is this. This little bit of London.

Some people are doomed from birth because their environment is so toxic.

In my book a pioneer is a man who turned all the grass upside down, strung bob-wire over the dust that was left, poisoned the water, cut down the trees, killed the Indian who owned the land, and called it progress. If I had my way, the land would be like God made it, and none of you sons of botches would be here at all.

Hemos dejado atrás el concepto feudalista de que el intelecto es una prerrogativa de clase social, que la inteligencia es una cosa de herencia y del entorno;

This may be a shitty work environment, but OSHA doesn't have any guidelines when it comes to ghosts. We'll have to make up our own as we go.

About the water, because it all came back to the water, didn't it? It tied it all together: the sanitarium, the rain, the plumbing. The bathtub and a baby,

that the way you experience life in your home is determined by how you do your housekeeping.

Why do you fear touching the earth? Does not the concrete separate you from it enough?

What a Business Strategy Should Do • Keep our focus on the customer, with an eye to the competition and the rest of the strategic environment • Provide our team with a continuing stream of options • Enable rapid switching between options • Encourage initiative at all levels—in particular, an execute-and-communicate ("shoot and scoot") mindset rather than one of ask-and-wait • Harmonize our efforts to achieve the future we have in mind.

He'd read that rage remained forever in a place that had once nurtured it. "The spirit of the place.

I think half the trees in the world are felled to make up the IIT entrance exam guides. Most of them are crap

The second trait is our numbness to injustice. It comes from our environment. We are exposed to corruption from our childhood. Almost

At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rainforest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity.

God made the country, and man made the town.

If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

Keith Wynn, @ravens_rhapsody

...there is no such thing as infinity in any of the natural resources of the earth.

We are trapped by our conditioning in a world of steel and plastic, asphalt and concrete. We are removed from the earth and getting farther and farther from it daily.

Why are we destroying the land instead of taking care of it? It takes care of us.

Man, with his metal beaver-teeth chops down the world's trees saws, whines, grinds — loudly without a care but human "needs"

Save the bees, the trees, and the Oxford comma.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them and see his fellows with impartial eye afar, for half his days, he is esteemed a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods, he is esteemed industrious and enterprising — making earth bald before its time.