Quotes About Environment

In the lowcountry, the smell of the marshlands is offensive to visitors, but is the fragrant essence of the planet to the native born.

Yamacraw is beautiful because man has not yet had time to destroy this beauty.

Alignment is not only the source of team power, but it is also a prerequisite for team empowerment. In today's business environment teams and empowerment go hand in hand.

he felt the snow, downward groping of tree roots.

Empty landfills are the pits

Suppose you had inherited the same body and temperament and mind that Al Capone had. Suppose you had had his environment and experiences. You would then be precisely what he was—and where he was. For it is those things— and only those things—that made him what he was. The only reason, for example, that you are not a rattlesnake is that your mother and father weren't rattlesnakes.

In our spiritual disintegration we may not be able to rule the earth, but we now have the power several times over to ruin it utterly.

An act of faith in the biblical tradition is always undertaken in an environment of knowledge and is inseparable from it.

Ozone depletion, lack of water, and pollution are not the disease—they are the symptoms. The disease is overpopulation. And unless we face world population head-on, we are doing nothing more than sticking a Band-Aid on a fast-growing cancerous tumor.

Science itself caused half the problems it was trying to solve. Progress was Mother Earth's ultimate malignancy.

Over the last fifty years," the tall man declared, "our sins against Mother Nature have grown exponentially." He paused. "I fear for the soul of humankind.

The promises of science have not been kept. Promises of efficiency and simplicity have bred nothing but pollution and chaos.

How is it that you—a highly educated woman of science—don't see? Ozone depletion, lack of water, and pollution are not the disease—they are the symptoms. The disease is overpopulation. And unless we face world population head-on, we are doing nothing more than sticking a Band-Aid on a fast-growing cancerous tumor.

According to the study, the vast majority of university students, after clicking on a depressing news article about arctic ice melt or species extinction, would quickly exit that page in favor of something trivial that purged their minds of fear; favorite choices included sports highlights, funny cat videos, and celebrity gossip.

Ozone depletion, lack of water, and pollution are not the disease—they are the symptoms. The disease is overpopulation.

Mother Earth had become a man's world...the male ego had spent two millennia running unchecked by its female counterpart.

There's a lot of bad influences in Cleveland, I'm starting to think. It's a shithole, you know? I think if I'd been born in a nicer place I wouldn't be such a fuckup.

To the fish, the sea is air.

Context is to data what water is to a dolphin

But it sold three billion Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â "Look," said Tyrena. "In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.

Look," said Tyrena. "In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.

Such insights put to rest the century-old debate on nature versus nurture: do our genes or our experiences determine who we become? That debate turns out to be pointless, based on the fallacy that our genes and our environment are independent of each other; it's like arguing over which contributes more to the area of a rectangle, the length or the width.

The Responsive Classroom approach creates an ideal environment for learning--every teacher should know about it.

el ambiente representa casi un tercio de los resultados. Por tanto, es un impacto demasiado importante como para ignorarlo.