Quotes About Environment

The biosphere only survives, today, by virtue of what prosthetic assistance we can afford it. The assemblers might keep that going, were the klept to founder. But I don't trust that some last convulsive urge to short-term profit, some terminal short-sightedness, mightn't bring an end to everything.

like a shark cruising a swimming pool thick with caviar.

Seated here, none too comfortably, on a truncated stalagmite, he could at least be glad the place made a decent flat white.

She'd yet to see a book in any Bigendian environment. He was a creature of screens, of bare expanses of desk or table, empty shelves. He owned, as far as she knew, no art. In some way, she suspected, he regarded it as competition, noise to his signal.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Our environment encourages us not to be philosophers but partisans.

And here I find the great distinction between the faith of the Indian and the white man. Indian faith sought the harmony of man with his surroundings, the other sought the dominance of surroundings.

If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.

The air is precious to the red man, for all things share the same breath-the beast, the tree, the man, they all share the same breath. The white man does not seem to notice the air he breathes. Like a man dying for many days, he is numb to the stench.

Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life We are merely a strand in it. What we do with the web, we do to ourselves...

When the green hills are covered with talking wires and the wolves no longer sing, what good will the money you paid for our land be then

Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.

What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect."-- Chief Seattle, Duwamish

On the hill we used a different, vaguer calendar than the one I've since learned. The seasons ours described—summer, dimming, and winter—were suited to a different place: the mountain had two seasons at most.

The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now.

Üstelik bütün gölü kurutmalar? ihtimali vard?. Korunmaya al?nm??, sit alan? ilan edilmi? olsun, olmas?n, tereddütsüz yakacaklard? o bölgeyi. ?nsano?lu ç?kar? u?runa yerküreyi bir limon gibi s?kabilirdi.

Do you blame a vulture for perching over a carcass?

For individuals' behavior to change, you've got to influence not only their environment but their hearts and minds.

Our struggles with e-mail are a bit pathetic, but the larger topic is worth considering: Is it possible to design an environment in which undesired behaviors—whether yours or your colleagues'—are made not only harder but impossible? As it turns out, lots of people actually make their living contemplating how to wipe out the wrong kinds of behaviors.

Many people have discovered that, when it comes to changing their own behavior, environmental tweaks beat self-control every time.

In this chapter, we've seen that what looks like a "character problem" is often correctible when you change the environment. The