Quotes About Environment

It wasn't obvious that repurposing every aspect of the planet for our own benefit wasn't really to our benefit at all.

All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.

When trees are treated as a commodity, cutting them down is good for business. When people are a commodity, enslaving them, exploiting them and underpaying them is good for business. When everything is a commodity, the landscape grows barren, and the earth turns to dust.

The pinnacle of success does not depend solely on one's luck or perseverance. It is also the environment and the people around you that let you reach the summit.

Global warming is a universal behavior of listlessness and lack of discipline.

The present world is a changing environment and people can only adapt or neglect the pressures of time.

There is no modern approach on anything even when you change your environment and not changing an old system.

On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.

Many intellectuals in the social sciences and humanities do not concede that Earth scientists have anything to say that could impinge on their understanding of the world, because the "world" consists only of humans engaging with humans, with nature no more than a passive backdrop to draw on as we please.

every proposal to cut carbon emissions, for example, must be tempered by assurances that economic growth will not be impeded - which makes one wonder whether the world would merit saving if growth had to be slowed to save it.

Too many milieux injure an adaptable sensibility. There was once a chameleon whose owner, to keep it warm, put it on a gaudy Scottish plaid. The chameleon died of fatigue. —JEAN COCTEAU, LE POTOMAK

White people find it extremely hard to live in an environment they don't control.

There is a reason why trash bags aren't made of transparent plastic.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, food packaging makes up twenty percent of our solid waste nationwide.

like the wing of the chaffinch, both the truth and authority have to undergo natural selection. The new meansof persuasion are to be as smoothly and stylistically designed as a 48-track digital tape studio, quiet as a Rolls, appealing as a glamorous face. From hot systems of social control, destructive of the environment, wasteful of sensitive and limited power systems, the progress is towards elegant and entertaining designer-systems of pressure and influence.

Forget the planet, save the garden.

tourism had a way of deleting all the wonders that attracted it in the first place.

The grass will grow in the streets of a hundred cities.

If you want to find a child's weakness, failures, personal problems, or inadequacies, you'll discover them. If you look at a child through the filter of her or his environment or economic status, and make judgments through the filters of your own cultural, gender, and racial biases, you'll find the characteristics you expect.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

We are running this planet like a business in liquidation.

There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation.

The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.

Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real wealth, there is the question of whether this would be a wise thing to do. Marginal costs of additional growth in rich countries, such as global warming, biodiversity loss and roadways choked with cars, now likely exceed marginal benefits of a little extra consumption. The end result is that promoting further economic growth makes us poorer, not richer.