Quotes About Environment

Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order.

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

Artists cannot help themselves; they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to preserve the precious habitat in which that beauty can flourish.

As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.

In traditional societies, nature was seen as one's wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.

Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.

My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature.

With nature's help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining.

Paradises an only be made with our own hands, with our own creativity in harmony with the free creativity of nature.

Without the land, the rivers, the oceans, the forests, the sunshine, the minerals and thousands of natural resources we would have no economy whatsoever

In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.

A woodpecker's drilling Echoes To the mountain clouds.

If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry forever.

Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.

Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'

A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.

Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed the very environment it is itself sustained by.

I believe that cuisine is the most important link between nature and culture.

Dark green is my favorite color. It's the color of nature and the color of money and the color of moss!

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.

Wildlife of the world is disappearing, not because of a malicious and deliberate policy of slaughter and extermination, but simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect.