Quotes About Environment

How are you going to build a wall across rivers? Across desert sand and mountains? What about the devastation to the environment? What about the wild animals that live in or around the border, whose migration patterns have already been disrupted and will die of thirst and starvation? The plan is lunacy.

As civilized and advanced as we may have become, we still depend on breathable air, potable water, and fertile soil for our daily existence.

The key is remembering that anything you buy and don't use, anything you throw away, anything you consume and don't enjoy is money down the drain, wasting your life energy and wasting the finite resources of the planet. Any waste of your life energy means more hours lost to the rat race, making a dying. Frugality is the user-friendly and earth-friendly lifestyle.

Fifty-one hybrids and ten MINI coopers. We're the most eco-friendly assault force in history.

Just because your environment or living space changes doesn't mean that your attitude necessarily has to change.

Our air, water, soil, forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, minerals, that is the wealth of the country.

If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by water.

The child should live in an environment of beauty.

Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes.

We can produce imagery to share the beauty of the oceans and what is there to protect. We can also expose the truths about overharvest, climate change, and habitat loss to give oceans a voice.

. . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory.

The great challenge for the garden designer is not to make the garden look natural, but to make the garden so that the people in it will feel natural.

That's what you get for ignoring the beauty of Tupperware.

It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born

Everything you do either adds to the beauty of the world or takes away from it.

The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues - self-restraint.

We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.

There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

It is our task in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.

I like to dedicate myself wholeheartedly to a cause so that I have more impact. My goal is to shed light on the beauty of the ocean and how important it is for our planet.

There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind

Communities should be planned with an eye to the effect on the human spirit of being continually surrounded by a maximum of beauty.

We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.