Quotes About Environment

Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves. This we know: the earth does not belong to man—man belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood that unites one family. All things are connected.125

It was not a jolly place at all for a sun-loving soul

What sucks the worst is . . . this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is that if we want things right, we have to fix it ourselves. But we can't. We try, but we can't.

here in the summer desert, winter found my blood

And where in the automobile is the offal that so offends with the horse? There is none, only a puff of smoke that vanishes in the air. An automobile is as harmless as a cigarette. Mark my words, Tomás: This century will be remembered as the century of the puff of smoke!

Imagine the clouds dripping Dig a hole in your garden to put them in

Every drop in the ocean counts.

I found that the Russians had destroyed much of their country trying to keep up with the United States in their arms race.

Rainbow trout live in the fastest currents, cutthroat trout in quiet eddies behind snags, brook trout in the pools at the inner bends of streams.

Anyone who thinks you can have infinite growth on a finite planet is either a madman or an economist. —Kenneth Boulding

Yet despite the plethora of articles, books, films, and warning from scientists and even the military saying that global warming is the single biggest threat to the security of mankind—governments, businesses, and you and I continue to refuse to take meaningful steps to reverse the problem.

Buy less; buy better. Make fewer styles; design better.

Confessions of an Eco-Warrior

You climb the mountains or visit the wilderness but leave no trace of having been there.

Yes, wilderness for its own sake, without any need to justify it for human benefit.

The planet is finished with us, at this point -

when all the time it was that grand tree, taking up half the garden with its roots and not allowing anything else to grow.

Finally, it was time to go. At the doorway he said, as if it had just occurred to him: I don't understand how you can live here, and be an artist, among all this social noise and all of these people.

If you are truly telling a South African story then it will be political — because you are dealing with people who lead political lives in an environment which is highly politically charged.

That which she chooses to reveal is the life of her imagination, as it sought to mold and interpret her environment.

She often spoke to falling seeds and said, Ah hope you fall on soft ground, because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed.

We proaged on thru the woods that was full of magnolia, pine, cedar, oak, cypress, hickory, and many kinds of trees whose names I do not know. It is hard to know all the trees in Florida.

The rose of the world was breathing out smell.

I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.