Quotes About Environment

and there's even a heavy metal album called The Anthropocene Extinction.

Children aren't only less inhibited than adults; they are also less powerful, and smaller too. They may or may not be more open-minded and liberated than grown-ups, but they are forced to live in a world that wasn't designed for them, and one that is not primarily concerned with their desires and their welfare. And so children are constantly compromising, constantly adjusting to an environment that is clearly not theirs, not yet. That's wisdom, not innocence.

Bullets are incompatible with pressurised environments and complex machinery.

Under a sky the color of judgment

have they started work yet, go on, one teeny tiny peek. Rain and rust and ruin. Carpetgrass dead slime. That made her very sad.

Nothing tells you that you are not on Earth anymore than exhaling at one price and inhaling at another.

Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.

You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are.

The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.

I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow.

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured

El color del agua parece ser del color del vaso dentro del cual ha sido vertido'.

Lo que va dentro de una mina de sal se convierte en sal.

El pájaro que no tiene conocimiento del agua pura tiene su pico dentro de agua salada todo el año.

Let us give future generations the gift of Earth citizenship by first giving it to ourselves.

The Earth's health is the only standard that is all-encompassing enough to overcome the ethnic, cultural, religious, and national tensions that are rending the world asunder. Only the Earth can become the central axis around which which world peace can be spun, for no religion is more compelling, no single nation larger, and no peoples older than the Earth itself. For that to happen, the collective human consciousness must expand enough so that our highest identification is as Earth-Humans.

We need to change our way of seeing the world and relating to it, not because our current way is intrinsically bad or "evil," but because we have become too powerful to continue to live as we have been living. Whether we like it or not, collectively we have become the most powerful factor in determining not only the future of human society, but also the direction of the entire planet with all its life-forms.

Earth Citizens are people who care for the earth as they care for their own bodies.

Earth Citizens have minds and hearts that know the Earth is the foundation of everything they do.

If we see our relationship to this planet in a wide perspective, one thing is clear: we belong to this planet, not the other way around.

We did not - and could not - purchase Earth with money. We have just been granted temporary stewardship.

People's hearts color the heart of the earth and the earth colors the hearts of people.

It will be impossible for us to maintain the health of the organism called the earth unless we feel and care for other organisms as we do for ourselves—and unless we take action.

Every time you see your belly button, remember that your life is connected with the life of the planet,