Quotes About Environment

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

Nature is not a drag on growth - its protection is an unavoidable prerequisite for sustaining economic development.

It's a very strange thing when you make nature illegal.

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash.

The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.

All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.

Take good care of creation. St. Francis wanted that. People occasionally forgive, but nature never does. If we don't take care of the environment, there's no way of getting around it.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.

We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.

I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union.

We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

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

I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.

With my portable recording system, I didn't feel like I was listening as a distant observer; rather, I had been sucked into a new space - becoming an integral part of the experience itself.

How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature.

Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature - The rustling of leaves in the wind, Raindrops falling, The humming of an insect, The first birdsong at dawn.

I don't see how anybody could have a passion for nature without having an equally developed tolerance for the cold.

Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere.

We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.

People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it.

If it's unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.