Quotes About Environment

the hospital seemed perfectly designed to immobilize not only his body but his spirit. "The will to live is not a theoretical abstraction, but a physiological reality with therapeutic characteristics," he wrote in Anatomy of an Illness. But the hospital environment tended to stifle that will to live.

It is just good practice to do a situational scan and have situational awareness when you are out in the world.

Life experiences, mental illness, drugs, greed, environment, and poor role-modeling can all forge damaged people and can generate a darkness, an exploitiveness, in the way they approach life. Whatever their genesis, there are people in your life (and mine) who will hurt you if you let them.

Oublier que la terre est la seule garantie de notre vie et de notre survie condamne tous nos efforts et toutes nos prouesses technologiques à n'avoir aucun lendemain.

C'est la nature avant tout qui doit nous inspirer car elle est la seule garante véritable de notre pérennité. Sans elle, aucun projet n'est assuré d'un lendemain.

Contrairement à l'agrochimie, l'agroécologie repose sur un constat qui détermine toute la problématique : le sol est un organisme vivant à part entière et non un substrat neutre destiné à recevoir des engrais de synthèse.

What earth will we leave to our children, and what children will we leave to our earth.

Quelle planète laisserons-nous à nos enfants, et quels enfants laisserons-nous à la planète. What earth will we leave to our children, and what children will we leave to earth.

Wealth and power at the expense of nature were an inevitably lethal cancer. But there seemed to be no gentle way to convince cancer to practice moderation.

the strongest seeds most need the accompaniment of good air and soil, so the best of human characters turn out the worst when they fall upon an unsuitable soil;

And when you're talking about an atmosphere, oceans are very small. And it blows over and it sails over.

In the space of a few minutes the sky turned black and it began to rain.

You can't go around... licking things that come out of a water treatment plant. That's just... unsanitary.

How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?

As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life - a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously tough and resilient, and capable of striking back in unexpected ways. These extraordinary capacities of life have been ignored by the practitioners of chemical control who have brought to their task no high-minded orientation, no humility before the vast forces with which they tamper.

It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind? Yet this is precisely what we have done. We have done it, moreover, for reasons that collapse the moment we examine them.

The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.

If, having endured much, we have at last asserted out right to know, and if by knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals; we should look about and see what other course is open to us.

Fish, amphibian, and reptile, warm-blooded bird and mammal-each of us carries in our veins a salty stream in which the elements sodium, potassium, and calcium are combined in almost the same proportions as in sea water.

the responsibility of science, and the limits of technological progress.

The earth's vegetation is part of a web of life in which there are intimate and essential relations between plants the the earth, between plants and other plants, between plants and animals. Sometimes we have no choice but to disturb these relationships, but we should do so thoughtfully, with full awareness that what we do may have consequences remote in time and place.