Quotes About Environment

The danger of dioxins in our environment, our food chain, and our bodies is difficult to illustrate, since they are not visible to the naked eye. My time in Vietnam allowed me to see the result of large quantities of them and therefore understand better the insidiousness of the smaller quantities that have found their way into our lives and bodies.

Ford is committed to building a sustainable future for the benefit of all Americans, and we believe Ford is on the right path to achieve this vision.

Bloom where you're planted and if you can't do that, plant where you bloom. —Dutch Callahan

Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.

I rose from marsh mud algae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisy birds and frogs.

The writing in this book gives us a vocabulary and a way of seeing. But ultimately, with these words resonating in our consciousness, we must turn to the book of nature itself. It matters how we think about and touch this place during our brief and precious time in the world…it can come to reside in us as surely as we reside in it.

The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.

Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.

Let's go get the slug gun and shoot some cats

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

Food is as important as energy, as security, as the environment. Everything is linked together.

When We Are Very Little, We Learn How to Feel about Ourselves and about Life by the Reactions of the Adults Around Us It is the way we learn what to think about ourselves and about our world. Now, if you lived with people who were very unhappy, frightened, guilty, or angry, then you learned a lot of negative things about yourself and about your world.

Children often respond to the mental atmosphere of the adults around them.

Est-ce que l'on peut empêcher le printemps de venir, lors même que l'on couperait toutes les forêts du monde ? » - Le Temps Tempête de la Révolution Mondiale

Ruth believed in precycling. An evolution on recycling. She made use of things before people threw them out.

Nature is talking to us all the time, it's just hearing that's the problem.

Billy learned that trees had feelings and personalities of their own.

As a child, Billy had held his grandfather's calloused hand, and together they'd walked through the forest, the old man touching the trees and describing their character. From him, young Billy learned that trees had feelings and personalities of their own.

Cardinal Monkeyflower

Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit.

It's the people who make a place. Always. Without the right spirit, buildings are empty shells of nothing.

Researchers have found that people oblivious to the haunting phenomena when they first enter the haunted site are likely to pick up something in the same spots in the house as the primary witnesses who reported the haunting. This indicates that something actually exists in the environment at those spots on some level, physical or psychic.

Gaia—which in Greek means "the earth.

Our [western] culture cuts us off from our natural roots, instead of contributing toward the cultivation of the natural beings we are. This tradition has, in this way, rendered us extraneous to our environment, extraneous to one another as living beings, en even extraneous to ourselves.