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Quotes About Environment

Below us somewhere in the gelatinous phantasmagoria of churning blue, the whales wouldn't be much aware of the storm.
~ Diane Ackerman
the trend for rewilding our cities is growing. It's positive, it enlightens, it's widespread, and it helps. We need to retrofit and reimagine cities as planet-friendly citadels. They're our hives and reefs. Sea mussels aren't the only animals living in individual shells that are glued together.
~ Diane Ackerman
What sort of stewards of the future planet will today's digital children be?
~ Diane Ackerman
In September 2013, the panel of 209 lead authors and 600 contributing authors, from 39 nations, poring over 9,200 scientific publications, came to these landmark conclusions: global warming is "unequivocal," sea levels are rising, ice packs are melting, and if we continue at this pace we "will cause further warming and changes in all components of the climate." However, they added, we can slow the process down if we begin at once.
~ Diane Ackerman
Heinz Heck wrote after the war that he and his brother had begun the back-breeding project out of curiosity, but also from the thought that if man cannot be halted in his mad destruction of himself and other creatures, it is at least a consolation if some of those kinds of animals he has already exterminated can be brought back to life again.
~ Diane Ackerman
Today, instead of adapting to the natural world in which we live, we've created a human environment in which we've embedded the natural world.
~ Diane Ackerman
A frog croaked a deep throaty I am .
~ Diane Ackerman
Silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words.
~ Diane Setterfield
I see," she said softly, nodding her head as though she really did. "Well, it's your business, of course." She turned her hand in her lap and stared into her damaged palm. "You are at liberty to say nothing, if that is what you want. But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grow pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you." Her eyes swiveled back to me. "Believe me, Margaret. I know.
~ Diane Setterfield
silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grow pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.
~ Diane Setterfield
There's no scientific basis for it." He'd go on about climate and exposure to sunlight and the beginning of agriculture and diet and all sorts of factors, but she was fascinated at the concept that so-called white people were simply descended from people whose environment left them with a need to absorb more vitamin D from the sun.
~ Unknown
The crime and humidity, along with a few million mosquitoes, deterred his appreciation of nature. His
~ DiAnn Mills
In short, climate change is the ruse to get the public to go for full socialism.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
A bigger problem is that a significant part of the Green New Deal—its guaranteed living wage, incomes for those unwilling to work, state guarantees for housing and education, government-run universal healthcare—has little or nothing to do with the climate. This seems to be socialism hiding behind an environmentalist banner. And this is of course why socialists like AOC and Bernie love it. They neither know nor care if the planet is getting hotter or colder.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
Cars, with their air conditioning, windows, sound systems, and great speed, keep us isolated from our environment... Self-propulsion, such as biking, walking, canoeing, puts us in touch with the land below and the world around us.
~ Dinty W. Moore
We were especially cautioned against eating animal protein, and fried foods which act as an irritant to the body. These act as aggravators to your system after many years of misuse. We do not mean to be judgmental, but the body is built for a certain type of vehicular traffic. The body cannot ascend in frequency to higher dimensional realms if the density and the toxins are polluting the environment of the human body.
~ Dolores Cannon
We] saw products as garbage even when they sat gleaming on store shelves, yet unbought. We didn't say, What kind of casserole will that make? We said, What kind of garbage will that make?
~ Don DeLillo
We surrounded ourselves with smoke and loud noise. That's the way we chose to live. I'm prepared to defend it.
~ Don DeLillo
Consume or die. That's the mandate of the culture. And it all ends up in the dump. We make stupendous amounts of garbage, then we react to it, not only technologically but in our hearts and minds. We let it shape us. We let it control our thinking. Garbage comes first, then we build a system to deal with it.
~ Don DeLillo
There were no laptops or handheld devices in class. Ilgauskas didn't exclude them; we did, sort of, unspokenly. Some of us could barely complete a thought without touch pads or scroll buttons, but we understood that high-speed data systems did not belong here. They were an assault on the environment, which was defined by length, width, and depth, with time drawn out, computed in heartbeats.
~ Don DeLillo
Whiz Co was a firm with an inside track to the future. The Future of Waste.
~ Don DeLillo
At first they said skin irritation and sweaty palms. But now they say nausea, vomiting, shortness of breath." "This is human nausea we're talking about. Not rats." "Not rats," he said. I gave him the binoculars. "Well it won't come this way." "How do you know?" he said. "I just know. It's perfectly calm and still today. And when there's a wind at this time of year, it blows that way, not this way.
~ Don DeLillo
Every day on the news there's another toxic spill. Cancerous solvents from storage tanks, arsenic from smokestacks, radioactive water from power plants. How serious can it be if it happens all the time? Isn't the definition of a serious event based on the fact that it's not an everyday occurrence?
~ Don DeLillo
è tipico dell'adolescente immaginare la fine del mondo come un accessorio del proprio contesto
~ Don DeLillo