Quotes About Environment

Successful artistic parents seem very rarely to give birth to equally successful artistic sons and daughters, and I suspect it may be because the urge to create, which must always be partly the need to escape everyday reality, is better fostered-- despite modern educational theory-- not by a sympathetic and 'creative' childhood environment, but the very opposite, by pruning and confining natural instinct.

I loathe the idea of cutting down trees. Two hundred years of shape and energy all gone in half an hour. It's revolting.

Las posibilidades de la civilización humana están enturbiadas por muchas incertidumbres de nuestra propia creación, incluyendo las guerras, el cambio de clima antropogénico, y la degradación del medio ambiente.

Did you know that some of the counties in the coalfields have the highest rates of cancer in the country?

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

The digital age was dragging older lawyers like the Boones into the world of paperless files and storage, and not a minute too soon... Why destroy so many trees to produce much paper that becomes useless almost as fast as it is filed away?

Because it's Appalachia. The coal companies are destroying our mountains, towns, culture, and lives, and it's not a story.

theory that a reduction in our population means

Whatever humanity does, it should be directed toward bringing order out of non-order. Our use of the environment should not impose disorder. This is not just a house that we inhabit; it is our divinely gifted home, and we are accountable for our use of it and work in it.

It is difficult to think of the "natural world" as sacred (because we just designated it "natural").

These points of continuity and discontinuity should have an important role in our interpretation of the Bible, and knowledge of them should guard against a facile or uninformed imposition of our own cognitive environment on the texts of ancient Israel, which is all too typical in confessional circles. This recognition should also create a more level playing ground as critical scholarship continues to evaluate the literature of the ancient world.

It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.

It's a no-win argument—that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.

Dear God!" the cook cried. "Soon all the wood on Twisted River will be pulpwood—for paper! What about toboggans is worse than paper?" "Books are made from paper!" Ketchum declared. "What role do toboggans play in your son's education?

We would be destroying a habitable world," Sloane said, at once repulsed and amazed.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

Even while you read this, whole square miles of identical boxes are spreading like gangrene; developments conceived in error, nurtured by greed, corroding everything they touch.

Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs.

Rodearán las ciénagas, no las atravesarán con dificultad.

I cannot subscribe to this modern idea that we should feel guilty about our role on earth

New-car smell is toxic to humans.

Urban birds have learned to line their nests with cigarette butts. Nicotine is a powerful insecticide that wards off mites, lice and fleas.

what is the good of a nice house without a decent planet to put it on H.D.Thoreau

Oliver Wendell Holmes, the physician father of the Supreme Court justice, was not much overstating when he declared, "I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind—and all the worse for the fishes.