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Quotes About Environment

I used to feel competitive about a career, but now the only things I'm really passionate about are my family, the environment and Indians.
~ Robert Redford
We talk about what's important to Hispanics: education, family, creating an environment in which you can achieve what you want to achieve because there aren't going to be obstacles in your way.
~ Lionel Sosa
School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.
~ Bunker Roy
In a stagnant environment the body-mind creates its own adversity – disease and fantasy.
~ Peter J. Carroll
The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Mother is the dead heart of the family spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and watches the television.
~ Germaine Greer
The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.
~ Carl Bernstein
My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.
~ Hank Johnson
While vegans and meat-eaters disagree, we can all be united in our fear and hatred for the horror that is factory farming.
~ Joel Salatin
Distrust brings frustration and fear. So therefore, the lonely feeling automatically come. So, lonely feeling is not creation of environment, but creation of your own mental attitude.
~ Dalai Lama
My fear is that the global consumption of oil is going to increase, but European oil consumption has already reached its peak. The amount of oil available globally, I think, has already peaked.
~ Gunther Oettinger
You cant live a positive life around negative people.
~ Unknown
Dear mother nature, I'd like to cancel my monthly subscription.
~ Unknown
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find resources of strength that will endure as long as life lasts
~ Rachel Carson
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
~ Rene Dubos
Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another. We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The focus is always the right move towards every successful journey, turn on the inner light to your life and never allow darkness to darken your part or beat you down. Your environment, relationships and love you spread makes every step of life brighter journey.
~ Unknown
We don't get much of a spring or fall to speak of. Up here, for ten months a year, the weather has teeth in it.
~ Unknown
Heavy clouds quilted the world as Ethan turned off the Honda.
~ Marcus Sakey
Last night I watched the weather channel, as is my habit. Elsewhere in the world there are floods: roiling brown water, bloated cows floating by, survivors huddled on rooftops. Thousands have drowned. Global warming is held accountable: People must stop burning things up, it is said. Gasoline, oil, whole forests. But they won't stop. Greed and hunger lash them on, as usual.
~ Margaret Atwood
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
~ Margaret Atwood
In view of the fading animals the proliferation of sewers and fears the sea clogging, the air nearing extinction we should be kind, we should take warning, we should forgive each other Instead we are opposite, we touch as though attacking, the gifts we bring even in good faith maybe warp in our hands to implements, to manoeuvres
~ Unknown
Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.
~ Margaret J. Wheatley
Amid all the information available in our environment, which identity filter(s) do you use? Are you dedicated to popularity, to a role, to a cause, an ethic, a nation, an ethnicity? What identity gives meaning to your life?
~ Margaret J. Wheatley