Quotes About Environment

Nature has given us this for free, it was meant to sustain us, we will not allow it to become a monopoly to finance the Imperial Army.

Carbon trading engages finance directors. It takes the issue of energy efficiency right to the top of the company.

Every plant has its fitness and must be placed in its proper surroundings so as to bring out its full beauty. Therein lies the art of landscaping.

If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.

Philosophers of biology generally recognize that evolutionary fitness (roughly, an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment) is multiply realizable.

I haven't bought any leather articles for a very long time. My ideal is to be able to avoid all animal products, in food as well as clothing.

Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system.

Becoming a vegan is a sure way of completely avoiding participation in the abuse of farmed animals. Vegans are a living demonstration of the fact that we do not need to exploit animals for food.

If we can have a fast food restaurant on almost every corner, then we can certainly have a garden.

One of the major problems is what we do to the soil, the air, the water and everything, we take in our food.

All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.

If your homeland were invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?

Increasing food production to feed an increased population results in yet another increase in population.

One day people will look back with amazement that we ever sought to grow our food with poisons.

All I'm saying is that there is a price to be paid at the sharp end.. environmentally and everywhere else.. for the food that is produced in a particular way.

The world is hung up on food-based biofuels. Not only are they the wrong thing, they're the uneconomic thing.

Our heavily meat-centered culture is at the very heart of our waste of the earth's productivity.

Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.

Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed in isolation.

Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.

The more people there are, the more food we need, the more space we occupy, the more resources and consumer goods we wish to have and the more development has to take place

What we often fail to recognize is how efficient a vegan diet is. Less land, less water, more food for our spiraling population.

I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.