Quotes About Environment

Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.

We offer you the landscape of your birth -- Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame. We cannot ask forgiveness of the earth For killing what we cannot even name.

Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.

The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country.

It's the flock, the grove, that matters. Our responsibility is to species, not to specimens; to communities, not to individuals.

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

When the mind knows its own value, it strives to establish itself in the right environment that supports its growth and development.

It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year

We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born. We must protect the forests for those who can't speak for themselves such as the birds, animals, fish and trees.

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.

You can't fix education until you fix the community, education is not a building but a lifestyle and an environment.

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.

Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.

Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.

our planet is going to hell. But it's all OK, because it helps the growth figures.

I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.

Wendy rolled her window down. The night chill blasted into the car. She wrinkled her nose. "Phew. All I smell is arsenic trioxide and sodium nitrate. Americans don't garden, they wage chemical warfare on their plants.

It's a paradox to be an actress, living in the city, taking planes all the time, trying to find the right balance in this life, which is not so eco-friendly, and still try to respect the environment.

Respect the place you live, be aware of the impact that you have on things.

Be a Mother who is committed to loving her children into standing on higher ground than the enviroment surrounding them. Mothers are endowed with a love that is unlike any other love on the face of the earth.

We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men