Quotes About Environment

There are no other Everglades in the world…. The miracle of the light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slow-moving below, the grass and water that is the meaning of the central fact of the Everglades of Florida. It is a river of grass.

When it came time to populate the one thousand miles of our nation-state, we planted 70 percent of the people at the southern end where only 30 percent of the water was made. This wasn't misplaced people, we told ourselves. This was misplaced rain. In our resolve to move those molecules of water to where the crops and houses grew, California pulled off the ultimate sleight of hand.

Here's the bottom line: where you are geographically affects where you are spiritually. A few years ago I came up with a simple formula: change of place + change of pace = change of perspective.

No, he needed to mould the context, to shape his environment in a way that would stimulate and spark, that would challenge and charge him.

I'll never stop eating animals, I'm sure, but I do think that for the benefit of everyone, the time has come to stop raising them industrially and stop eating them thoughtlessly.

America's food system is broken.

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

They manage our perception and interpretation of environmental information in a way that is consistent with what we believe.

In order to change conditions outside ourselves, whether they concern the environment or relations with others, we must first change within ourselves.

Remember: You can't always change the people around you. But you can change the people you're around.

People's early experiences shape how crazy or how sane they become.

You can't always change the people around you. But you can change the people you're around.

what right [do] people in wealthy countries have to blame the poor for their poverty, much less for humanity's environmental dilemma, when it [is] rich countries' consumption patterns that [are] responsible for the vast majority of the world's resource depletion and ecosystem destruction?

We need a grassroots movement and government policies and programs to change the food landscape and the built environment to give our children a chance to have happy, healthy successful lives.

Your genes are not your destiny. They load the gun, but your environment pulls the trigger.

Michael Pollan, in his book Cooked, concurs. He says, "The decline of everyday home cooking doesn't only damage the health of our bodies and our land but also our families, our communities and our sense of how our eating connects us to the world.

And food is the biggest "environmental" regulator of that complex system we call our bodies.

This is also known as patient-centered health care, rather than disease-focused medicine, and it is a fundamental underpinning of functional medicine—a revolutionary new way to understand the underlying causes of disease and how our genes, our environment, and our lifestyle interact to determine health or disease.

Nature remains focused on survival.

Our very human to simplify and seek one answer may explain our ongoing difficulty in recognizing impending synergy and acting before systems collapse. We are prone to accept death by a thousand little cuts, in which one degraded aspect of our environment or health becomes familiar and accepted as normal--and then another.

The southern residents are the most photographed, filmed, recorded, and documented mammals on the planet who aren't either running a country or headlining Hollywood blockbusters.

Scientists warn that if orcas can't survive, we won't either.

If you are what you eat, you're part plastic - because every animal on earth is eating it.

I particularly dislike the high-profile switch-off campaigns where whole cities are plunged into darkness for an hour as a supposedly symbolic gesture about energy use. So is the implication that we all need to live in constant gloom to reduce CO2 emissions?