Quotes About Environment

Zoos are becoming facsimiles — or perhaps caricatures — of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

Black and green

The best way to minimize your exposure to industrial toxins may be to eat as low as possible on the food chain, a plant-based diet.

But for most of the leading causes of death, the science shows that our genes often account for only 10–20 percent of risk at most.15 For instance, as you'll see in this book, the rates of killers like heart disease and major cancers differ up to a hundredfold among various populations around the globe. But when people move from low- to high-risk countries, their disease rates almost always change to those of the new environment.

Highly pathogenic bird flu viruses are primarily the products of factory farming.

The oceans are essentially humanity's sewer;

But when people move from low- to high-risk countries, their disease rates almost always change to those of the new environment.16 New diet, new diseases.

The most concentrated green-light source is seaweed, which has the iodine of seafood without the fat-soluble pollutants that build up in the aquatic food chain.

Thankfully, you can get the benefits without the risks by getting long-chain omega-3s from algae instead,

We eat almost as if the future doesn't matter.

Obesity may simply be a normal response to an abnormal environment.

bodies contain salmon pollutants may take between fifty to seventy-five years to clear the chemicals from their bodies.

Today, thanks to platform technologies, profit is wrought as much by the dismantling of mental resources as it is by the dismantling of natural resources. We have learned to harvest the solitude of others. Profiteers produce social grooming technologies, and agents of distraction swarm around us. Solitude is consumed and depleted as surely as Brazilian rainforests are toppled and the tar sands of Alberta are sucked dry.

There was a special Air Force outfit that flew defoliation missions. They were called the Ranch Hands, and their motto was, 'Only we can prevent forests.

When you start a session in R, the variables you create are in the global environment .GlobalEnv

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

Creativity requires asking questions for which an answer is not already known. The truth is that innovation is rarely the product of pure inspiration, that "Eureka!" moment when some genius comes up with a wholly new idea. Rather, innovation happens when people see things differently. It starts with a questioning culture that helps people gain new perspective and see things differently. Innovation is generated by great questions in an environment that encourages questions.

Leaf blowers have taken a world which was, on the whole, a decent place to live, in spite of talk radio, and turned it into a noisy and unpleasant vale filled with atomized bits of vegetal detritus.

We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.

Typical categories include the 6 Ms: manpower (personnel), machines, materials, methods, measurements, and Mother Nature (or environment)

You know, if it weren't for Earth's beauty-the birds-flowers-trees-I would never go back. It's too much trouble.

"Industrial organic" might sound like an oxymoron, but it is a reality.

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.