Quotes About Environment

We are soon to have everywhere," wrote one futurist, "smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonators, sterilizers of water, air, food, and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads, and subways.

We'll know that Google has truly fulfilled its vision when the Googleplex no longer needs toilets at all.

Cultures of the fungus Penicillium have also been grown from sediment sampled 127 meters below the floor of the Pacific Ocean.15 This is a mystifying discovery, because we have no idea what a filamentous fungus is doing down there with no oxygen and so little to eat.

Trees are contrivances for lofting bacteria skyward to give them a clear view of a yellow dwarf.

One gram of rich forest soil contains an estimated 100 million prokaryotes.

there is nothing around it save green grass, deciduous

Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.

Cambrian period, some 550 million years ago, soon after a big global rise in atmospheric oxygen.

Eye infections were always worse in winter when everyone crowded together and the fires smoked.

The air was humid, so thick with moisture that she felt it like spider-webs across her face and kept wanting to hush it away, wipe it from her skin.

A good land, and rich, but poisoned by fear.

Peretur had never seen so many beasts living in so small a space; even closed, if she shut her eyes she could hear them, feel them, taste their curiosity.

This was the kind of work I understood. I knew where wood came from, that for every tree cut down, another was planted, that I could make a chair both functional and beautiful. I was adding to the world, not taking.

Cei called more taunts, but she was smelling the wind and no longer listening.

It never again mattered to me where I lived after I saw the spacious, dilapidated homes pass away and the wide open, deserted fields of my infancy covered with industrial and human filth.

The age draws near in which nature, displaced by man, will not survive except in arboretums and museums.

Depopulate and reforest ? first civilizing rule.

Art, likewise, is no longer seeking to represent utopias; rather, it is attempting to construct concrete spaces.

An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand...

We are fish swimming in a cooking pot

I recited the poem to myself and wondered whether it was really possible for anyone to remain unstained by his environment. It was an idea contrary to Marxism, which held that the environment molded the man.

our individual differences are a product of our environment or the result of genetic inheritance.

I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.

Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny. And, although many concerns have been expressed about the potential for unexpected consequences, the unexpected effects that have been observed so far have been benign.