Quotes About Environment

The spirit we create together in a group. Whenever people come together they create a field of energy that is the combination of their individual spirits and intentions. This field can be shaped purposefully or left to form on its own. Too often groups make the mistake of assuming that getting down to business is the most effective way of using their time together. They fail to intentionally create a positive learning environment.

There are some people who don't even know enough to fall in love with the water.

Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.

There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. A

Las máquinas hacían la vida más fácil, o eso es lo que creíamos, pero invadían y despedazaban la tierra y el cielo de maneras que apenas comprendíamos. Estas dos primeras innovaciones, el cultivo y la creación de maquinas que trabajaran para nosotros, tendrían que habernos enseñado a cuidar del mundo, pero no lo hicieron. Lo único que aprendimos fue a inventar formas de destruirlo mejor.

Even the hated wolf kills only for food and only for immediate need. Maybe it is man who will eventually perish as he destroys the land and all that it offers, taking the animals down with him.

the fundamental attribution error is the tendency of human beings to attribute the negative or frustrating behaviors of their colleagues to their intentions and personalities, while attributing their own negative or frustrating behaviors to environmental factors.

Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?

People began to live ON the earth rather than WITHIN it

The loud is a different kind of loud, because swamp loud is just curiosity, creachers figuring out who you are and if yer a threat. Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yerself left at all? Swamp

In a place of all this beauty and potential, we just repeat the same mistakes. Do we hate paradise so much we have to be sure it becomes a trash heap?

That's one of the best things about horror movies – they're not real life. They're like emotional cardio. They give us the chance to be terrified in a consequence-free environment. That's the joy of all fiction, really: you get the benefit of experiencing something without the burden of having to actually experience it.

These findings and those from other research led Lyster and Mori to propose the counterbalance hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, feedback is more likely to be noticed if learners are oriented in a direction that is opposite to what they have become accustomed to in their instructional environment. One example of this would be that learners who receive L2 instruction that is focused on meaning/content need feedback that directs their attention to form more explicitly.

Bonnie Schwartz (1993), for example, concludes that instruction and feedback change only superficial aspects of language performance and do not affect the underlying systematic knowledge of the new language. She argues that language acquisition is based on the availability of natural language in the learner's environment. Interaction with speakers of that language is sufficient to trigger the acquisition of the underlying structure of the language.

Things are changing at a speed we never dreamed. We'll be talking nuclear war. Pesticides will be a food group. No song birds, no wildflowers. Nothing but collapsing hives and lines of the rich getting ready to board a ship for a night on the moon.

These small quantities of mercury aren't harmful. Only large quantities are harmful. If small quantities of mercury were harmful, we'd have to move to a different planet.

We will speak for the books." ... "Like the Lorax?" "The Lorax speaks for the trees," I remind her. "Books are made out of paper. Paper is made out of trees." "What about e-books?" "We can speak for them too." "Audiobooks?" "Audiobooks speak for themselves." She grins. "Get it?

and cut down many trees. When the Humans

Shit is a serious business, and anyone caught dumping it in the streets is arrested. With

If a man is not given a fair opportunity to be virtuous, if his environment chokes his moral aspirations, I say that he has got the one important cause of complaint and rebellion against society. Of course it is always possible to be a martyr but then we do not wish to be martyrs. We prefer to be treated with justice and then martyrdom is not required.

De zee is blauw, het bos is groen

Boredom is a cue that needs aren't being met. It's a signal that your environment lacks interest, variety, and newness. Just as the pain of a burn tells us where the damage is and motivates us to respond appropriately, boredom motivates us to seek out intellectual stimulation and social contact, to learn and engage and act. To be without boredom would be a curse.

We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops.

In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.