Quotes About Environment

Mycelium steers the course of ecosystems by favoring successions of species. Ultimately, mycelium prepares its immediate environment for its benefit by growing ecosystems that fuel its food chains.

NASA reports that microbiologists at the University of Tennessee, led by Gary Sayler, have developed a rugged biological computer chip housing bacteria that glow upon sensing pollutants, from heavy metals to PCBs (Miller 2004). Such innovations hint at new microbiotechnologies on the near horizon. Working together, fungal networks and environmentally responsive bacteria could provide us with data about pH, detect nutrients and toxic waste, and even measure biological populations.

The best way for them to ensure their psychological survival is to be in control of their environment and the people in it at all times. That's why it's their way or the highway, and compromise and flexibility seem impossible.

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

L'éducation ne se borne pas à l'enfance et à l'adolescence. L'enseignement ne se limite pas à l'école. Toute la vie, notre milieu est notre éducation, et un éducateur à la fois sévère et dangereux. Learning transcends childhood and adolescence just as teaching transcends the classroom. Our environment is the most strict and dangerous educator we will ever have.

La saveur des fruits d'un arbre ne dépend pas de la figure du paysage qui l'environne, mais de la richesse invisible du terrain.

Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.

We have already exterminated 90% of the fish. The fish population is 90% smaller than it was before we began to wage war on the oceans. (p. 209)

We all speak different languages but we all speak the same language of saving carbon and saving our planet

Climate Change - "We cannot stop it but we can slow it down

Although it is so evident when you look at nature that there is incredible abundance, the united ego of mankind in mass hysteria about lack, rushes to destroy the planet in order to get its piece of the pie before it all "runs out.

I had never spent so much time by the sea, and hated the way the air thickened with salt and sat on my skin and made me always long for a bath. I was far more comfortable with dust.

The child doesn't just live in his environment, it becomes a part of him.

She was quite surprised to notice that the "toys" she had placed in the room were among those things virtually untouched.

This means that everything the child must use in taking care of himself must be in proportion to his size and ability; the hook to hang his clothes on; the places where he washes and brushes and teeth, where he hangs his towel....

novelty to keep babies busy so that they are not unhappy and bothering us. Babies seek novelty to learn something previously not known by them about their world; as such it is a key characteristic and has a purpose. Too often, adults are completely thoughtless in what they give to infants, as if "any old thing" would do. If we want to give our babies an optimal environment, we need to think through the purpose of all that we give

The common sense of people will surely prove to them someday that mutual support and cooperation are only sensible for the security and happiness of all. Such faith keeps me continually ready and purposeful with energy to do what one person can towards shaping the environment in which the human being can grow with freedom.

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

Mas o panorama reduzia-se a porcos e galinhas passeando num monte de esterco, meia dúzia de palhotas, algumas ruínas de alvenaria e, ao fundo, na outra margem do Cubango, o Rundu, a Namíbia. Outro país, noutro planeta, a um segundo-luz.

If you can't save the forest, plant a tree. - Mr. Morrison, Humane Society volunteer

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

your mind a petty tyrant who needs to organize and control the people and environment around you to establish serenity?

Where have all the flowers gone?The girls have picked them every one.Oh, when will they ever learn?

If it can't be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.