Quotes About Environment

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

The really great thing about my shoe store is that there's not one dead animal in it.

If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company.

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?

All this green stuff is great, it's great we don't have plastic bottles or plastic bags and all of that, but how about some great schools?

A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good.

Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.

Volcanic ash will be experienced in all parts of your world, as the volcanoes around your earth are simultaneously activated. Face masks and goggles will be of great value

Spiraling demand for resources of which our world contains a finite supply is the great long-term threat posed by globalisation. That is why we need new technology to relieve it.

Fossil fuels and mining is a short-term gambit. If we develop those resources at the expense of the environmental gold mine that is the Great Barrier Reef, we will all lose in the long run.

True happiness is always available to us, but first we have to create the environment for it to flourish.

Materialism is toxic to happiness, and we are losing our connection to the natural world.

There are seeds of happiness planted in every human soul. Our mental attitude and disposition constitute the environment in which these seeds may germinate.

If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.

Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.

How you feel right now is about equally genetic and circumstantial, but how you will feel on average over the next ten years is fully 80 percent because of your genes.

Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.

Mother earth cried so much that she has pool of tears more than the land of happiness.

Even the best Mindset will become contaminated and eventually blunted in a toxic organisational culture.

The health of our waters is the principle measure of how we live on the land.

Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system.

When the earth is sick and polluted, human health is impossible.... To heal ourselves we must heal our planet, and to heal our planet we must heal ourselves.

Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go into making us healthy.