Quotes About Awareness

Stop thinking like Alice in Wonderland, Celia told herself sternly. You're a grown-up, it's no use shutting your eyes, wishing things would happen

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change.

Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.

Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it.

Eating is an environmental act.

Each of us now has 2.27 kg (5 lbs) of plastic embedded in our bodies.

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences.

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.

Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with no way out.

When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.

The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.

The ecological crisis is a moral issue.

We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.

Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.

The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at a horrific rate. We must understand that we can't buy it back.

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

My advice to everybody would be to go out as much as possible and deal with social inequality and environmental degradation because these issues are increasingly prescient.

The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.

One in eight plant species face extinction.

The planet is about to break out with fever, indeed it may already have, and we [human beings] are the disease. We should be at war with ourselves and our lifestyles.

Environmental issues are on everyone's mind. It's part of our culture now and I can only applaud and laud anyone who is doing what they can and raising awareness.