Environment Quotes

No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever called...

at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence...

The Earth is what we all have in common.

The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that ev...

A crowd whose discontent has risen no higher than the level of slogans is only a crowd. But a crowd ...

At this point, I want to say point-blank what I hope is already clear: though agrarianism proposes t...

Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in th...

The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as "the environment" -- that is,...

They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as ...

Now we, if not in the spirit, have been caught up to see our earth, our mother, Gaia Mater, set like...

Consider this: all the ants on the planet, taken together, have a biomass greater than that of human...

Ultimately a regulation is a signal of design failure...it is what we call a license to harm: a perm...

Before I went to college I read two books. I read a book “Moral Mazes” by Robert Jackall which is a ...

I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and se...

The environment is everything that isn't me.

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... creation of new wilderness in the full sen...

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

The boundary between tame and wild exists only in the imperfections of the human mind.

Above all we should, in the century since Darwin, have come to know that man, while now captain of t...

No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never...

If you love a tree you will be more beautiful than before!

Karma yoga is giving food to the hungry, clothes to the needy, shelter to the homeless, education to...

Caring a tree is caring of your soul.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It's one of the first things you find out there. What y...

Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.

Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when...

And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the pape...

Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises--War and Shop...

The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we l...

Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, polluti...

Each food items in a typical U.S. meal has traveled an average of 1,500 miles....If every U.S. citiz...

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient ...

Perhaps it’s my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is t...

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable ...

I'm always amazed at the human capacity to not make fundamental changes, but instead merely adapt. I...

New Rule: Oil companies must stop with the advertisements implying they're friends of the environmen...

New Rule: You can't put a windmill in your campaign ad if you voted against every single bill that m...

There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there...

Pity the meek for they shall inherit the earth.

Well we're waiting here in Allentown,For the Pennsylvania we never found,For the promises our teache...

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international prio...

Another glorious feature of many modern science museums is a movie theater showing IMAX or OMNIMAX f...

An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle ab...

Old-time ranchers planted cheatgrass because it would green up fast in the spring and provide early ...

In this century wars will not be fought over oil, as in the past, but over water. The situation is b...

Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the ambe...

I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environm...

Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on ...

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

Modern life seems to recede further and further away from nature, and closely connected with this fa...

The earth has grown a nervous system, and it's us.

The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides...

Now, over half of us live in an urban environment. My home, too, is here in the city of London. Look...

Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.

The river of his youth had been diverted and poured out broadly across the land to seep through dirt...

If we humans are good at anything, it’s thinking we’ve got a terrific idea and going for it without ...

There are some things in the world we can't change - gravity, entropy, the speed of light, and our b...

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to ...

We are well on our way to a unified theory of biology that will merge body and environment, brain an...

I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the ...

Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumptio...

Even if through simple living and rigorous recycling you stopped your own average Americans annual o...

This book is about fighting back. The dominant culture -civilization- is killing the planet, and it ...

To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way a...

There were no laptops or handheld devices in class. Ilgauskas didn't exclude them; we did, sort of, ...

What do you consider the most interesting man-made structure in the galaxy?The dam they are building...

I don’t know why we keep building these fucking dams,” Adams said in a surprisingly forceful British...

People don't have dominion over Nature. it's gone beyond that. Human beings and the world are now th...

This past year - if you'd have tried, you'd have seen even more clearly the futility of trying to ch...

I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and esp...

If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first boo...

God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first boo...

God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first boo...

God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first boo...

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the a...

California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.

If you are a feminist and are not a vegan, you are ignoring the exploitation of female nonhumans and...

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the aspha...

The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words f...

Governments are deemed to succeed or fail by how well they make money go round, regardless of whethe...

Environment' is a term that creates no pictures in the mind, which is why I have begun to use 'natur...

Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.

The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy mo...

Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord.

Her hope was to preserve what she called The Way, to keep it alive, for that future moment when the ...

The patriotism in Britain comes from us being a leader. On jobs, on tax havens, on workers' rights, ...

People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.

One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps ...

The sun moon and stars would have disappeared long ago had they been within the reach of predatory ...

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. ...

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things...

Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a s...

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for...

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.