Environment Quotes

Even in the pages of the New York Times and The New Yorker, it seems the epithet 'virtuous,' when ap...

I asked the feedlot manager why they didn't just spray the liquefied manure on neighboring farms. Th...

We should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered it. As individuals, we can make...

...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changi...

Limitation of scope, however, could represent a profound advantage from an ecological point of view....

Pages could be written on the immense losses of productive soil that occur annually in almost every ...

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, b...

The world is full of all sorts of brilliant stuff and I haven't found out all about it yet, so I don...

I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner t...

We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We star...

Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate en...

Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is ...

I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is ...

We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with t...

To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that co...

How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy...

Suppose that we believe that in 200 years, people would be prepared to pay a million dollars (that's...

As far as food is concerned, the great extravagance is not caviar or truffles, but beef, pork and po...

This is one of the greatest challenges of our time: to convert ourselves to a type of development th...

What need does the earth have of us?

Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the ...

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less t...

For the first time in the history of the world every human being is now subjected to contact with d...

Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquainta...

If, having endured much, we have at last asserted out "right to know," and if by knowing, we have co...

We are accustomed to look for the gross and immediate effects and to ignore all else. Unless this ap...

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just dra...

...where the preservation of a natural resource like the redwoods is concerned, that there is a comm...

Our ancestors have much to answer for.Why? What did they do?....Long ago, they used machines and dru...

Though this new forest grew mightily, elsewhere the mighty jungles fell. Elsewhere the coastal rain ...

Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.

[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: W...

We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's ...

We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well...

The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us....

Reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a ...

There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.

But you can't just leave it at that!" said Anathema, pushing forward. "Think of all things you could...

To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as t...

Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present...

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the hist...

We did not make ourselves, nor did we fashion a world that could not work without pain, and great pa...

If we take all this actions and if it turns out not be true, we have reduced pollution and have bett...

With ceremony, with forms of politeness and reassurance, they borrowed the waters of the River and i...

My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and go...

If we keep pulling death from the ground, we will reap death from the skies.

We can and must respond creatively to the triple crisis and simultaneously overcome dehumanization, ...

Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.

Those least responsible for climate change are worst affected by it.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends you choose for yo...

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ...

One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that...

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...