Environment Quotes

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.

The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the pr...

These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they ...

Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a s...

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.

In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. Tha...

The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into t...

Above all, it seems to me wrongheaded and dangerous to invoke historical assumptions about environme...

For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrast...

People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the wor...

You’re talking about gold and silver, cash and securities. I’m talking about the sheer beauty of the...

If there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones an...

Look at all that rubbish," she said, watching the electric van slowly whirr from bin to bin, little ...

Cycling is good for people in all ways: their health, their well-being, and it does no damage to the...

It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Drea...

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to f...

Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environmen...

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social bound...

Put on a sweater.

We know a lot nowadays about how to extrapolate from rats to people, but we don't only have to rely ...

Right! Right! 'Stead of which, over here, they shit in the water until it's dangerous to drink, then...

The killers are the people who are ruining the world to line their pockets, poisoning us, burying us...

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

A small cabin stands in the Glacier Peak Wilderness, about a hundred yards off a trail that crosses ...

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. -...

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm,waving, swirling, tossing thei...

If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themsel...

The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if no other ...

It is not good for man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species. A world from...

We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb...

We got rich by violating one of the central tenets of economics: thou shall not sell off your capita...

The global economy is a doomsday machine that must be stopped and reprogrammed.

In the Soviet Union you weren’t allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot sp...

In the global marketplace of the future the price of every product will tell the ecological truth.

Do an overwhelming number of respected scientists believe that human actions are changing the Earth'...

[Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and ma...

For me, walking in a hard Dakota wind can be like staring at the ocean: humbled before its immensity...

I think it's important to approach a house in a way that's reflective of the original environment. M...

You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Let me tell you about our planet. Ea...

Every living thing deserves our respect... be it humble or proud, ugly or beautiful.

Put a man in the wrong atmosphere and nothing will function as it should. He will seem unhealthy in ...

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosph...

They've never known a time when people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or s...

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

Regulation is necessary to protect our natural environment, keep our food and medicine safe, and ens...

The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individua...

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order...

One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which ...

It is foolish to claim, as some do, that emigration into space offers a long-term escape from Earth'...

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: wi...

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...