Environment Quotes


We are seeds as well as parasites to the earth. We can either give or take depending on our perception of growth. Zephyr McIntyre Environment 205
I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness. Aldo Leopold Environment 131
God has in fact written two books not just one. Of course we are all familiar with the first book he wrote namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation. Francis Bacon Environment 104
We seem to do better in the studio than we do in a live environment. Josh Silver Environment 101
There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation. Herman E. Daly Environment 95
People would rather believe than know. Edward O. Wilson Environment 90
We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making. Joseph Chilton Pearce Environment 88
When we become a part of anything, it becomes a part of us. David Harold Fink Environment 85
It is estimated that all kinds of illegal wildlife trade in Brazil withdraw from nature almost 38 million animals every year, a business worth almost $2 billion. Juliana Machado Ferreira Environment 83
In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs. William Bligh Environment 81
Are we at some kind of evolutionary equipoise as a species? Or, are we destined to become something different - something, perhaps, even better adapted to the environment? Harvey Fineberg Environment 81
The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman. Marjory Stoneman Douglas Environment 81
A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires. Orison Swett Marden Environment 80
Theres one thing you can say for air pollution you get utterly amazing sunrises. Terry Pratchett Environment 77
A car is like your mother-in-law: you have to have good relationship with her, but she cannot command your life. Jaime Lerner Environment 77
Hurricanes couldnt remove you from my mind. Youre my world and Im incapable of not loving you. The Destiny of Dragons The Book of Resurrection Billie Jo Williams Environment 76
Since this was the first and only series I had ever produced, I was unaware of what the Normal environment was for a studio. I tried to run it as I did in my SF studio. Joe Murray Environment 76
If all of your electricity in your lifetime came from nuclear [energy], the waste from that lifetime of electricity would go in a Coke can. Stewart Brand Environment 76
Imagine if you could take wild plants and consume them, food miles would basically turn into food feet. Homaro Cantu Environment 76
We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments. Thomas J. Peters Environment 75
Man shapes himself through decision that shape his environment. Ren Environment 75
The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions, all has a single, very simple solution. ... Here it is: Put a price on carbon. Al Gore Environment 73
Every man is like the company he is wont to keep. Euripides Environment 73
If we humans are good at anything its thinking weve got a terrific idea and going for it without acknowledging the potential consequences or our own ignorance. David Suzuki Environment 71
Suddenly, we humans - a recently arrived species, no longer subject to the checks and balances inherent in nature - have grown in population, technology and intelligence to a position of terrible power. Paul MacCready Environment 71
Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings; all we need to do is solidify the parts that we need to be solid, and then excavate the sand, and we have our architecture. Magnus Larsson Environment 70
[Inside Biosphere 2,] I literally was eating the same carbon over and over again. I was eating myself in some strange sort of bizarre way. Jane Poynter Environment 70
Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the general conduct of the natives there did not appear the least occasion for so much caution. William Bligh Environment 69
I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way. Allan Sloan Environment 68
Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the fish are smaller than the pencils we use to count them. Enric Sala Environment 68
Despite its very small weight, enough [isoprene] is emitted into the atmosphere every year to equal the weight of all the people on the planet. Rachel Pike Environment 67
CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally. ... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past. Al Gore Environment 67
Forget your environmental footprint. Think about your ethical footprint. What good is it to build a zero-carbon, energy efficient complex, when the labor producing this architectural gem is unethical at best? Cameron Sinclair Environment 66
We need to reduce CO2 emissions in 10 to 15 years by 80 percent in order to avert catastrophic effects. ... What are catastrophic effects? A three degree centigrade climate change rise that will result in 50 percent species extinction. Robin Chase Environment 65
I believe that people were not so allergic to their environment until they began polluting themselves and their world with so many drugs and toxins. Garth Stein Environment 63
We are the environment. Charles Panati Environment 63
[Vultures are] our natural garbage collectors. They clean up carcasses right to the bone. Munir Virani Environment 63
The grid of tomorrow is no grid. And energy - clean, efficient energy - will one day be free. Justin Hall-Tipping Environment 62
From the perspective of climate change, the average urban dweller in the U.S. has about one-third the carbon footprint of the average suburban dweller. Ellen Dunham-Jones Environment 61
Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other. Majora Carter Environment 60
Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists. David Brin Environment 59
Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates. Vandana Shiva Environment 59
If you look out at nature, you find that as you tend to see suspended animation, you tend to see immortality. Mark Roth Environment 59
You could look at nature as being like a catalog of products, and all of those have benefited from a 3.8-billion-year research and development period. Michael Pawlyn Environment 59
The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment not the reverse. Herman E. Daly Environment 59
...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then by changing the conditions one can transform the same people into matchless performers. Muhammad Yunus Environment 59
By loving and leaving all that oil has done for us ... we are able to then begin the creation of a world which is more resilient, more nourishing, and in which we find ourselves fitter, more skilled and more connected to each other. Rob Hopkins Environment 58
Its cool when fashion recycles itself its not cool when sustainable living does because it means there was and is as I write a period of absolute and possibly irreversible destruction. Cameron Conaway Environment 58
As important as it is to change the lightbulbs, it is more important to change the laws. Al Gore Environment 57
We were losing natural capital - the benefits that flow from nature to us ... at an extraordinary rate, of the order of two to four trillion dollars-worth of natural capital. Pavan Sukhdev Environment 56

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