“Silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words.” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
If it's unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature — Mollie Beattie Copy Share Image
The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Our relationship with Nature... best way of forging this relationship... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
If solar and wind farms are needed to protect the natural environment, why do they so often destroy it? — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
To care for the natural world is the most effective insurance policy we can have — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
The focus of environmental ethics should indeed be on the virtues and how these inform our relationship to natural environments. — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Acquiring the trick of listening to birds will teach you how better to enjoy life and how better to endure it — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
I thrive on production. It feels very much like a natural environment for me. — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
An agricultural landscape produces food but it also provides water, requires biodiversity to underpin soil function, pollination and other useful services, and… — Tim Benton Copy Share Image
The mountains are exceptional places for, as the natural environment is concerned, they are the concentration of the wildest possible variety of… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
“If human beings were to treat one another's personal property the way they treat the natural environment, we would view that behavior… — Patriarch Bartholomew Copy Share Image
Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment,… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have… — Helena Christensen Copy Share Image
I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“The earth, which we all have in common, is our deepest bond, and our behavior toward it cannot help but be an… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Yet the Bible teaches that the local church is the natural environment for discipling. In fact, it teaches that the local church… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
The significance of the vast Islamic scientific tradition for Muslims and especially for young Muslims today is not only that it gives… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile… — Paul Brooks Copy Share Image
Doing work which has to be done over and over again helps us recognize the natural cycles of growth and decay, of… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Growing up in Northern Ontario provided me with a strong affinity for the natural environment that was so eloquently responded to by… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
“This is one of the dangers of their [teenagers] ineluctable depth: they live the poetry, the true value of the way words… — Julia Langbein Copy Share Image
Environmental history was . . . born out of a moral purpose, with strong political commitments behind it, but also became, as… — Donald Worster Copy Share Image
“Architecture without pain, art looked at in undiluted pleasure, enjoyment without anxiety, compunction, heartache: there is no beggar woman in the church… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
“Limitation of scope, however, could represent a profound advantage from an ecological point of view. The sun, the wind and the earth… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth. — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine. — Lillian Russell Copy Share Image
If we once, and for so long, lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind. — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
'Deracine' is French for uprooting, or someone who's been displaced from their natural environment. — Hidetaka Miyazaki Copy Share Image
We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image