Environment Quotes
3400 quotes by 2230 authors
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The simplest things are often the truest.
— Richard Bach
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection…
— M H Abrams
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An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.
— David Attenborough
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It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual…
— David Attenborough
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The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions…
— David Attenborough
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You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should…
— David Attenborough
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
— John James Audubon
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As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved health and well-being,…
— Diane Ackerman
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Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
— Richard Bach
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Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
— Francis Bacon
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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
— Francis Bacon
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A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.
— Kevin Bacon
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Action is the antidote to despair.
— Joan Baez
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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
— Russell Baker
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
— Ansel Adams
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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
— Alan Ball
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Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through…
— Alan Ball
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The recycling in my house was imposed by my kids.
— Antonio Banderas
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to…
— Edward Abbey
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