Environment Quotes

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Faced with the widespread destruction of the environment, people everywhere are coming to understand that we cannot continue to use the goods of the earth… — Pope John Paul II
For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the… — Ellsworth Huntington
From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment. — Ellsworth Huntington
History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another. — Ellsworth Huntington
In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features… — Ellsworth Huntington
Instead of adjusting students to docile membership in whatever group they happen to be placed, we should equip them to cope with their environment, not… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
It is not the organs-that is, the character and form of the animal's bodily parts-that have given rise to its habits and particular structures. It… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied. That is not… — Thomas Kuhn
Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it. — Rene Dubos
No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of… — Ellsworth Huntington
One tragic example of the loss of forests and then water is found in Ethiopia. The amount of its forested land has decreased from 40… — Al Gore
The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate the reckless environmental destruction that… — Al Gore
The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops. Emergence results in… — Fritjof Capra
The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has been organized into… — John Dewey
What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the… — Andrew Carnegie
[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of… — Erwin Schrodinger
The nucleus has to take care of the inheritance of the heritable characters, while the surrounding cytoplasm is concerned with accommodation or adaptation to the… — Ernst Haeckel
The constancy of the internal environment is the condition for free and independent life: the mechanism that makes it possible is that which assured the… — Claude Bernard
I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and women of goodwill:… — Pope Francis

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