Environment Quotes

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Man is a creature adapted for life under circumstances which are very narrowly limited. A few degrees of temperature more or less, a slight variation… — Robert Stawell Ball
Go to bed when summers ends, what a good idea; wake up bright and early when birds announce its spring. — Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire
Creativity does not depend on inherited talent or on environment or upbringing; it is the function of the ego of every human being. — Silvano Arieti
If I had ever, in any medium, seen any researcher or popularizer refer even once to any supposedly ay-producing circumstance as the proper hormone balance,… — Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind. — Gaylord Nelson
I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer. — Denis Hayes
There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster,… — Gaylord Nelson
There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up more toxic waste… — William J. Clinton
Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment. — Kenneth E. Boulding
When environments change, they usually do so pretty rapidly, at rates with which adaptation by natural selection would be hard put to keep up. When… — Ian Tattersall
We have taken a major step forward in providing a new high quality education facility at Longbridge. Not only will the new Bournville College shape… — Mike Murray
Leaders create an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward… — Elliott Jaques
You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through. — Ilya Ehrenburg
They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. — James G. Watt
In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops. — Paul Brooks
In looking at waste as an entirely modern, man-made idea, I stopped viewing garbage as garbage and instead slowly started to see it as a… — Tom Szaky
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. — William Ruckelshaus
We have to cultivate contentment with what we have. We really don't need much. When you know this, the mind settles down. Cultivate generosity. Delight… — Tenzin Palmo
If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today. — Unknown Author
We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin. — Leif Johansson

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