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Environment Quotes by René Dubos
- Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.
- Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.
- Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
- Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.
- The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to…
- Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious manifestations, yet some of their worst enemies creep on them unobtrusively.
- Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population…
- It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.
- ...Pathological states are the consequence of several determinate factors acting simultaneously...The manifestations of any given agent differ profoundly from one person to another. ...Each noxious…
- Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his attempts…
- As far as life is concerned, there is no such thing as "Nature". There are only homes. Home is that environment to which the individual…
- The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle resulting in injury…
More Environment Quotes
- The simplest things are often the truest. — Richard Bach
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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
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural… — David Attenborough
- 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
- As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved… — Diane Ackerman
- Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. — Richard Bach
- Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. — Francis Bacon
- We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. — Francis Bacon