Natural Environment Quotes
79 Natural Environment quotes by 73 unique authors
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In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the palpable site, or…
— David Abram
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An ecovillage is a human scale, full-featured settlement which integrates human activities harmlessly into the natural environment, supports healthy development and can be continued into…
— Robert Gilman
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The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment is so much more sensitive…
— Rusty Schweickart
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Environmental history was . . . born out of a moral purpose, with strong political commitments behind it, but also became, as it matured, a…
— Donald Worster
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We are living as if we had three planets' worth of resources to live with rather than just one. We need to cut by about…
— David Miliband
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Just as the natural environment depends on biodiversity, so the human environment depends on cultural diversity, because no one civilization encompasses all the spiritual, ethical…
— Jonathan Sacks
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Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements of…
— Harold Bloom
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The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on both sides of…
— Dan Miller
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The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country’s dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much…
— Quentin Bryce
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We all, parents, educators, community leaders, and every... citizen, need to come together to find new ways to engage children with the natural environment.
— Laura Bush
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A natural environment is far more complex than any playing field.
— Richard Louv
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I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which…
— John F. Kennedy
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We should not knowingly allow any species or race to go extinct. And let us go beyond mere salvage to begin the restoration of natural…
— E. O. Wilson
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...our societies appear to be intent on immediate consumption rather than on investment for the future. We are piling up enormous debts and exploiting the…
— Lesslie Newbigin
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Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.
— Pope Francis
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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
— Marie Curie
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Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment,…
— Arthur Erickson
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Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
— Hans Hofmann
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I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
— Alan Hovhaness
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I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just…
— Penelope Keith
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To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
— Helen Keller
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If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.
— Wangari Maathai
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We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
— Wangari Maathai
Who Wrote These Natural Environment Quotes
73 authors contributed a total of 79 Natural Environment Quotes, led by these top contributors: