Environment Quotes - Page 10

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.

The universe is an inexhaustible celebration of ultimate mystery!

Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

In a social environment that is ever crowded and impersonal, it is becoming increasingly important to reconsider the value of close personal relationships before we are driven to ask the forlorn question, 'Whatever happened to love?'

Eating is an environmental act.

The ocean is a mighty harmonist.

So, what's a nudge? A nudge is some small feature of the environment that attracts our attention and alters our behavior.

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.

Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment.

Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.

Do I shout, belittle or swear? No. I have sufficient confidence within myself to control my environment just by my presence, just by working hard and leading from the front.

The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.

Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way.

If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves

No institutions in modern society are better equipped to catalyze the necessary transition to a sustainable world than colleges and universities. They have access to the leaders of tomorrow and the leaders of today. What they do matters to the wider public.

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.

Everything in nature is resurrection.

I have become an environmentalist, because it is over the environment that the last of the Indian Wars will be fought.

You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.