Environment Quotes - Page 11

Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.

Our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable. Our technical civilization makes up particularly vulnerable. There is talk all over the scientific community about climate change. Many of them [scientists] agree, the end of human life on earth is assured.

To be modern is to destroy nature.

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.

I come from suburban America. It was a very safe environment and it was a good place to come from in that it was a good place to leave.

Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.

Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.

To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.

Be gentle with the earth.

We have to base architecture on the environment.

There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.

In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before the interests of a deified market, which become the only rule.

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

Dripping water hollows out a stone

Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.

I know who made the environment and he's coming back and going to burn it all up. So yes, I drive an SUV.

Environmental damage such as graffiti, fly-posting and general littering is a menace that is becoming all too prevalent, not just in inner cities but in many communities - urban and rural.

Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is natures red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development.

A developed country is one that allows all its citizens to enjoy a free and healthy life in a safe environment

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

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 the creation of novelty, and this novelty is often qualitatively different from the phenomenon out of which it emerged.

It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment.

Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems

The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. This wealth has been gained by rapid short-term exploitation of the environmental system, but it has blindly accumulated a debt to nature-a debt so large and so pervasive that in the next generation it may, if unpaid, wipe out most of the wealth it has gained us.

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.