Environment Quotes - Page 22

Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth.... Yet one certainly does not cure a treatment-induced disease by increasing the treatment dosage.

Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.

The environment as we perceive it is our invention.

I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.

You should be allowed to be a modern city dweller and still care about the environment.

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent

Until every individual feels personally responsible for the careful planning and the preservation of natural resources, the inexorable destruction will go on.

A food waste reduction hierarchy-feeding people first, then animals, then recycling, then composting-serves to show how productive use can be made of much of the excess food that is currently contributing to leachate and methane formation in landfills.

The world hasn't ended, but the world as we know it has-even if we don't quite know it yet.

Im interested in the liberating aspect of being totally untethered, let loose in the worst possible environments. My favorite artists are always women that do things that are so wrong... I like things to be seven kinds of wrong. If they are seven kinds of wrong, sometimes the wrongs neutralize themselves, and the whole thing becomes.

Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.

It is our duty to preserve huge tracts of land in something resembling its native condition. The biological interactions necessary to insure the continuities of life are astonishingly complex, and cannot take place in islands of semiwilderness like the national parks.

The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation, including the loss of biodiversity and topsoil, accelerates, causing development efforts to falter.

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.

Nature is telling us that if you don't respect the environment then you are living with artificial needs and a consumerism that is destroying the very conditions we need to survive.

I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet. Unfortunately there are countries who are still destroying it, but we really hope the conservation message rubs off in our film. Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.

I think we have to do something about the environment and how we are polluting the planet.

Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.

The funny thing about sustainability is you gotta sustain it.

People blame their environment, their education, their opportunities, their luck, for their condition. They are wrong. There is one person to blame — and only one — THEMSELVES.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Plasticity is an intrinsic property of the human brain and represents evolution's invention to enable the nervous system to escape the restrictions of its own genome and thus adapt to environmental pressures, physiologic changes, and experiences.

To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges.