Environment Quotes - Page 23

I think there is a danger that an environmental crisis can be used in precisely the same way as the terrorist threat can be used in terms of giving up freedom.

We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.

There's a worldwide linking of environmental activists, developmental experts and human rights advocates. And they're using the two frameworks, in particular environmental standards and human rights.

It is a woman's business to be interested in the environment. It's an extended form of housekeeping.

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

If we pass on an unsustainable environment to our children we have failed them.

A sustainable economy represents nothing less than a higher social order one as concerned with future generations as with our own, and more focused on the health of the planet and the poor than on material acquisitions and military might. While it is a fundamentally new endeavor, with many uncertainties, it is far less risky than continuing with business as usual.

People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.

It is also vital that our relationship with nature and the environment be included in our education systems. This is not longer something cute or nice to do; it is now a singular imperative.

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

You have to hold yourself accountable for your actions, and that's how we're going to protect the Earth.

Look at your business and the activities that you undertake. Then, start to think about not just your economic concerns, but about social and environmental impacts that businesses have.

If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.

When I vote for a candidate I always try to learn as much as I can about them, but I guess I focus a lot on environmental issues, and I tend to vote along those lines.

Sustainability: It's the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do, it's the profitable thing to do.

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.

We can no more create the perfect environment for our children than we can create perfect children.

There are two types of people: One strives to control his environment, the other strives not to let his environment control him. I like to control my environment.

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

The life, beauty and meaning of the whole created order, from the tomtit to the Milky Way, refers back to the Absolute Life and Beauty of its Creator: and so lived, every bit has spiritual significance.

I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.

Humans create their cognitive powers by creating the environments in which they exercise those powers

The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.

There's no more delicious irony on the face of the Earth than environmental protesters being led away in plastic handcuffs that have a biodegradability horizon line of, like, 40,000 years.

In an ecological perspective, in other words, there are few accidents or anomalies, only outcomes based on system structure and dynamics. Climate change and glittering malls, Calcuttan poverty and sybaritic wealth, biotic impoverishment and economic growth, militarism and terrorism, global domination and utter vulnerability are not different things but manifestations of a single system.