Environment Quotes - Page 25

Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!

When geologists announced the beginning of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, humans destroying the environment, one of the main things they pointed to is the use of plastics in the earth.

The businessmen of the world who are not taking environmental matters seriously are just wasting money, aside from damaging the environment it's wasting money and in this economic climate you just can't afford to do that.

Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance.

To a large degree, we are still bound to the modern scientific spirit, that characterizes reality merely by its material and mechanic aspects, without including life, consciousness and the intimate communion with that which poets, musicians and artists bring us in their magnificent works.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming.

The sustainable alternative is one in which smaller and smaller regions produce more and more of the goods they need closer to where they are consumed. These economies will contribute little to the greenhouse effect and will survive the exhaustion of oil.

The Earth's population will be culled from today's 6.6 billion to as few as 500 million, with most of the survivors living in the far latitudes - Canada, Iceland, Scandinavia, the Arctic Basin.

The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.

We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment.

I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.

The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.

We are social beings and our brains grow in a social environment.

For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.

I started by saying that one of the most fateful errors of our age is the belief that the problem of production has been solved. This illusion, I suggested, is mainly due to our inability to recognize that the modern industrial system, with all its intellectual sophistication, consumes the very basis on which is has been erected. To use the language of the economist, it lives on irreplaceable capital which it cheerfully treats as income.

A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.

Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.

The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.

If you understand it from an ecological or sustainability perspective, agriculture is the primary way we meet most of our needs, and it's the greatest form of human intervention on our environment. It has intimately shaped our culture as powerfully as industrial modernity, but for ten thousand years rather than two hundred.

You must always be very cautious and be as vigilant as you can. You work diligently to provide a secure environment,.

The revolt against one's environment is usually 'shame' of one's environment.

Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It's not arguing a point. It's creating an environment.

Celebrate Earth Day! A time to recognize the gains we have made. A time to create new actions to accelerate environmental progress. Protect our planet not only on Earth Day, but everyday!

I firmly believe that if your environment works for you and your family, it translates into a better life.