Environment Quotes - Page 4

The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.

A stage setting is not a background; it is an environment.

The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.

The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education.

The health of our waters is the principle measure of how we live on the land.

Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.

In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.

I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest.

More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance.

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

Everything we personally own that’s made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we’re either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.

We're not products of our environments, we're products of our expectations.

Without environmental sustainability, economic stability and social cohesion cannot be achieved

We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.

There is something about dolphins. It is difficult to put into words.

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

A small grove massacred to the last ash, An oak with heart-rot, give away the show: This great society is going to smash; They cannot fool us with how fast they go, How much they cost each other and the gods. A culture is no better than its woods.

Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.

The environmental crisis is fundamentally a spiritual crisis.

We must strive to become good ancestors.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.

The environment isn't over here. The environment isn't over there. You are the environment.