Environment Quotes - Page 7

Until we establish a felt sense of kinship between our own species and those fellow mortals who share with us the sun and shadow of life on this agonized planet, there is no hope for other species, there is no hope for the environment, and there is no hope for ourselves.

If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much.

The most important issue of the 21st century will be the condition of the global environment.

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

The young generation can influence their elders and can make them understand the environmental problems that are faced by us today. The youth can make them see that our environment is deteriorating day by day.

A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us.

Christ wears "two shoes" in the world: scripture and nature. Both are necessary to understand the Lord, and at no stage can creation be seen as a separation of things from God.

You are the master of your environment. You've got your own head, your own mind. So once you figure out what you want for yourself, you have to create the proper environment to make sure you can live out all the things you want.

Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price

You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.

In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a global whole - a whole which can be identified by everyone who is part of it.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional.

I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.

There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1.

We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.

In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own.

There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more.

We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.

You must somehow understand that we as horsemen can do very little to teach the horse. What we can do is to create an environment in which he can learn.

God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.

The environment is so fundamental to our continued existence that it must transcend politics and become a central value of all members of society.

The earth is what we all have in common.