Environment Quotes - Page 9

Because of the Incarnation, I salute all remaining matter with reverence.

Health is not luck. We have an innate ability to maintain good health if we establish the optimal environment for healing.

Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy! It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there's an enormous fusion reactor safely banked a few million miles from us. It delivers more than we could ever use in just about 8 minutes. And it's wireless!

DURING THE PAST TWO TO THREE DECADES, we have acquired substantial evidence that most chronic diseases in America can be partially attributed to bad nutrition. Expert government panels have said it, the surgeon general has said it and academic scientists have said it. More people die because of the way they eat than by tobacco use, accidents or any other lifestyle or environmental factor.

We have to take care about nature as much as nature is taking care about us. Nature is very kind with us. And if you want to enjoy the gifts of nature and the promises of nature, we have to defer to nature and its needs, its rules, its norms.

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.

If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilisation developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO₂ will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm [parts per million] to at most 350 ppm... If the present overshoot of this target CO₂ is not brief, there is a possibility of seeding irreversible catastrophic effects.

People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.

Once-ler! You're making such smogulous smoke - my poor swomee swans, why they can't sing a note! No one can sing who has smog in his throat.

Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it.

A manager's ability to turn meetings into a thinking environment is probably an organization's greatest asset.

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

I feel vulnerable on mountains. It's an uncontrolled, raw environment. It's very - it's truly humbling.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.

We must treat water as if it were the most precious thing in the world, the most valuable natural resource. Be economical with water! Don't waste it! We still have time to do something about this problem before it is too late.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves.

Global warming has already triggered a sea level rise that could reach from 6 metres (19.69 ft) to 25 metres (27.34 yards).

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

It's important to understand differences in scale and environment.

Climate change is for real. We have just a small window of opportunity and it is closing rather rapidly. There is not a moment to lose.

Real change will only happen when we fall in love with our planet. Only love can show us how to live in harmony with nature and with each other and save us from the devastating effects of environmental destruction and climate change

We should have no concern for the environment, because, after the great flood with Noah, God promised that He would never ruin the earth again.