Browsing Topic Best Environment Quotes

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Never mistake motion for action.

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

Forests are the lungs of our land.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

The world population 60 years ago was just over 2 billion and it’s now more than 6 billion. This huge increase – an explosion really – has probably done more harm to the environment than anything else.

One time, I threw a candy wrapper on the street. I was with a friend who said to me, You just littered on the street! Don’t you care about the environment? And I thought about it, and I said, You know what? This isn’t the environment. This is New York City. New York City is not the environment. New York City is a giant piece of litter. Next to Mexico City, it’s the shittiest piece of litter in the world. Just a pussy, runny, smokin’, stinkin’ piece of litter.

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn’t accessible.

No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

You know, if people are not pacifists, it’s not their fault. It’s because society puts them in that spot. You’ve got to change it. You don’t just change a man – you’ve got to change his environment as you do it.

As a human being, I’m concerned about the world that I live in. So, I’m concerned about peace. I’m concerned about man’s inhumanity to man. I’m concerned about the environment.

My best advice for someone considering adopting a pet is to take the time to really consider your lifestyle, home environment and personal preferences.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.

Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children with persons both older and younger than themselves.

It’s not a choice between our environment and our economy; it’s a choice between prosperity and decline.

Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission – to be of service to them whenever they require it.

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.

I’d like to talk to Sean Hannity in a controlled environment and say, ‘O.K., you can’t interrupt and jump up and down like a professional wrestler.’

Stockholders are used to a certain kind of global capitalism. This version is very hard on the environment and very hard on people below a certain fiscal level. It is a calculated, systematic weakening of people. Many labour, a few benefit. Try talking about cleaning up the place with these people. The hostility is incredible.

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.

No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to sink those sorts of knowledge which continue to be true regardless of changes in the environment, but we must maintain in an accessible place all those controls of behavior which must be modified for every instance. The economics of the system, in fact, pushes organisms toward sinking into the unconscious those generalities of relationship which remain permanently true and toward keeping within the conscious the pragmatic of particular instances.

Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.