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.

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.

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

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

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

Forests are the lungs of our land.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.

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.

No matter what is the environment around you, it is always possible to maintain your brand of integrity

People love to be swept off their feet, to go into an environment where they’ve never been, to experience things they only dream about. And filmmaking offers that potential.

The teacher’s task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.

Music is pretty much in my blood and it’s definitely in my environment.

Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.

You want to create an environment where we’re fostering ideas, not rejecting them.

If your environment is not to your liking, change it!

I’m fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments.

With us the disguise must be complete. The familiar identity of things has to be pulverized in order to destroy the finite associations with which our society increasingly enshrouds every aspect of our environment.

One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.

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.