Environment Quotes - Page 14

• We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

  Chief Seattle

  Motivational, Wisdom, Peace

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• The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Wise, Native American, Heart

  Luther Standing Bear (1978). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.197, U of Nebraska Press

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• The Superfund legislation set up a system of insurance premiums collected from the chemical industry to clean up toxic wastes. This new program may prove to be as far-reaching and important as any accomplishment of my administration. The reduction of the threat to America's health and safety from thousands of toxic-waste sites will continue to be an urgent but bitterly fought issue-another example for the conflict between the public welfare and the profits of a few private despoilers of our nation's environment.

  Jimmy Carter

  Health, Science, Toxic Waste

  Jimmy Carter (2013). “Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President”, p.591, University of Arkansas Press

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• With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

  Bruce Greenwood

  Drama, Promise, Friction

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• True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.

  Seneca the Younger

  Nature, Law, Environmental

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

  Gregory Bateson

  Nature, Thinking, Differences

  "Business needs to learn to see separate challenges as part of the whole" by Giles Hutchins, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Man is a child of his environment

  Shinichi Suzuki

  Children, Men, Environmental

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• We must reach out to villages even in scorching heat with temperature upto 44 C. We must ensure that no girl child remains illiterate. I request all the social institutions and the media world to create a joyous environment for education in the month of June (when schools re-open), an environment to encourage children to go to school. We will derive the satisfaction of having done a social good.

  Narendra Modi

  Girl, Education, Children

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• We subsidize the disposal of waste in all its myriad forms — from landfills, to Superfund cleanups, to deep-well injection, to storage of nuclear waste. In the process, we encourage an economy where 80 percent of what we consume gets thrown away after one use.

  Paul Hawken

  Nuclear, Use, Waste

  "Natural Capitalism". www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.

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• My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Lying, Intuition, Important

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• We are monumentally distracted by a pervasive technological culture that appears to have a life of its own, one that insists on our full attention, continually seducing us and pulling us away from the opportunity to experience directly the true meaning of our own lives.

  Al Gore

  Opportunity, Culture, Attention

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.241, Routledge

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• Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population growth, to the dirt, pollution and noise of a New York or Tokyo. And that is the tragedy. It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

  Rene Dubos

  New York, Technology, Men

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• We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops.

  Paul Brooks

  Life, Attitude, Law

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• There is a spiritual side to our connection with the planet. And in this material world, that's anathema. It is somewhat worrying. What I say.. it makes life. It gives us fulfilment. It makes us whole human beings. And without it, we make mistakes. And, boy, are the leaders of the world making mistakes at the moment.

  Bob Brown

  Life, Spiritual, Mistake

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• You may never see a Rembrandt or the Sistine Chapel, but aren't you glad as a human being they are still there? Probably the only thing that separates us from other creatures is that we aren't limited by our basic needs, like food and water; we have this sense of the whole.

  George N. Atiyeh

  Water, Needs, May

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• We made a sacred covenant to follow the Creator's life plan at all times, which includes the responsibility of taking care of this land and life for His divine purpose. We have never made treaties with any foreign nation, including the United States, but for many centuries we have honored this Sacred Agreement. Our goals are not to gain political control, monetary wealth nor military power, but rather to pray and to promote the welfare of all living beings and to preserve the world in a natural way.

  Thomas Banyacya

  Military, Responsibility, Land

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• We Floridians have always assumed an arrogant mastery over our natural environment. And we have always presumed ourselves capable of obliging the water that is all around us to behave itself.

  Ronald Cunningham

  Water, Mastery, Arrogant

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• It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.

  Jane Goodall

  Would Be, Generations, Useless

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• Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.

  Charles Kuralt

  Running, Rivers, People

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• A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans.

  Aldo Leopold

  Rivers, Broken, Sun

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• The moods of a river change from hour to hour and day to day. It can be still and serene as a glassy mirror, reflecting the clouds that pass over it and the trees on its banks. Or, when a light breeze springs up, the surface of the river may be broken into little diamond lights reflecting the distant sun.

  Ernie Lyons

  Spring, Rivers, Clouds

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• What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech, the most comforting speech in the world, the talk that rain makes by itself all over the ridges, and the talk of the watercourses everywhere in the hollows! Nobody started it, nobody is going to stop it. It will talk as long as it wants this rain. As long as it talks I am going to listen.

  Thomas Merton

  Rain, Night, Long

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• Our precious heritage of natural and unspoiled beauty and unpolluted streams, once exhausted and destroyed, can never be replaced.

  Alvin O'Konski

  Heritage, Exhausted, Natural

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• When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money.

  Alanis Obomsawin

  Money, Nature, Food

  "Who is the Chairman of This Meeting? : A Collection of Essays". Book by Ralph Osborne (p. 43), "Conversations with North American Indians" by Ted Poole, 1972.

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• We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.

  Arthur Boyd

  People, Paradise, Messages

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