Environment Quotes - Page 6

• There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Peace, Heart

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• Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Life, Cutting, Hands

  Orison Swett Marden (1997). “Exceptional Employee”, p.129

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• It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

  Rene Dubos

  Men, Earth Day, Quality

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• Many organic practices simply make sense, regardless of what overall agricultural system is used. Far from being a quaint throwback to an earlier time, organic agriculture is proving to be a serious contender in modern farming and a more environmentally sustainable system over the long term.

  David Suzuki

  Agriculture, Practice, Long

  David Suzuki, David Taylor (2009). “The Big Picture: Reflections on Science, Humanity, and a Quickly Changing Planet”, p.184, Greystone Books

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• Our goal is not just an environment of clean air and water and scenic beauty. The objective is an environment of decency, quality and mutual respect for all other human beings and all other living creatures.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Air, Goal, Water

  "Earth Day at 40: Environmental movement has undergone significant change" by Steve Almasy, www.cnn.com. March 23, 2011.

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• A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

  Michael Pollan

  Grass, Lawns, Totalitarian Regimes

  Michael Pollan (2007). “Second Nature: A Gardener's Education”, p.48, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.

  Ian McHarg

  Men, Earth, Blind

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• Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake.... During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast.

  William Rathje

  Book, Cake, Phoenix

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• I believe it is important for people to create a healthy mental environment in which to accomplish daily tasks.

  Darren Johnson

  Believe, Health, Daily Tasks

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• [About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up. I got physically ill when I learned that ospreys and peregrine falcons weren't raising chicks because of what people were spraying on bugs at their farms and lawns. This was the first time I learned that humans could impact the environment with chemicals. [That a corporation would create a product that didn't operate as advertised] was shocking in a way we weren't inured to.

  Carl Safina

  Spring, Reading, Science

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• Civilization is in no immediate danger of running out of energy or even just out of oil. But we are running out of environment-that is, out of the capacity of the environment to absorb energy's impacts without risk of intolerable disruption-and our heavy dependence on oil in particular entails not only environmental but also economic and political liabilities.

  Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran

  Running, Science, Impact

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• We are the environment.

  Charles Panati

  Nature, Environmental

  Charles Panati (1976). “Supersenses, Our Potential for Parasensory Experience”

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• I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry.

  Frank Murkowski

  Believe, Healthy, Environmental

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

  Quentin Crisp

  Change, Art, Introvert

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• Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are simultaneous, there is no time or space separating events.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Space, Light, Information

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• Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.

  Rachel Carson

  Science, Sea, Environmental

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• I ran into the gigantic and gigantically wasteful lumbering of great Sequoias, many of whose trunks were so huge they had to be blown apart before they could be handled. I resented then, and I still resent, the practice of making vine stakes hardly bigger than walking sticks out of these greatest of living things.

  Gifford Pinchot

  Science, Practice, Walking Sticks

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• If having endured much, we at last asserted our 'right to know' and if, knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals, we should look around and see what other course is open to us.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Knowing, Our World

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• As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.

  Rachel Carson

  Men, Fabric Of Life, Earth Day

  Silent Spring ch. 17 (1962)

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• I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Country, Views, Government

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

  Jonas Salk

  Ecosystems, Environmental, Realizing

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

  George Eliot

  Motivational, Spiritual, Dog

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.226, 谷月社

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• I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

  Gale Norton

  Thinking, Needs, Today

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• Education, if it means anything, should not take people away from the land, but instill in them even more respect for it, because educated people are in a position to understand what is being lost. The future of the planet concerns all of us, and all of us should do what we can to protect it. As I told the foresters, and the women, you don't need a diploma to plant a tree.

  Wangari Maathai

  Mean, Land, People

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

  John James Audubon

  Nature, Children, Father

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