Environmental Quotes - Page 5

• 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.

  David Foreman

  Cancer, Brain, Problem

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• I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.

  Luther Burbank

  Grandchildren, Blessing, Intelligent

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• When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Peace, Nature

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• We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Future, People, Vision

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• A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.

  Donella Meadows

  President, Climate, World

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• Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

  David Gerrold

  Mean Girls, Law, Understanding

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• But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Gratitude, Nature, Patriotic

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States".

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

  Ansel Adams

  Nature, Fighting, Government

  "Playboy Interview: Ansel Adams". Interview with David Sheff, Playboy (p. 226), May 1, 1983.

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• Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals that propel life.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Life, Character, Science

  Bruce H. Lipton (2015). “The Biology of Belief 10th Anniversary Edition: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles”, p.12, Hay House, Inc

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• In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

  Aristotle

  Life, Nature, Philosophical

  "Parts of Animals". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 645a.16,

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  They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

  Sitting Bull

  Mother, Native American, Use

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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• We must return to nature and nature's god.

  Luther Burbank

  Nature, Return, Comeback

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• Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

  Al Gore

  Our World, Imagination, Challenges

  "Congress Holds Global Warming Hearings". "Day to Day" with Madeleine Brand, www.npr.org. March 21, 2007.

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• People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

  Michael Pollan

  Issues, People, Slow Food

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• Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Radical, Mankind, Species

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

  Frank Murkowski

  Believe, Healthy, Sustainability

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• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Dec 25, 2011

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• And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.58, Lulu.com

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  The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

  Marya Mannes

  Revenge, Abuse, Green Trees

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Rain, Cycle Of Life, Water Of Life

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• Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.

  Rachel Carson

  Change, Nature, Men

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.

  William Hague

  Believe, Commitment, Growth

  "William Hague tells ministers to help green industries boost economy" by Juliette Jowit, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2012.

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• The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

  Barry Commoner

  War, Years, World

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

  Dennis Weaver

  Strong, Sacrifice, Healthy

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• The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

  Carl Sagan

  Ambition, Science, Perfect

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.230, Ballantine Books

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