Our Environment Quotes - Page 10

• If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it's going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under control. But it's also going to be very hard to live the rounded and joyful lives that could be ours. This is a subversive volume in all the best ways!

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Growth, Environmental

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• Wars results in immediate deaths and destruction, but the environmental consequences can last hundreds, often thousands of years. And it is not just war itself that undermines our life support system, but also the research and development, military exercises and general preparations for battle that are carried out on a daily basis in most parts of the world. The majority of this pre-war activity takes place without the benefit of civilian scrutiny and therefore we are unaware of some of what is being done to our environment in the name of 'security.

  Rosalie Bertell

  Military, War, Exercise

  Rosalie Bertell (2001). “Planet Earth: The Latest Weapon of War”, p.2, Black Rose Books Ltd.

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• Nature has a drive for wholeness and has created us only in relationship like one giant superorganism. It's a fact there is a connection between atoms and all of us in relationship with each other and with our environment. In all of our societal relationships there is a bond so profound and intricate that it's impossible to say where one thing stops and another thing begins. So you see this mirrored in every aspect, from the subatomic world to the world that we're more familiar with. So competition ends up being a false creation in our society.

  Lynne McTaggart

  Profound, Competition, World

  Lotus Guide Interview, lotusguide.com. May 20, 2012.

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• As an artist, you take things from your environment, and there's going to be a style coming out of your environment.

  Jack White

  Artist, Style, Environment

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I believe we have a profound fundamental need for areas of the earth where we stand without our mechanisms that make us immediate masters over our environment.

  Howard Zahniser

  Believe, Profound, Needs

  Howard Zahniser, Ed Zahniser, George D. Davis, Paul Schaefer, Douglas W. Scott (1992). “Where Wilderness Preservation Began: Adirondack Writings of Howard Zahniser”, North Country Books Incorporated

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• Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots we become part of the unity of our environments.

  Yayoi Kusama

  Unity, Body, Dots

  "Yayoi Kusama’s ‘Infinite Obsession’ Heads To Brazil" By Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2013.

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• We don’t go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object - we don’t think about the relations that that object embodies - and were important to the production of that object whether it’s our food or our clothes or our I-pads or all the materials we use to acquire an education at an institution like this. That would really be revolutionary to develop a habit of imagining the human relations and non human relations behind all of the objects that constitute our environment.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Ipads, Clothes

  "Grace Lee Boggs in Conversation with Angela Davis". www.radioproject.org. February 20, 2012.

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• We're all products of our environment. The key is not to fall.

  Lamar Odom

  Fall, Keys, Environment

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• I strongly believe as a mother, as does my husband, that there are certain contributing factors that lead to autism and some of it is very much the chemicals in our environment and in our food.

  Kelly Preston

  Mother, Husband, Believe

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• We are the environment. The world is literally one biological process. The trees are our lungs. Look at the Amazon River system next to a human cardiovascular system, look at corals or trees and look at our lungs, you literally cannot tell the difference. They’re the same. So when we destroy our environment, we’re effectively destroying ourselves.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Rivers, Differences, Tree

  FaceBook post by Ian Somerhalder from Dec 26, 2012

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• The outer world, with all its phenomena, is filled with divine splendour, but we must have experienced the divine within ourselves, before we can discover it in our environment

  Rudolf Steiner

  World, Environment, Divine

  Rudolf Steiner (1937). “Knowledge of the higher worlds and its attainment”

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• The UFOs do not seem to exist as tangible, manufactured objects. They do not conform to the accepted natural laws of our environment. They seem to be nothing more than transmogrifications tailoring themselves to our ability to understand. The thousands of contacts with the entities indicates that they are liars and put-on artists, the UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon.

  John A. Keel

  Liars, Artist, Law

  John A. Keel (1970). “UFO's: Operation Trojan Horse”

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• People blame their environment, their education, their opportunities, their luck, for their condition. They are wrong. There is one person to blame — and only one — THEMSELVES.

  Robert Collier

  People, Environmental, Blame

  "Be Rich".

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• As long as you don't compliment yourself, your environments and your job, you will always be miserable. Complaints bring misery, compliments brings strength.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Spiritual, Jobs, Long

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• We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Science, Rivers, Environmental

  Attributed in A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations, ed. Barbara K. Rodes and Rice Odell (1992)

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• The Truly Healthy environment is not merely safe but stimulating.

  William H. Stewart

  Health, Science, Safe Environment

  Environmental Science and Technology, February 1968.

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• I'm not sure what solutions we'll find to deal with all our environmental problems, but I'm sure of this: They will be provided by industry; they will be products of technology. Where else can they come from?

  George M. Keller

  Technology, Environmental, Problem

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• I also learned that you are affected by your environment, even if you try not to be. Color, light that is, matters because you want to do justice to it and also you get excited by it.

  Peter Doig

  Light, Color, Justice

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• Become one with eternity.
  Become part of your environment.
  Take off your clothes.
  Forget yourself. Make love.
  Self-destruction is the only
  way to peace.

  Yayoi Kusama

  Self, Clothes, Making Love

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• We all have an interest, and a duty to future generations, to ensure that the benefits of mobility that we now take for granted, do not place an intolerable burden on our environment

  Elliot Morley

  Future, Vision, Generations

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• Leadership has to be focused on some very radical ideas that only we as 21st Century people can talk about: making sure people have a livelihood, making sure people receive a living wage, making sure the environment, the Mother Earth, is embraced and cherished and not destroyed. Making sure people are healthy in what they eat, making sure we hold people and corporations accountable for the damage they do not only to our environment but to our institutions.

  Danny Glover

  Mother, Health, Ideas

  Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.

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• But I think it’s important to discuss just how easy it is for any of us to get caught up in things that might seem unthinkable—to get sucked into the wrong environment and make moral compromises that can tarnish us terribly. We like to think that we change our environment, but the truth is that it changes us. So we have to be extraordinarily careful to choose the right environment—to work with, and even socialize with, the right people. Ideally, we should stick close to people who are better than us so that we can become more like them.

  Guy Spier

  Thinking, People, Important

  Guy Spier (2014). “The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment”, p.20, Palgrave Macmillan

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• I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.

  Jay Inslee

  Real, Air, Years

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• Conservation of energy also protects our environment.

  Lamar S. Smith

  Energy, Environment, Conservation

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• Sustainability at Nike means being laser-focused on evolving our business model to deliver profitable growth while leveraging the efficiencies of lean manufacturing, minimizing our environmental impact and using the tools available to us to bring about positive change across our entire supply chain.

  Mark Parker

  Nike, Mean, Impact

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