Our Environment Quotes - Page 12

• The masters say if you create an auspicious condition in your body and your environment then meditation and realization will automatically arise.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Meditation, Realization, Body

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• Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

  Henrik Tikkanen

  Time, Future, Kids

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• We owe our lives to the sun... How is it, then, that we feel no gratitude?

  Lewis Thomas

  Life, Gratitude, Earth Day

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• Butterflies may be better indicators of the health of our environment than birds.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Health, Butterfly, Science

  George H. Harrison, Roger Tory Peterson (1976). “Roger Tory Peterson's Dozen Birding Hot Spots”, Simon & Schuster

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• The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually brought into conformity with the facts by the painful process of selection,-for intuition runs equally into truth and into error, and can settle nothing if not controlled by experience,-we gain vastly in our command over our environment. This is the fundamental value of natural science

  George Santayana

  Running, Science, Errors

  George Santayana (2004). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.22, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.

  Pope John Paul II

  Inspiring, Earth Day, Environmental

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• If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

  Jacques Barzun

  Future, Civilization, Vision

  Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

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• Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!

  Paul MacCready

  Grandchildren, Environmental, Society

  "Paul MacCready Interview: Toward A Rational Use of Energy". Interview With Richard Freudenberger, www.motherearthnews.com. September/October 1981.

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• Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Nature, Laughter

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• I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Running, Nature, Hydrogen Fuel

  "Uncommon Friends : Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh". Book by James Newton, 1987.

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• The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally.

  Dalai Lama

  Nature, Environmental, Natural

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• When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Saving The Earth, Mother Earth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1913). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

  Dennis Gabor

  Men, Earth Day, Conservation

  1964 Inventing the Future.

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• Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life.

  George Santayana

  Beauty, Environment, Harmony

  George Santayana (2004). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Don't let your character change color with your environment. Find out who you are and let it stay it's true color.

  Rachel Scott

  Life, Character, Color

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.

  Orson Scott Card

  Stupid, Way, Causes

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.255, Macmillan

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• I really feel like civilisation's already over. It's not ending but it's already done. We're all addicted to the concept that humanity equals civilisation and that's not the case. We need a global conversation to be able to decipher how we can live from this point forward. We have to redefine our relationship with our environment.

  Serj Tankian

  Humanity, Needs, Done

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• A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and his feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.

  Albert Einstein

  Nature, Compassion, Animal

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.339, Princeton University Press

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• As we work to expand our supplies of energy, we should also recognize that we must balance those efforts with our concern to preserve our environment. In the past, as we have sought new energy sources, we have too often damaged or despoiled our land.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Past, Land, Effort

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.102, Best Books on

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• We don't understand the power of nature and the world because we don't live with it. Our environment is designed to sustain us. We are the domestic pets of a human zoo called civilization.

  Laurence Gonzales

  Zoos, Civilization, Pet

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• The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced.

  Henry W. Kendall

  Growth, Population, World

  Henry W. Kendall (2013). “A Distant Light: Scientists and Public Policy”, p.232, Springer

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• I don't know the science behind climate change. I can't say one way or another what is the direct impact, whether it's man-made or not. I've heard arguments from both sides, but I do believe in protecting our environment, but without the job killing regulations that are coming out of the Environmental Protection Agency.

  Joni Ernst

  Jobs, Believe, Men

  "Braley, Ernst tear into each other" by James Hohmann, www.politico.com. August 28, 2014.

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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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• It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do

  Duncan Sheik

  Influence, Environment, Inevitable

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• You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mother, Earth, Environment

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