Our Environment Quotes - Page 14

• There are a helluva lot more of us who care about our environment in the world than we realize. We're the majority, and we can do something about that

  Woody Harrelson

  Positive Energy, Majority, Who Cares

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• Faith is indeed the energy of our whole universe directed to the highest form of being. Faith gives stability to our view of the universe. By faith we are convinced that our impressions of things without are not dreams or delusions, but, for us, true representations of our environment. By faith we are convinced that the signs of permanence, order, progress, which we observe in nature are true. By faith we are convinced that fellowship is possible with our fellow man and with God.

  Brooke Westcott

  Faith, Dream, Men

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• Ultimately it is by harnessing the natural economic forces which drive society that the pollution tax offers us an opportunity to exert greater control over our environment.

  Greg Hunt

  Opportunity, Environment, Economic

  "Five reasons Greg Hunt may not be the best minister in the world" by Michael Slezak, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2016.

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• Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it in the same way twice.

  Caroline Alexander

  Learning, Use, Patterns

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• The belief in a political Utopia is especially dangerous. This is possibly connected with the fact that the search for a better world, like the investigation of our environment, is (if I am correct) one of the oldest and most important of all the instincts.

  Karl Popper

  Political, Important, Facts

  Karl Popper (2012). “In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years”, p.28, Routledge

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• I find the parallels between how some investors refuse to recognise the trends and our reaction to some of our environmental challenges very powerful. There is an unwillingness to process unpleasant data.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Powerful, Data, Challenges

  "Jeremy Grantham on population growth, China and climate sceptics" by Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2013.

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• Playing God is actually the highest expression of human nature. The urges to improve ourselves, to master our environment, and to set our children on the best path possible have been the fundamental driving forces of all of human history. Without these urges to ‘play God’, the world as we know it wouldn’t exist today.

  Ramez Naam

  Children, Expression, Play

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• Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mean, Media, Environment

  "The Care and Feeding of Communication Innovation". Dinner Address to Conference on 8 mm Sound Film and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, November 8, 1961.

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• House passage is good news for the Northwest corner and our environment.

  Nancy Johnson

  House, News, Environment

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• A reduction in meat consumption is the most powerful single act that you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources.

  John Robbins

  Powerful, Meat Consumption, Vegetarian

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• The peoples of the Andes believe in the concept of 'living well' instead of wanting to 'live better' by consuming more, regardless of the cost to our neighbors and our environment.

  Evo Morales

  Believe, Cost, Environment

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• This fight against drilling in the Arctic Refuge is a fight about our principles. Its about standing up for our environment, our families and our future, and I wont give up this fight.

  John F. Kerry

  Giving Up, Future, Fighting

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• Even though it was January, in Los Angeles it was beautiful and sunny and the blue skies were out and it was hot everyday, so I think it was just a product of our environment. And California to me as a concept or as an idea always seems like endless optimism and endless opportunity - when people think of California they think of palm trees and blue skies and gorgeous sunsets and beaches and everything else. But there's also this weirdness to California, this darkness, it's a place where people come to follow their dreams and sometimes don't make it.

  Mark Hoppus

  Beautiful, Dream, Beach

  "Interview: Mark Hoppus On Blink-182's New Album, 'California'". Coup De Main Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 27, 2016.

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• We've had a century in which we've allowed some industries to basically pollute the air, pollute the water, pollute the ground, pollute the rivers, and we've been trying sporadically to clean air acts and ways of regulating them. But we now are sitting in a world that's filled with all sorts of materials that we don't really know the impact of. It's not like they're necessarily all poisonous but it's odd to put all these materials into our environment and watch.

  David Rosner

  Water, Trying, World

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• The most important thing for our species is, before it speaks, to listen to its environment. That has a higher priority in any species' survival. We need to be listening to our environment - in other words, restoring the quiet - not just to our natural areas, but also to towns like Portland, Maine.

  Gordon Hempton

  Priorities, Listening, Survival

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We begin to not be human, as we've known it, any longer. But to be just creative minds and action, whereas right now we're confused minds and actions, and our environment mirrors that back to us.

  Byron Katie

  Confused, Mirrors, Creative

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment.

  Herbie Hancock

  Diversity, Brotherhood, Environment

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• The decrease in incidents of death from cancer is largely attributable to new medicines or therapeutics. Perhaps a third is attributable to changing our environment, and that includes of course smoking which I believe accounted for probably 20 percent of deaths from, certainly from lung cancer, more than that from lung cancer, but from cancer overall.

  Laurie Glimcher

  Cancer, Believe, Medicine

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• Make fun of death. We are as dead as it gets, and we are fully aware of this joyous experience. We are with you every time you allow it. We are in every singing bird and in every joyful child. We are part of every delicious pulsing in your environment. We are not dead, and neither will you ever be! You will just get up, one day, and get out of the movie.

  Esther Hicks

  Children, Fun, Adversity

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• Humans are a great survivor species but our survival will be pretty grim if all of the plants and animals we depend on die out. That's why any human survival strategy has to include a plan to maintain our environment roughly in the state that it's in now.

  Annalee Newitz

  Animal, Survival, Survivor

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The fact that we have been able to perturb the carbon cycle with our industrial revolution is evidence of how vulnerable we are - because when we destroy our environments, we destroy our food and energy supplies. In short, we destroy ourselves.

  Annalee Newitz

  Carbon Cycle, Able, Revolution

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm a big fan of Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco's book Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, where they visit what they call The Sacrifice Zones of America and report on the current state of our environmental calamity.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Book, Sacrifice, America

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• There are two ways you can receive energy from your environment: One is molecules bumping against you. That's the air. The other is radiative energy. That's what you're feeling from the sun. When they say "Get out of the sun, out of the heat," the air is the same temperature; it's just you're exposed to sunlight.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Feelings, Energy, Environment

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The degradation of our environment is undeniably a direct result of our lack of regard, lack of accountability, and lack of responsibility.

  Nikki Reed

  Responsibility, Accountability, Degradation

  "19 VIPs Who Get Climate Change Better Than Congress" by Jacqueline Howard, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2015.

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• I think that we Americans, in particular, tend to think too directly about problems. If there's a problem we want to basically go in with a screwdriver or else drop bombs on it. A better way to solve problems is to think indirectly and try to change the environment. So I think you can gain much better self-control not so much by working on yourself as by looking at the situations you're in and the people you hang around, and changing your environment.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: bigthink.com

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