Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted. The whole continent was a garden, and from the beginning, it seemed to be favored above all the other wild parks and gardens of the globe.

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

It’s about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness – sonic goodies.

Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

More businesses should be following Apple’s stance in encouraging more investment in sustainability.

You’re not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

As you heat the planet up, it’s just like boiling a pot.

If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.

The true cost to the world of a burger is far greater than the money you hand over to buy it.

Environment is very important to me. Sometimes I have to perform during the day for festivals, and my music does not work in the daytime. It is nighttime music.

I adapt and I adjust to whatever environment I’m in.

I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it’s a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.

The environment is everything that isn’t me.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

I did this book ‚Harvest for Hope,‘ and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is that we have the guts not of a carnivore, but of an herbivore. Herbivore guts are very long because they have to get the last bit of nutrition out of leaves and things.

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

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

I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it’s possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it’s such an interesting part of their environment.

My production and songwriting and the environment around those vocals are not inspired by R&B at all.

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

If you’re in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Even if the economy crashes, we will still burn oil.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.

History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

I’ve grown accustomed to hotels and drastic climate change.