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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

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

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

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

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.

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

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

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.

It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

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

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

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.

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.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

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.

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.

What is a farm but a mute gospel?

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

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.

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.

The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism and the injection of working at the Carter Center, and in international affairs, and to some degree, domestic affairs, on energy conservation, on environment, and things of that kind.

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.

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

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

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