environment quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

What is a farm but a mute gospel?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we’re not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

The environment is everything that isn’t me.

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