Quotes about Environment
It is God's planet - and he's taking care of it. And I don't believe that anything we do will raise or lower the temperature one point.
— Jerry Falwell
It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and choking; inanimate London was a sooty spectre, divided in purpose between being visible and invisible, and so being wholly neither.
— Charles Dickens
You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after. The physical qualities of a planet are written into its economic and political record.
— Frank Herbert
The entire sweep of the Bible teaches that Christians in non-Christian environments are not to be worried so much about changing their environments as they are to remain faithful in whatever kind of environment they find themselves.
— Scot McKnight
Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!
— Elisabeth Elliot
Preaching the whole council of God involves man's environment and physical being as well as his soul. There is no doubt that the church is in danger of getting off the main track and getting lost.
— Billy Graham
We want them to see their home planet, Mrs. Whatsit said. The Medium lost the delighted smile she had worn till then. Oh, why must you make me look at unpleasant things when there are so many delightful ones to see? Again Mrs. Which's voice reverberated through the cave. There will no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something about the unpleasant ones.
— Madeleine L'Engle
God intends... our care of Creation to reflect our love for the Creator.
— John Stott
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
— Martin Luther
René Dubois, "Piensa globalmente, actúa localmente"
— Os Guinness
The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future.
— Desmond Tutu
Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.
— George W. Bush