Quotes about Environment

The Forest and water problems are perhaps the most vital internal problems of the United States.

When I hear of the destruction of a species ... I just feel as if all the the works of some great writer had perished.

I heard that after you throw away a 'New York Times,' it takes over a hundred years for the lies to biodegrade.

For in every case man retains the freedom and the possibility of deciding for or against the influence of his surroundings.

Is there no spiritual freedom in regard to behavior and reaction to any given surroundings? Is that theory true which would have us believe that man is no more than a product of many conditional and environmental factors—be they of a biological, psychological or sociological nature?

We have destroyed something by our presence, a world perhaps.

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.

Turn off the tap when brushing your teeth.

You're never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour.

My third day playing saxophone, I was in front of a congregation. I still didn't know the names of all the notes. I was playing by ear, following along, but it was such an encouraging environment, I couldn't fail. It was all, 'Yeah baby, you sound real good' no matter what you play. It was a great way to learn.

I wanted to hear sounds of everyday objects - even musical instruments - as things.

My actions are ruled by appetite, passion, prejudice, greed, love, fear, environment, habit, and the worst of these tyrants is habit. Therefore, if I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits. My bad habits must be destroyed and new furrows prepared for good seed.