Quotes about Environment

She truly is a symbol of the resilience of nature—and a reminder of all that was lost on that terrible day twenty years ago.

Imagine—this gangly plant, which Darwin likened to a duckbill platypus of the vegetable kingdom, has survived as a species, unchanged, for 135 to 205 million years. Originally its habitat was lush, moist forest, yet it has now adapted to a very different environment—the harsh Namib Desert.

Our hubris needs to be downsized, thinking that profiteering on Earth, on whatever level - environmentally, economically, culturally - is unlimited and everybody should get as much as he wants or she wants. Humans need to be shrunk again to their actual size.

As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

Have you ever thought that the only ugl things in this Cove are man's fault, while the beautiful things are God's work? Look at those mountains.

Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky.

In our spiritual disintegration we may not be able to rule the earth, but we now have the power several times over to ruin it utterly.

An act of faith in the biblical tradition is always undertaken in an environment of knowledge and is inseparable from it.

"I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the einsteinconditions in which they can learn."

Why do the health of the body and the health of the earth decline together?

Our understandable wish to preserve the planet must somehow be reduced to the scale of our competence - that is to wish to preserve all of its humble house - holds and neighbourhoods.