Quotes about Environment

We can create as magnificent an environment as we like, but unless we change the heart it's all a waste of time.

There's more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

There's a difference between passively accepting every element of your environment (and thus missing opportunities to exploit) and being wise enough to leave the unchangeable alone, or at least work around it.

I myself am part of the weather and part of the climate and part of the place … It is certainly part of my life of prayer.

Glacial pace is actually an incorrect concept. The glaciers move a lot faster and they react a lot faster than people imagine.

We need to recognize the opportunity that green jobs present to Florida and to the economy.

We feel we have to put concrete on every inch of land. It disturbs the ecology, and it takes away the experience of a child going out into the woods and seeing all of nature.

Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!

Yet the Bible teaches that the local church is the natural environment for discipling. In fact, it teaches that the local church is itself the basic discipler of Christians. It does this through its weekly gatherings and its accountability structures (this chapter), as well as its elders and its members (next chapter). These in turn provide the context for the one-on-one discipling we have been considering so far.

Shall the world, then, be overrun by oysters?

We are given this beautiful life, this beautiful world, and we destroy it with ingratitude and hate.

When the compressor for the air conditioning in the house turns on, I feel apologetic. I had no idea how loud it was out here, clearly interrupting a whole valley full of creatures that are trying to say something to one another.