Quotes about Environment

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.

On climate change, we have only a handful of years to make massive changes, according to the scientists. The politicians have to act, and only the people can make them, because Royal Dutch Shell's not going to do it.

The House of Marley started with the concept of working together for a better world.

There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.

Our Earth is talking to us, and we must listen to it and decipher its message if we want to survive.