Quotes about Environment

Our environment either inspires who we want to become or challenges us on what we must avoid.

Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.

I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society.

Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.

A love of nature keeps no factories busy.

Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy.

God, they will insist, is a spirit and is to be worshipped in spirit. Therefore an experience which is chemically conditioned cannot be an experience of the divine. But, in one way or another, all our experiences are chemically conditioned, and if we imagine that some of them are purely 'spiritual', purely 'intellectual', purely 'aesthetic', it is merely because we have never troubled to investigate the internal chemical environment at the moment of their occurrence.

Catch! calls the Once-ler. He lets something fall. It's a Truffula Seed. It's the last one of all! You're in charge of the last of the Truffula Seeds. And Truffula Trees are what everyone needs. Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air. Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack. Then the Lorax and all of his friends may come back.

I am the Lorax who speaks for the trees, which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please!

Where there's no progress, there's no growth. If there's no growth, there's no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Prayer cannot truly be taught by principles and seminars and symposiums. It has to be born out of a whole environment of felt need. If I say, "I ought to pray," I will soon run out of motivation and quit; the flesh is too strong. I have to be driven to pray.