Natural Environment Quotes - Page 5

• In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.

  Barry Commoner

  Running, Risk, Environmental

  Barry Commoner (2014). “The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology”, p.122, Knopf

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• Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point

  Abigail Adams

  Beautiful, Nature, Wind

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.212

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• I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Love Is, Environment

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• If you look into the way that materials are used in an ecological system you'll notice that you'll find that there is no waste. The waste of one organism becomes food for another and everything's recycled in an ecological system whereas in our human built environment there's a throughput system. We use something then we throw it away... We have to imitate nature and try to re-use everything we make as human beings or recycle them - when we cannot re-use or recycle them we should try to reintegrate them back into the natural environment.

  Ken Yeang

  Trying, Looks, Use

  "Q&A: Ken Yeang interview". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 20, 2007.

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• I feel that we should not only maintain gentle, peaceful relations with our fellow human beings bur also that is very important to extend the same kind of attitude toward the natural environment.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Peaceful, Important

  Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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• I therefore suggested that WWF should invite leaders from the major religions to meet together to discuss what - if any - responsibility they felt they had for the natural environment as a "sacred" entity.

  Prince Philip

  Responsibility, Leader, What If

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• A pleasant natural environment is a good - a luxury good, philosophical good, a moral goody-good, a good time for all. Whatever, we want it. If we want something, we should pay for it, with our labor or our cash. We shouldn't beg it, steal it, sit around wishing for it, or euchre the government into taking it by force.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Philosophical, Government, Want Something

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.204, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the wellbeing of the world's people enhanced - not just in this generation but in succeeding generations - we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.

  Gordon Brown

  Future, People, Vision

  Gordon Brown's speech to foreign finance and environment ministers on climate change, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2005.

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• Shallow ecology is anthropocentric, or human-centred. It views humans as above or outside nature, as the source of all value, and ascribes only instrumental, or 'use', value to nature. Deep ecology does not separate humans - or anything else - from the natural environment. It does see the world not as a collection of isolated objects but as a network of phenomena that are fundamentally interconnected and interdependent. Deep ecology recognizes the intrinsic value of all human beings and views humans as just one particular strand in the web of life.

  Fritjof Capra

  Views, Web Of Life, Doe

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• The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a second life waiting, suffering can be endured - especially in other people. The natural environment can be used up. Enemies of the faith can be savaged and suicidal martyrdom praised.

  E. O. Wilson

  Suicidal, People, Waiting

  "Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge". Book by E. O. Wilson, 1998.

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• The focus of environmental ethics should indeed be on the virtues and how these inform our relationship to natural environments.

  David E. Cooper

  Focus, Environmental, Ethics

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The natural environment is not particularly hospitable to human life ... the key to having a good environment is improving it through work... . Energy is fundamentally an environmental improver and if we classify it that way it makes sense out of a lot of these controversies... . It's our obligation and our right to make [our environment] as good for human beings as possible. With that view, it's very easy for people to understand precisely the reason it's good to alter it - because it doesn't naturally come the way we need it to be.

  Alex Epstein

  Keys, Views, People

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• Well, we now have such a photograph... Has any new idea been let loose? It certainly has. You will have noticed how suddenly everybody has become seriously concerned to protect the natural environment... It seems to me more than a coincidence that this awareness should have happened at exactly the moment man took his first step into space.

  Fred Hoyle

  Men, Should Have, Ideas

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• The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment is so much more sensitive and interactive and less tolerant of irresponsibility than it is on the whole surface of the Earth. We are going to learn how to relate to the Earth and our own natural environment here by looking seriously at space colony ecologies.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Future, Space, Earth

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• Environmental history was . . . born out of a moral purpose, with strong political commitments behind it, but also became, as it matured, a scholarly enterprise that had neither any simple, nor any single, moral or political agenda to promote. Its principal goal became one of deepening our understanding of how humans have been affected by their natural environment through time and, conversely, how they have affected that environment and with what results.

  Donald Worster

  Strong, Commitment, Simple

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• We are living as if we had three planets' worth of resources to live with rather than just one. We need to cut by about two-thirds our ecological footprint. For that we need one planet farming as well as one planet living - one planet farming which minimises the impact on the environment of food production and consumption, and which maximises its contribution to renewal of the natural environment

  David Miliband

  Cutting, Impact, Two

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• It's common knowledge that in the entertainment industry there's a lot of craziness that goes down, and it's really hard for anyone to stay sane. It's not a very natural environment to be in for too long. It's not very healthy.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Long, Healthy, Down And

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The ecologist has a much more comprehensive and holistic view of the world. We're looking at the natural environment as well as the human built environment and the connectivity between the two - how do the natural environment and the human-built environment interact and interface with each other.

  Ken Yeang

  Nature, Views, Two

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• As each tree falls so does the earth's ability to heal itself and to adapt to the effects of our changing climate

  Hilary Benn

  Nature, Fall, Heal Itself

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• For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

  John Dryden

  Art, Nature, Missing

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.194

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• I thrive on production. It feels very much like a natural environment for me.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Environment, Natural, Thrive

  Kathryn Bigelow, Peter Keough (2013). “Kathryn Bigelow: Interviews”, p.160, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Autumn, Giving

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.165

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• Without the land, the rivers, the oceans, the forests, the sunshine, the minerals and thousands of natural resources we would have no economy whatsoever

  Satish Kumar

  Nature, Ocean, Sunshine

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• Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world

  Satish Kumar

  Nature, Mean, Knowing

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• In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the palpable site, or matrix wherein meaning occurs and proliferates. In the absence of writing, we find ourselves situated in the field of discourse as we are embedded in the natural landscape; indeed, the two matrices are not separable. We can no more stabilize the language and render its meanings determinate than we can freeze all motion and metamorphosis within the land.

  David Abram

  Writing, Land, Two

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