Environment Quotes - Page 4

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

  Pope John Paul II

  Inspiring, Earth Day, Environmental

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• Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.

  Douglas Coupland

  Ecosystems, Body, Your Body

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.75, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have already learned from the river that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depths.

  Hermann Hesse

  Rivers, Depth, Taught

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.80, Om Books International

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• If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it.

  Amory Lovins

  Energy, Littles, Clean

  "Amory Lovins: Energy Analyst and Environmentalist". The Plowboy Interview, www.motherearthnews.com. November/December 1977.

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• Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

  Luther Burbank

  Nature, Flower, Sunshine

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• Our house is burning down and we are blind to it. The earth and humankind are in danger and we are all responsible. It is time to open our eyes. Alarms are sounding across all continents. We cannot say we did not know! Climate warming is still reversible. Heavy would be the responsibility of those who refuse to fight it.

  Jacques Chirac

  Eye, Responsibility, Fighting

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• Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Nature

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Works Of Art, Deals

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• Pollution should never be the price of prosperity.

  Al Gore

  Prosperity, Pollution, Climate Change

  "Bush, Gore Duel Over Energy Policy" by Carter M. Yang, abcnews.go.com.

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• One individual cannot possible make a difference, alone. It is individual efforts, collectively, that makes a noticeable difference - all the difference in the world!

  Jane Goodall

  Individual Effort, Differences, Making A Difference

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• The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.

  Paul Samuelson

  Hands, Survival, Elbows

  Paul Anthony Samuelson (1973). “The Samuelson sampler”

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• Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

  John Lubbock

  Education, Teacher, Nature

  "The Use of Life" by John Lubbock, (Ch. IV), 1894.

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• The earth has music for those who listen.

  George Santayana

  Music, Encouragement, Art

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  They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

  Andy Warhol

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Fun, Animal, Political

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• A good director creates an environment which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.

  Kevin Bacon

  Encouragement, Giving, Acting

  "Tim Robbins And Kevin Bacon Discuss Mystic River". Interview with Fred Topel, www.ign.com. October 10, 2013.

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• The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Nature, Thinking, Men

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• How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

  John Burroughs

  Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

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• Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?

  Neil Gaiman

  Dog, Fun, People

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• Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Teamwork, Men, Self

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.165, Vintage

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• Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

  Noam Chomsky

  Teacher, School, Opportunity

  Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.149, Pantheon

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• It is not the organs-that is, the character and form of the animal's bodily parts-that have given rise to its habits and particular structures. It is the habits and manner of life and the conditions in which its ancestors lived that have in the course of time fashioned its bodily form, its organs and qualities.

  Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

  Character, Animal, Quality

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• Instead of adjusting students to docile membership in whatever group they happen to be placed, we should equip them to cope with their environment, not be adjusted to it, to be willing to stand alone, if necessary, for what is right and true.

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  Science, Environmental, Groups

  Joel Henry Hildebrand (1963). “Is intelligence important?”

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• History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Science, Men, History

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.2, VM eBooks

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• In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Home, Science, Past

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.2, VM eBooks

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