Environment Quotes - Page 5

• They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

  James G. Watt

  Tree, Environmental, Forests

  "Weinberger and the press: point, counterpoint" by Richard Halloran, www.nytimes.com. 1982.

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• Our goal is not just an environment of clean air and water and scenic beauty. The objective is an environment of decency, quality and mutual respect for all other human beings and all other living creatures.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Air, Goal, Water

  "Earth Day at 40: Environmental movement has undergone significant change" by Steve Almasy, www.cnn.com. March 23, 2011.

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• You've got to be fairly solemn [about the environment]. I mean the mere notion that there are three times as many people on Earth as there were when I started making television. How can the Earth accommodate them? When people, including politicians, set their faces against looking at the consequences-it's just unbelievable that anyone could ignore it.

  David Attenborough

  Mean, Science, People

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• I believe it is important for people to create a healthy mental environment in which to accomplish daily tasks.

  Darren Johnson

  Believe, Health, Daily Tasks

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• Civilization is in no immediate danger of running out of energy or even just out of oil. But we are running out of environment-that is, out of the capacity of the environment to absorb energy's impacts without risk of intolerable disruption-and our heavy dependence on oil in particular entails not only environmental but also economic and political liabilities.

  Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran

  Running, Science, Impact

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• For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Science, Race, Environmental

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.5, VM eBooks

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• It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

  Rene Dubos

  Men, Earth Day, Quality

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• I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry.

  Frank Murkowski

  Believe, Healthy, Environmental

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• If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

  Jacques Barzun

  Future, Civilization, Vision

  Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

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• No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Knowledge, Science, Animal

  Ellsworth Huntington (1920). “The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America”, p.58, Library of Alexandria

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• Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful.

  Jane Goodall

  Home, Successful, Way

  "The Discover Interview: Jane Goodall". Interview with Virginia Morell, discovermagazine.com. March 28, 2007.

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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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• 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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• Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Life, Cutting, Hands

  Orison Swett Marden (1997). “Exceptional Employee”, p.129

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• A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

  Michael Pollan

  Grass, Lawns, Totalitarian Regimes

  Michael Pollan (2007). “Second Nature: A Gardener's Education”, p.48, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Disease may be defined as "A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment."

  William Thomas Councilman

  Science, Environmental, May

  William Thomas Councilman (1913). “Disease and its causes”

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• Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price

  Ansel Adams

  Nature, Environmental, Conservation

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• Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Environmental, Development

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.

  Ronald Reagan

  Science, House, Bird

  Ronald Reagan, Bill Adler (1981). “The Reagan wit”, Jameson Books

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• Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake.... During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast.

  William Rathje

  Book, Cake, Phoenix

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• Good questions outrank easy answers.

  Paul Samuelson

  Nature, Asking Questions, Environmental

  Paul Anthony Samuelson (1986). “Coll Sci Pap V5”, p.561, MIT Press

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• We find that one of the most rewarding features of being scientists these days ... is the common bond which the search for truth provides to scholars of many tongues and many heritages. In the long run, that spirit will inevitably have a constructive effect on the benefits which man can derive from knowledge of himself and his environment.

  Stanford Moore

  Running, Knowledge, Science

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• Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!

  Paul MacCready

  Grandchildren, Environmental, Society

  "Paul MacCready Interview: Toward A Rational Use of Energy". Interview With Richard Freudenberger, www.motherearthnews.com. September/October 1981.

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• Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat-glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning?

  Frank N. Ikard

  Morning, Children, Animal

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• [About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up. I got physically ill when I learned that ospreys and peregrine falcons weren't raising chicks because of what people were spraying on bugs at their farms and lawns. This was the first time I learned that humans could impact the environment with chemicals. [That a corporation would create a product that didn't operate as advertised] was shocking in a way we weren't inured to.

  Carl Safina

  Spring, Reading, Science

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