Environmental Quotes - Page 6

• Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.

  Jonas Salk

  Ecosystems, Realizing, Ifs

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• In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.

  Olympia Snowe

  Thinking, Friendly, World

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• Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Air, Aquariums

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  Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Compassion, Bird, Trouble

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• Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Friendship, Nature

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.

  Donella Meadows

  Stupid, Atmosphere, May

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• Surveying the available alternative energy sources for criteria such as energy density, environmental impacts, reliance on depleting raw materials, intermittency versus constancy of supply, and the percentage of energy returned on the energy invested in energy production, none currently appears capable of perpetuating this kind of society.

  Richard Heinberg

  Oil, Impact, Energy

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• We must not put pressure on people, but by providing information on the population and the environment, and appropriate contraception for everyone (and by their own example), doctors should help bring family size into the arena of environmental ethics, analogous to avoiding patio heaters and high carbon cars.

  John Guillebaud

  Doctors, People, Car

  "Limit families to two children 'to combat climate change'". www.telegraph.co.uk. July 24, 2008.

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• To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Nature, Mean, Science

  Terry Tempest Williams (2008). “Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert”, p.75, Vintage

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• We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Change, Presidential

  Bettina Stiekel, Jimmy Carter, Various (2003). “The Nobel Book of Answers: The Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Shimon Peres, and Other Nobel Prize Winners Answer Some of Life's Most Intriguing Questions for Young People”, Simon and Schuster

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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 with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Reality, Rivers, People

  Henry Van Dyke (2015). “Little Rivers”, p.16, eKitap Projesi

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• Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

  Harrison Ford

  Hollywood, Environment, Particular

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• Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

  Margaret Fuller

  Nature, Rivers, Exception To The Rule

  Margaret Fuller, Margaret F. Ossoli (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.122, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A lot of fun stuff happens when you go out on a bike compared to when you're in a car. You're more in the environment. It's enjoyable. Even when It's raining It's still fun.

  Stone Gossard

  Fun, Rain, Car

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• We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

  Lee Iacocca

  Funny, Stupid, Ignorance

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• There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Life, Dog, Men

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• Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Rivers, Earth Day

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• A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

  Beverly Sills

  Art, Perception, Culture

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• One planet, one experiment.

  E. O. Wilson

  Future, Vision, Planets

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• One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

  Aldo Leopold

  Rivers, World, Conservation

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.119, Oxford University Press

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• Biology is a science of three dimensions. The first is the study of each species across all levels of biological organization, molecule to cell to organism to population to ecosystem. The second dimension is the diversity of all species in the biosphere. The third dimension is the history of each species in turn, comprising both its genetic evolution and the environmental change that drove the evolution. Biology, by growing in all three dimensions, is progressing toward unification and will continue to do so.

  E. O. Wilson

  Science, Ecosystems, Organization

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• Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of bird populations over time lead inevitably to environmental awareness and can signal impending changes.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Change, Science, Bird

  Roger Tory Peterson (2012). “Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Pennsylvania”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.

  Clive Anderson

  Tree, Levels, Global Warming

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