Natural Environment Quotes - Page 7

• When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice.

  Helena Christensen

  Play, Voice, Use

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Growing up in Northern Ontario provided me with a strong affinity for the natural environment that was so eloquently responded to by Tom Thomson and his colleagues. The concept of this painting grew out of a number of forays into Algonquin over the years. From its conception I intended Algonquin to be a subtle tribute to Tom Thomson. But I also wanted it to be a response to the natural beauty that so typifies the grandeur of Ontario’s first provincial park.

  Ken Danby

  Strong, Growing Up, Numbers

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• Humanity is looking for a new story. The one it has embraced since the Renaissance is no longer viable. Despite all of its positive contributions to modern life, three hundred years of scientific-technological development has left our civilization in an untenable position-at odds with its natural environment and ultimately its own deeper, collective, soul. Only a global shift in fundamental perceptions, values, and corresponding actions will allow human-kind to resume an evolutionary pat in alignment with nature and the larger cosmos.

  Edmund Bourne

  Years, Civilization, Technological Development

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• An ecovillage is a human scale, full-featured settlement which integrates human activities harmlessly into the natural environment, supports healthy development and can be continued into the indefinite future.

  Robert Gilman

  Support, Healthy, Development

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• Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements of plutocracy, oligarchy, and mounting theocracy that rule our state? How do we address the self-inflicted catastrophes that devastated our natural environment? So large is our malaise that no single writer can encompass it. We have no Emerson or Whitman among us. An institutionalized counterculture condemns individuality as archaic and depreciates intellectual values, even in the universities. (The Anatomy of Influence)

  Harold Bloom

  Dark, Past, Counter Culture

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• If it's unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature

  Mollie Beattie

  Nature, Environment, Conservation

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• We all, parents, educators, community leaders, and every... citizen, need to come together to find new ways to engage children with the natural environment.

  Laura Bush

  Nature, Children, Community

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• A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

  Anne Bronte

  Nature, Sunshine, Light

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.139, Diversion Books

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• I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

  Alan Hovhaness

  Nature, Travel, Religion

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• I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.

  E. O. Wilson

  Land, Mind, Vanishing

  "EO Wilson: Our Greatest Biologist Writes A Novel, ‘Anthill’". Interview with Steve Ross, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2010.

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• There can be no doubt ... of our dependence upon forces beyond our control. Primitive man was so impotent in the face of these forces that g , especially in an unfavorable natural environment, fear became a dominant attitude, and, as the old saying goes, fear created gods.

  John Dewey

  Attitude, Men, Primitive Man

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• If we and the rest of the back-boned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if the invertebrates were to disappear, the world's ecosystems would collapse

  David Attenborough

  Nature, Animal, Ecosystems

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• We have lost sight of the dependence we have on nature in economics

  Tony Juniper

  Nature, Sight, Environment

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• Nature is our biggest ally in poverty reduction and achieving human welfare

  Tony Juniper

  Nature, Poverty Reduction, Allies

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• An agricultural landscape produces food but it also provides water, requires biodiversity to underpin soil function, pollination and other useful services, and also has value to society in terms of aesthetics and recreation

  Tim Benton

  Nature, Water, Landscape

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• Rather than think about fields producing food, and the rest of the land producing everything else, we need to think about managing integrated, multifunctional, landscapes

  Tim Benton

  Nature, Thinking, Land

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• From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going

  Tony Juniper

  Nature, Chinese, Bees

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• From the recycling miracles in the soil; an army of predators ridding us of unwanted pests; an abundance of life creating a genetic codebook that underpins our food, pharmaceutical industries and much more, it has been estimated that these and other services are each year worth about double global GDP

  Tony Juniper

  Nature, Army, Gdp

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• I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me

  William Hazlitt

  Nature, Doors, Rooms

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1206, Delphi Classics

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• By starting from the ground and tapping into the absolute, uncheatable truth of nature we can make ourselves better

  Monty Don

  Nature, Environment, Starting

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• Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!

  Amory Lovins

  Nature, Otters, Crow

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• Nature did all things well

  Michelangelo

  Nature, Environment, Wells

  Michelangelo Buonarroti (1960). “The Complete Poems of Michelangelo”

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• If we once, and for so long, lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again.

  John Zerzan

  Nature, Long, Balance

  "Take My Advice : Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two". Book edited by James L. Harmon, 2007.

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• The spirit of a country, if it is to be true to itself, needs continually to draw great breaths of inspiration from the simple realities of the country; from the smell of its soil, the pattern of its fields, the beauty of its scenery and from the men and women who dwell and toil in the rural areas

  George Stapledon

  Country, Nature, Inspiration

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• The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future

  Desmond Tutu

  Nature, Children, World

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