Our Environment Quotes - Page 3

• I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

  Robert Redford

  Nature, Thinking, Earth Day

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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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• My dear friends, God’s creation is one and it is good. The concerns for nonviolence, sustainable development, justice and peace, and care for our environment are of vital importance for humanity. They cannot, however, be understood apart from a profound reflection on the innate dignity of every human life from conception to natural death: a dignity conferred by God himself and thus inviolable.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Reflection, Profound, Justice

  Pope Benedict XVI (2014). “The Garden of God”, p.26, CUA Press

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• We have to show leadership in protecting our environment so that we have a future for our children and grandchildren.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Leadership, Children, Environmental

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. November 26, 2006.

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• Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.

  David Foreman

  Cancer, Brain, Environmental

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• My wish list is pretty short. I wish that we had empathy. As a society, we are so wrapped up in our own artificial creations that we have become disconnected from one another and the wonder of our natural world. I truly believe that empathy is the key to solving the majority of our environmental and social problems.

  Adrian Grenier

  Believe, Empathy, Wish

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• In the 24 hours since this time yesterday, over 200,000 acres of rainforest have been destroyed in our world. Fully 13 million tons of toxic chemicals have been released into our environment. Over 45,000 people have died from starvation, 38,000 of them children. And more than 130 plant and animal species have been driven to extinction by the actions of humans. And all this just since yesterday.

  Thom Hartmann

  Children, Animal, Our World

  "The Last Hours Of Ancient Sunlight: Waking up to personal and global transformation". Book by Thom Hartmann, 1998.

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• The young generation can influence their elders and can make them understand the environmental problems that are faced by us today. The youth can make them see that our environment is deteriorating day by day.

  Oren Lyons

  Young Generation, Environmental, Generations

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• You are Christians; find out what is true and false in Christianity - and you will then find out what is true. Find out what is true and false in your environment with all its oppressions and cruelties, and then you will find out what is true. Why do you want philosophies?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Christian

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti 1934-1935: What Is Right Action”, Editorial Kier

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• I know from firsthand experience that our environment and the things and people who cross our paths make all the difference. If people have no prospects for a decent job or a place to belong, it leaves them vulnerable to whoever comes along. For me, it was a Nazi skinhead.

  Christian Picciolini

  People, Path, Environment

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• We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

  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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• Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions... by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Mean, First Impression, Firsts

  "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, January 11, 2005.

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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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• Isn't it true that whatever isn't determined by our genes must be determined by our environment? What else is there? There's Nature and there's Nurture. Is there also some X, some further contributor to what we are? There's Chance. Luck. This extra ingredient is important but doesn't have to come from the quantum bowels of our atoms or from some distant star. It is all around us in the causeless coin-flipping of our noisy world, automatically filling in the gaps of specification left unfixed by our genes, and unfixed by salient causes in our environment.

  Daniel Dennett

  Stars, Luck, Important

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• The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.

  Elizabeth I

  Nature, Ocean, Science

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• All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we have added 1300 cities with populations over 100,000. When the environment is forced to file Chapter 11, the ecology collapses. Nations recover from war but not from a failed eco-system. The status of our environment is more threatening than all wars. It is forever.

  Gaylord Nelson

  War, Past, Years

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• The health of our waters is the principle measure of how we live on the land.

  Luna Leopold

  Land, Water, Environmental

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• He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Garden, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.154, Graphic Arts Books

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• You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows...and has always known...that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Dream, War

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• Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Science, Oxygen, Two

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6710, Delphi Classics

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• Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Sky, Earth Day

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.217, Courier Corporation

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• Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option...they will become a necessity.

  Fujio Cho

  Nature, Science, Car

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• When you feel depressed, it helps to actively change your environment. Go and do something different. Martin Luther conquered his depression by going outside to work in his garden. Surprisingly enough, one of the best ways to handle depression is to go to work immediately on the task you least enjoy. (The chances are your depression is caused by guilt feelings arising out of neglect of those tasks.)

  R. C. Sproul

  Depression, Garden, Feelings

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• Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

  Bill Vaughan

  Fun, Home, Names

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• A large part of our attitude toward things is conditioned by opinions and emotions which we unconsciously absorb as children from our environment. In other words, it is tradition—besides inherited aptitudes and qualities—which makes us what we are. We but rarely reflect how relatively small as compared with the powerful influence of tradition is the influence of our conscious thought upon our conduct and convictions.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Attitude, Quality

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.38, Open Road Media

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