Environment Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Environment
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~ Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood. ~

Susan Sontag

~ It used to be thought that our love of plants was an impractical but pure passion. But now, in the age of environmental crisis, we're discovering that gardening is essential to human life. ~

Jacqueline Heriteau

~ Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself…. When we compare the (present) human population of the globe with … that of former times, we see that “chemical imperialism” has been … the main end to which human intelligence has been devoted. ~

Bertrand Russell

~ We Americans have so much potential. We just need to cultivate an environment that allows us to let go of our Cro-Magnon nationalism and start living like citizens of earth. ~

Steve Pavlina

~ In today's environment, hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something very important, the way to get power is by actually sharing it. ~

Joseph Badaracco

~ Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals ~

Albert Schweitzer

~ Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. ~

John Dewey

~ People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame -- and only one -- themselves. ~

Robert Collier

~ There can be no greater moral obligation in the environmental field than to ease out the living space and replace dereliction by beauty. ~

Frank Fraser Darling

~ The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to experience mysteries transcending daily life and from which to recapture, in a Proustian kind of remembrance, the awareness of the cosmic forces that have shaped humankind. ~

Rene Dubos

~ Awareness is becoming acquainted with the environments, no matter where one happens to be. Man does not suddenly become aware or infused with wonder; it is something we are born with. No child need be told its secrets; he keeps it until the influence of gadgetry and the indifference of teen-age satiation extinguish its intuitive joy. ~

Sigurd F. Olson

~ I believe we have a profound fundamental need for areas of the earth where we stand without our mechanisms that make us immediate masters over our environment. ~

Howard Zahniser

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