Quotes on Environment

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

... this task entrusted to us by God the Creator requires us to grasp the rhythm and logic of creation. But we are often driven by pride of domination, of possessions, manipulation, of exploitation; we do not "care" for it, we do not respect it, we do not consider it as a free gift that we must care for.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

If your a leader, do everything you can to grow yourself and create the right environment for others to grow.

Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.

A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.

If we've learned any lessons during the past few decades, perhaps the most important is that preservation of our environment is not a partisan challenge; it's common sense. Our physical health, our social happiness, and our economic well-being will be sustained only by all of us working in partnership as thoughtful, effective stewards of our natural resources.

The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.

Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon

We are living as if we had three planets' worth of resources to live with rather than just one. We need to cut by about two-thirds our ecological footprint. For that we need one planet farming as well as one planet living - one planet farming which minimises the impact on the environment of food production and consumption, and which maximises its contribution to renewal of the natural environment

It is the responsibility of leadership and management to give opportunities and put demands on people which enable them to grow as human beings in their work environment.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.

We're like lightbulbs. If bliss starts growing inside you, it's like a light; it affects the environment.