Quotes on Environment

The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.

Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life.

We know that when we protect our oceans we're protecting our future.

The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive.

No one person has to do it all but if each one of us follow our heart and our own inclinations we will find the small things that we can do to create a sustainable future and a healthy environment.

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.

The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.

The world has a way of undermining complex plans. This is particularly true in fast moving environments. A fast moving environment can evolve more quickly than a complex plan can be adapted to it. By the time you have adapted, the target has changed.

Each of us has much more hidden inside us than we have had a chance to explore. Unless we create an environment that enables us to discover the limits of our potential, we will never know what we have inside of us.

Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

When each of these three elements of vision-concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment-are present, business is transformed from a tool for making profits into a creative, humane experiment for improving life.

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.

April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.