Quotes on Our Environment

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment.

I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

Observe your environment. Invite people into your life that don't look like you or think like you

The masters say if you create an auspicious condition in your body and your environment then meditation and realization will automatically arise.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

Our environments shape the way we see ourselves. If you have been condemned to live in an area that is pretty evidently a rat-run, then sooner or later you're gonna come to the conclusion that you're a rat.

The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.

By 2010 computers will disappear. They'll be so small, they'll be embedded in our clothing, in our environment. Images will be written directly to our retina, providing full-immersion virtual reality, augmented real reality. We'll be interacting with virtual personalities.

The preservation of biodiversity is not just a job for governments. International and non-governmental organisations, the private sector and each and every individual have a role to play in changing entrenched outlooks and ending destructive patterns of behaviour

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually brought into conformity with the facts by the painful process of selection,-for intuition runs equally into truth and into error, and can settle nothing if not controlled by experience,-we gain vastly in our command over our environment. This is the fundamental value of natural science

To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.

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