Quotes about Environment

Help people realize that their actions, however small they may seem, will truly make a difference. The cumulative effect of thousands of ethical actions can help to save and improve our world for future generations. And why would you bother to take action if you did not truly hope that it would make a difference?

We must remember that we have not inherited this planet from our parents, we have borrowed it from our children. But we have not been borrowing their future, we have stolen it and we keep stealing it.

Today it is known as Haller Park and is visited by people from around the world, and it serves as a model for other restoration projects.

She truly is a symbol of the resilience of nature—and a reminder of all that was lost on that terrible day twenty years ago.

Imagine—this gangly plant, which Darwin likened to a duckbill platypus of the vegetable kingdom, has survived as a species, unchanged, for 135 to 205 million years. Originally its habitat was lush, moist forest, yet it has now adapted to a very different environment—the harsh Namib Desert.

As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

Have you ever thought that the only ugl things in this Cove are man's fault, while the beautiful things are God's work? Look at those mountains.

Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky.

In our spiritual disintegration we may not be able to rule the earth, but we now have the power several times over to ruin it utterly.

An act of faith in the biblical tradition is always undertaken in an environment of knowledge and is inseparable from it.

"I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the einsteinconditions in which they can learn."