Quotes about Environment

Nothing should be carelessly thrown away, not even wine from sinful places. There was no such thing as garbage, trash, or dirt, only matter that hadn't been put to a proper use.

Something about a bunch of trees made people think they could cut loose. "Wherever there's Nature, there's assholes," he said cheerfully.

A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us.

We can create as magnificent an environment as we like, but unless we change the heart it's all a waste of time.

There's more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

There's a difference between passively accepting every element of your environment (and thus missing opportunities to exploit) and being wise enough to leave the unchangeable alone, or at least work around it.

I myself am part of the weather and part of the climate and part of the place … It is certainly part of my life of prayer.

Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!

Yet the Bible teaches that the local church is the natural environment for discipling. In fact, it teaches that the local church is itself the basic discipler of Christians. It does this through its weekly gatherings and its accountability structures (this chapter), as well as its elders and its members (next chapter). These in turn provide the context for the one-on-one discipling we have been considering so far.

Shall the world, then, be overrun by oysters?

We are given this beautiful life, this beautiful world, and we destroy it with ingratitude and hate.

When the compressor for the air conditioning in the house turns on, I feel apologetic. I had no idea how loud it was out here, clearly interrupting a whole valley full of creatures that are trying to say something to one another.