#environment

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

— Herbie Hancock

#environment #eternally #just #linked #other

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it. ↗

— David R. Brower

#energy #every #every time #given #go

I believe it's in the best interests of a child to be in a stable environment. ↗

— Dan Savage

#best #best interests #child #environment #i

You must constantly change and adapt to a new environment. ↗

— Jong-yong Yun

#change #constantly #environment #must #new

I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character. ↗

— Debbie Reynolds

#around #character #comfortable #environment #i

Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up. ↗

— Patrick Buchanan

#clean #culture #environmental #environmental protection #garbage

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea. ↗

— George Carlin

#environment #song-lyrics #beauty

A crowd whose discontent has risen no higher than the level of slogans is only a crowd. But a crowd that understands the reasons for its discontent and knows the remedies is a vital community, and it will have to be reckoned with. I would rather go before the government with two people who have a competent understanding of an issue, and who therefore deserve a hearing, than with two thousand who are vaguely dissatisfied. But even the most articulate public protest is not enough. We don't live in the government or in institutions or in our public utterances and acts, and the environmental crisis has its roots in our lives. By the same token, environmental health will also be rooted in our lives. That is, I take it, simply a fact, and in the light of it we can see how superficial and foolish we would be to think that we could correct what is wrong merely by tinkering with the institutional machinery. The changes that are required are fundamental changes in the way we are living. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#creation #environment #life #lifestyle #policy

People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it. ↗

— Ha-Joon Chang

#green #sustainability #change

In spite of the string of magazine covers announcing the contrary, we all know that ten simple things will not save the earth. There are, rather, three thousand impossible things that all of us must do, and changing our light bulbs, while necessary, is the barest beginning. We are being called upon to act against a prevailing culture, to undermine our own entrenched tendency to accumulate and to consume, and to refuse to define our individuality by our presumed ability to do whatever we want. ↗

— Lyanda Lynn Haupt

#environment #change