#environmental

But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#human-impact #industrial-revolution #death

We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#criminal #criminal justice #economic #economic justice #electoral

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place! ↗

— David R. Brower

#garbage #place #reactors #safely #store

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic. ↗

— James Buchan

#alliance #beings #climate #convenience #diplomacy

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment. ↗

— Pat Buckley

#birds #environment #find #god #i

There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it. ↗

— Thomas R. Cech

#area #attention #better #concerns #ecology

Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities. ↗

— Jim Clyburn

#environment #environmental #environmental protection #families #happen

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves. ↗

— Robert Collier

#blame #environment #only #people #person

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#art #concern #education #embedded #firmly

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#environmental #incurable #only #pollution #prevented