#environmental

On the train: staring hypnotized at the blackness outside the window, feeling the incomparable rhythmic language of the wheels, clacking out nursery rhymes, summing up moments of the mind like the chant of a broken record: god is dead, god is dead. going, going, going. and the pure bliss of this, the erotic rocking of the coach. France splits open like a ripe fig in the mind; we are raping the land, we are not stopping. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#industry #trains #environmentalism

Management" of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American incarnation. ↗

— Bill McKibben

#environmentalism #humility #woods #environmentalism

One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#develop #environmental #i #index #like

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose. ↗

— William Bartram

#animal #artifice #attention #bestow #creation

That area environmentally is a waste. You can't do anything. I don't care if the Sierra Club goes out there. It is fully polluted! You're not only going to work to clean up the environment, but also you will put people to work. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#anything #area #care #clean #clean up

Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term. ↗

— Ted Danson

#dabbling #environmental #environmental issues #every #important

Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known; restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#dam #environmental #instance #larger #mine

A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#approach #best #challenge #decisions #environmental

In my almost ten years in the House of Representatives, I have voted consistently to allow companies to drill for oil and natural gas in environmentally friendly ways. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#almost #companies #consistently #drill #environmentally

And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense. ↗

— Daryl Hannah

#common #common sense #doing #environmental #generation