#ironmen

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914) ↗

— John Muir

#environment #inspirational #interdependency #life #marvel

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#design #environmental #great #great problems #problems

Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant. ↗

— Paul Berg

#concerns #creating #environment #evolution #fears

I had a very supportive family environment that gave me room to explore and discover things about myself. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#discover #environment #explore #family #gave

In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#civilization #consequences #environment #foresight #insight

The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future. ↗

— Al Gore

#environment

One species on the planet, and one species only, has reached the point of being able to have an impact on the evolutionary fortunes of all other species and upon the functioning of all ecosystems. We also have, in a way that is not true for any other species, a relationship to the planet as a whole and to the future. We live with all life. ↗

— Walter Truett Anderson

#life #philosophical #life

Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food. ↗

— Criss Jami

#considerate #consideration #environment #experience #famine

Its beauty stirs the imagination, and I wonder if the last refuge of all that is truly wild lies not on earth but in light. ↗

— Ellen Meloy

#beauty

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view. ↗

— Edward O. Wilson

#activism