#ironmen

How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing. Why don't they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us? ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#environment #inspirational #planet #inspirational

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

— Christopher Alexander

#design #environmental #great #great problems #problems

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being. ↗

— Luis Barragan

#architecture #art #atmosphere #being #consciously

We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through. ↗

— Arthur Boyd

#education #environment #get #hope #intense

The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#excitement #metabolism #nutrition #permeated #vitamins

We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine. ↗

— Pierce Brosnan

#better #children #environment #imagine #our

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#blessings #crossing #fulfillment #great #highest

The idea that humans are yet intelligent enough to serve as stewards of the Earth is among the most hubristic ever. ↗

— James Lovelock

#intelligence

It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming. ↗

— John Coleman

#amazed #appalled #create #data #environmental

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