Quotes of Environment - somelinesforyou

“ The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. ”

- Alice Walker

“ I am the Lorax, and I'll yell and I'll shout for the fine things on earth that are on their way out! ”

- Dr. Seuss

“ I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues. ”

- Dr. Seuss

“ Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. ”

- Dr. Seuss

“ What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops. ”

- Paul Brooks

“ Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are. ”

- John B. Sheerin

“ Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context — a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan. ”

- Eliel Saarinen

“ The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. ”

- Viktor E. Frankl

“ The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant — and let the air out of their tires. ”

- Dorothy Parker

“ We're doing what we can to help reduce our environmental footprint in the community, and we hope other companies follow the lead. ”

- Thomas Day

“ Approximately 80 % of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent. ”

- Carl Jung

“ Heredity is nothing, but stored environment. ”

- Luther Burbank

“ Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will — his personal responsibility. ”

- Albert Schweitzer

“ One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so. ”

- John Naisbitt

“ People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame — and only one — themselves. ”

- Robert Collier

“ Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged. ”

- Saul Landau

“ We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment. ”

- John McDonald

“ Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. ”

- Horace

“ Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. ”

- Graham Greene

“ Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. ”

- Bruce Barton

“ My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature. ”

- Jane Goodall

“ Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. ”

- Jean de La Fontaine

“ Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. ”

- James Allen

“ I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain. ”

- James Agate

“ Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations. ”

- Jean Paul Richter
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