#environment

The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it. ↗

— David Attenborough

#environment #nature #science #change

If you can't reuse or repair an item, do you ever really own it? Do you ever really own it? Do you ever develop the sense of pride and proprietorship that comes from maintaining an object in fine working order? We invest something of ourselves in our material world, which in turn reflects who we are. In the era of disposability that plastic has helped us foster, we have increasingly invested ourselves in objects that have no real meaning in our lives. We think of disposable lighters as conveniences -- which they indisputably are; ask any smoker or backyard-barbecue chef -- and yet we don't think much about the tradeoffs that that convenience entails. ↗

— Susan Freinkel

#environment #plastic #sustainability #love

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

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#flying #god #men

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

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

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 certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football. ↗

— James Cameron

#certainly #environment #football #gifted #good