#environment

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment. ↗

— Jack Vance

#completely #environment #immersed #reader #someone

The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making. ↗

— Ted Danson

#disasters #environmental #environmental movement #gradual #like

We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil. ↗

— Ted Danson

#company #environmental #get #get together #here

The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecological balance cannot be re-established unless we recognize again that only persons have ends and only persons can work towards them. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#economy #environment #humanity #society #economy

If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#compassion #contribute #definitely #destroying #energy

I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#book #decided #doing #environmental #find

Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#dismantle #elections #enough #environmental #every

For me it was perfect, because it wasn't a very competitive environment, and it was a studio program. They basically send you off, and say, bring us some work, and we'll help you improve it. It really rewarded self-discipline. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#because #bring #competitive #environment #help

You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#down #environment #go #gonna #great

It's all about fair trade, and helping people eating locally grown stuff. We're recycling everything. We're trying to tour in the most conscious way possible, environmentally and socially. ↗

— Andrew Dost

#conscious #eating #environmentally #everything #fair