Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.
Showing posts with label Environment Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Environment Quotes. Show all posts
Your outlook upon life, your e...
Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day...
Your grandchildren will likely...
Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!
You must teach your children t...
You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.
You go into a community and th...
You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you ask them to devote 20 minutes a year to having their car emissions inspected, they will vote 80 to 20 against it. We are a long way in this country from taking individual responsibility for the environmental problem.
You forget that the fruits bel...
You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
With laissez-faire and price a...
With laissez-faire and price atomic, Ecology's Uneconomic, But with another kind of logic Economy's Unecologic
Will urban sprawl spread so fa...
Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat - glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning?
Why should man expect his pray...
Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?
Why do people give each other ...
Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they're killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? ""Sweetheart, let's make up. Have this deceased squirrel.""
When you use a manual push mow...
When you use a manual push mower, you're "cutting" down on pollution and the only thing in danger of running out of gas is you!
When you defile the pleasant s...
When you defile the pleasant streams And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams And cast your spittle in God's face
When we Indians kill meat, we ...
When we Indians kill meat, we eat it all up.... When we build houses, we make little holes. When we burn grass for grasshoppers, we don't ruin things. We shake down acorns and pinenuts. We don't chop down the trees.
When some high-sounding instit...
When some high-sounding institute states that a compound is harmless or a process free of risk, it is wise to know whence the institute or the scientists who work there obtain their financial support.
When one tugs at a single thin...
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
When a man wantonly destroys o...
When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.
When a man throws an empty cig...
When a man throws an empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable to a fine of $50. When a man throws a billboard across a view, he is richly rewarded.
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