He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.
Henry David ThoreauStichwörter: science love nature depression environmental henry-david-thoreau
The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.
Elizabeth IStichwörter: wisdom freedom nature sea ocean belong private air common all environmental fair-user queen-elizabeth
A hard lesson had been learned--that man himself suffers most when his hand despoils the earth and robs it of its legitimate fruits.
Lois LenskiStichwörter: environmental lesson-for-life
A new respect for Nature had been learned, a new kinship with sun and water and soil....They had learned that while Nature is often beautiful and kind, her laws must be respected, for they are ruthless and inexorable as well. Man must accept these laws and adjust his way of living to them. Then only can he prosper.
Lois LenskiStichwörter: environmental lesson-for-life
Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.
John F. KennedyStichwörter: environmental
Who will bear witness to these small islands and oases of wildness as land is divided and sold to become strip malls, housing developments,and parking lots? What happens to the natural history here? We must bear witness.
Joni L. JamesStichwörter: nature wildness landscape environmental
Our inability to think beyond our own species, or to be able to co-habit with other life forms in what is patently a massive collaborative quest for survival, is surely a malady that pervades the human soul.
Lawrence AnthonyStichwörter: environmentalism conservation wilderness species environmental
If we fail, the planet will grow sterile and your people will die in hunger, thirst and waves of plagues. Our people and the thrm's will die more slowly because the poisons here will render us unable to conceive. The skies will cease to be blue, the land will lose its verdure and the seas, well, the seas will be the first to go. Anything that does survive will be broken, mutant, discontinuous from us and mutually exclusive. It will be the new life of a shattered world, a world for chitinous, crawly things, not one for soft and tender emotion. I hope, child, I have answered your question."
Meg said nothing. None of it made sense, but she still felt an urge to deny it, deny it, even though Ekaterina's strange, rolling words carried a ring of truth. Suddenly, the autumn chill cut through all her layers of bundling wraps. She could not stop shivering.
Stichwörter: science technology human evolution destruction plague hunger dwarves environmental destruction-of-nature science-fiction-fantasy
If we deny climate change and don’t care about environmental degradation; we are no more than those people who are willing to be stupid because someone else was stupid in the past.
M.F. MoonzajerStichwörter: stupid degradation care deny climate-change environmental
Many of us imagine carrying out dramatic changes in impoverished places, but few have the patience for the small, time-consuming, and seemingly endless details that make it possible.
Deni Ellis BéchardStichwörter: science conservation non-fiction congo environmental bonobo
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