Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.
I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer.
More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance.
We have a responsibility toward the other life-forms of our planet whose continued existence is threatened by the thoughtless behavior of our own human species. . . . Environmental responsibility – for if there is no God, then, obviously, it is up to us to put things right.
If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.
It is environmental illiteracy and a complete lack of forward thinking to ignore the need to halt and then reverse population growth in the context of climate change, travel congestion, unaffordable housing, and resource depletion
Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.
May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.
There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.
Plasticity is an intrinsic property of the human brain and represents evolution's invention to enable the nervous system to escape the restrictions of its own genome and thus adapt to environmental pressures, physiologic changes, and experiences.
The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying topography, or to farm without catastrophic soil erosion. A production-oriented economy can indeed live in this way, but only so long as production lasts.
We don't know what those other cycles were caused by in the past. Could be dinosaur flatulence, you know, or who knows?
A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.
We are deep at the bottom of this river of time, caught up in the current of the moment where all the rivers rendezvous.
I find it difficult to accept that it is the will of God that humanity should degrade, deface, desolate, and ultimately perhaps destroy His Creation on Earth. Yet this is the course on which we are embarked.
If you embrace moderation, eat whole foods instead of junk, live within your physical, monetary, and environmental budget rather than constantly exceeding it, you will lose weight, tread more lightly on the planet, and gain satisfaction from these things.
I think it is manmade. I think it's clearly manmade. If you don't understand what the cause is, it's virtually impossible to come up with a solution. We know what the cause is. The cause is manmade. That's the cause. That's why the polar icecap is melting.
What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change.
Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.