#Environment Quotes

“The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.”

“A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue.”

“Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.”

“Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.”

“Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.”

“We make our buildings, and then our buildings make and shape us.”

“Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing around us, I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen, the sanative and Americanizing influence, which promises to disclose new virtues for ages to come.”

“We make our buildings and afterwards they make us. They regulate the course of our lives.”

“Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.”

“What we are doing is deeply unfair and a profound tragedy - what we're doing in the way of global warming, what we're doing to the oceans - and none of it makes any sense to me.”

“Surround yourself with people who are doers!”

“The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is cultivated by a so much inferior class. The land,--travel a whole day together,--looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor.”

“Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.”

“We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.”

“We shape our homes and then our homes shape us.”

“The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.”

“It's slow. It's inch by inch. But nature always bats last. The planet isn't going anywhere.”

“We build dwellings and thereafter they build us.”

“Show me a healthy community with a healthy economy and I will show you a community that has its green infrastructure in order and understands the relationship between the built and the unbuilt environment.”

“I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry.”

“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”

“Arrange photographs of nature scenes, animals and expressions of joy and love in your environment and let their energy radiate into your heart and provide you with their higher frequency.”

“When we consider how much climate contributes to the happiness of our condition, by the fine sensation it excites, and the productions it is the parent of, we have reason to value highly the accident of birth in such a one as that of Virginia.”

“The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.”

“Who you spend time with is who you become! Change your life by consciously choosing to surround yourself with people with higher standards!”

“Rotation of crops and less automobiles will relieve the farmers whenever they decide to try it.”

“I had this thought a while ago,"My darling cannot understandWhat I have done, or what would doIn this blind bitter land."And I grew weary of the sun”

“All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience, factors to which the environment and the lessons it has so far taught us must learn to bend.”

“Local conservation programs can help our communities shape thoughtful growth.”

“Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood,Even where horrible green parrots call and swing.My works are all stamped down into the sultry mud.”

“Without enough wilderness America will change. Democracy, with its myriad personalities and increasing sophistication, must be fibred and vitalized by regular contact with outdoor growths - animals, trees, sun warmth and free skies - or it will dwindle and pale.”

“Surround yourself with doers. Be around people who demonstrate thier boldness.”

“The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.”

“Communities should be planned with an eye to the effect on the human spirit of being continually surrounded by a maximum of beauty.”

“Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.”

“The snow, the wind, the sun and the sounds of nature, can all be reminders to you that you're an integral part of the natural world.”

“All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.”

“The immediate need for education and practice in using our natural resources of soil, forest, water, wildlife and areas of inspirational beauty to the best advantage of all, for this generation and others to come, is again apparent to every observant citizen.”

“IT'S OUR AMERICA - DO SOMETHING TO PRESERVE ITS' BEAUTY STRENGTH, AND NATURALWEALTH”

“I was raised in the city, shittyEver since I was an itty bitty kittyDrinkin' liquor out my momma's tittyAnd smokin' weed was an everyday thang in my household,And drinking liquor til' you out cold”

“Ever since I was an itty bitty kitty, been drinking liquor out of Mama's titty.”

“In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent.”

“How many pistols smoking coming from a broken family?”

“The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.”

“I turn to a life of crime cause I came from a broken family.”

“A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.”

“Hawthorne sucks... It's a crazy place, and I'm happy that I was the weird one that got out.”

“The people made me from the littlest crack head to the biggest baller so if i am bad its because of the bay and if i am good its because of the bay”

“Being in Marin City was like a small town so it taught me to be more [straightforward] with my style. Instead of of being so metaphorical with the rhyme, I was encouraged to go straight at it and hit it dead on and not waste time trying to cover thingsIn Marin City it seemed like things were real country. Everything was straightforward. Poverty was straightforward.”

“Nothing should be permitted to stand in the way of the preservation of the forests, and it is criminal to permit individuals to purchase a little gain for themselves through the destruction of forests when this destruction is fatal to the well-being of the whole country in the future.”