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I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams. -- Halldor Laxness
We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live. -- Jim Clyburn
I'm trying to get across the message that don't be afraid of animals, they're just put on this earth to help the environment and everything like that. -- Bindi Irwin
Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill. -- Stephen Hawking
The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival. -- Albert Claude
Human civilization has been changing the Earth's environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts. -- Jamais Cascio
The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth. -- Buzz Aldrin
Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia. -- James Lovelock
Well, perhaps the greatest achievement, and we didn't know it at the time, was we held an Earth Day in 1970, and out of that Earth Day a lot of students got involved in saving the environment, or trying to. -- Pete McCloskey
There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about whether there was life on Mars, about the environment in which Earth and the Sun is immersed, the behavior of the Sun. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Ocean planets might be very common in the universe because water is very common in the low-temperature environments where planets form and evolve. This might be especially true for super-Earths, which can retain volatiles more easily thanks to their larger mass and surface gravity. -- Dimitar Sasselov
All the Tauruses I know have this connection to the earth and the environment. We are very curious people, very loyal, very aware of and respectful of our surroundings. Also, we're stubborn, but that's our way. We understand what we want, which is not bad. -- Francisco Costa
Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre, and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. -- Nhat Hanh
Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment. -- Jamais Cascio
All European tradition, Marxism included, has conspired to defy the natural order of all things. Mother Earth has been abused, the powers have been abused, and this cannot go on forever. No theory can alter that simple fact. Mother Earth will retaliate, the whole environment will retaliate, and the abusers will be eliminated. -- Russell Means
Life has evolved to thrive in environments that are extreme only by our limited human standards: in the boiling battery acid of Yellowstone hot springs, in the cracks of permanent ice sheets, in the cooling waters of nuclear reactors, miles beneath the Earth's crust, in pure salt crystals, and inside the rocks of the dry valleys of Antarctica. -- Jill Tarter
The earth is not just our environment. The earth is our mother. -- Dalai Lama
The Earth is our environment to protect and the garden to tend to. -- Pope Francis
We ought to live heaven on earth, clean environment, the beauty of blissful realms. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Business and the environment: Wasting resources costs the earth - and lowers your competitive edge -- Phil Harding
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Sustainability is treating ourselves and our environment as if we are to live on this earth forever. -- Arron Wood
We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth. -- Nhat Hanh
To be an environmentalist is to care about the environment and care about life on planet Earth. -- Sharon Gannon
We must experience Heaven on earth;May your homes, surroundings and work places portray a safe clean environment. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment... -- Nhat Hanh
You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. -- Nhat Hanh
The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world. -- Al Gore
Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment. -- Craig Venter
Cher is really down-to-earth, very nurturing, incredibly funny and fun, a great storyteller, and creates a great environment on the set. -- Steve Antin
Taoism extols the virtue of flexibility. What survives on earth is what effortlessly adapts to the changing environment and changing circumstances. -- Ernie J Zelinski
Your sister is the only creature on earth who shares your heritage, history, environment, DNA, bone structure, and contempt for stupid Aunt Gertie. -- Linda Sunshine
Water is the basis of life and the blue arteries of the earth! Everything in the non-marine environment depends on freshwater to survive. -- Sandra Postel
We should have no concern for the environment, because, after the great flood with Noah, God promised that He would never ruin the earth again. -- James Inhofe
The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. -- Rachel Carson
I believe we have a profound fundamental need for areas of the earth where we stand without our mechanisms that make us immediate masters over our environment. -- Howard Zahniser
Once you realize that human actions affect every bit of earth and sky, you realize that the environment isn't just what surrounds us - it's all one whole. -- Alison Hawthorne Deming
Those trees are your lungs. The earth recycles as your body. The rivers recycle as your circulation. The air is your breath. So what do we call the environment? -- Deepak Chopra
We live in a world where no one believes. Enlightenment and knowledge are laughed at. Those who seek and teach the mysteries are scorned and often persecuted. Welcome to the planet earth: environment hostile. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
We live in a world where no one believes. Enlightenment and knowledge are laughed at. Those who seek and teach the mysteries are scorned and often persecuted. Welcome to the planet earth: environment hostile. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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