Now I see the secret of making the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. —Walt Whitman More about this quote Tags: freedom earth sleep air Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An environmental setting developed over millions of years must be considered to have some merit. Anything so complicated as a planet, inhabited by more than a million and a half species of plants and animals, all of them living together in a more or less balanced equilibrium in which they continually use and reuse the same molecules of the soil and air, cannot be improved by aimless and uninformed tinkering. —E. F. Schumacher More about this quote Tags: life progress animals harmony plants air equilibrium Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
God is not a continent, like Antarctica, lying off somewhere, inert, without relation to human life till some Scott or Amundsen or Byrd finds him. God is not a mountain peak to which travelers must go and which they climb step by step. God is like the air we breathe or the earth beneath our feet. To discover God is simply to awaken to reality. It is like a plant discovering the sun and the rain that drew it from the earth or like children discovering the parents who gave them birth and love and nurture. —Luther A. Weigle More about this quote Tags: love life reality God children birth earth air awakening Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
They gave him a seashell: "So you'll learn to love the water." They opened a cage and let a bird go free: "So you'll learn to love the air." They gave him a geranium: "So you'll learn to love the earth." And they gave him a little bottle sealed up tight. "Don't ever, ever open it. So you'll learn to love mystery. —Eduardo Galeano More about this quote Tags: love learning mystery earth water air Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. —Stewart Udall More about this quote Tags: humanity conservation water wilderness air Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I shot an arrow into the air, and it stuck. —Graffito More about this quote Tags: air Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend if the air is too dirty to breathe, the water is too polluted to drink, the commuters are losing out in the struggle to get in and out of the city, the streets are filthy, the schools are so bad that the young perhaps wisely stay away, and the hoodlums roll citizens for some of the dollars they saved in the tax cut. —John Kenneth Galbraith More about this quote Tags: money environmentalism water air city streets schools Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. —George Burns More about this quote Tags: humor memory sex air Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When industrial pollutants finally make the air unbreathable, we will be advised to cover the cities over with plastic domes and air-condition them. Technological optimism is the snake oil of urban industrialism. —Theodore Roszak More about this quote Tags: air breathing pollution domes Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy. —Napoleon Bonaparte More about this quote Tags: water cleanliness medicine air Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email