Jade Bird Quotes

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.

Nature is simply the environment on earth in which man finds himself, and to treat it as a separate being in the image of man is sheer nonsense.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.

It's not that hard to imagine the natural world recovering it's health in our absence: it's more difficult, and more necessary, to imagine it recovering its health in our presence.

Environmentalism is a way of seeing our place within the biosphere.

Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.

I am a big lover of the environment. I actually come from Maine, which is pretty much all environment.

The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders and avoid seeing it - would for me seem like a form of madness. I'm also interested in the way landscape shapes individuals and populations, and from that, cultures.

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.

The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

People in general romanticize nature, and they make it out to be something that it isn't because humans are so awful. And yes, we are absolutely screwing up this planet, but that is only because we have the capabilities to do so. Animals are not better than us. They are not nicer than us.

Ecology has become the political substitute for the word "motherhood.

The great task for environmental historians is to record and analyze the effects of man's recently achieved control over the natural world. What is needed is a longer-term global, comparative, historical perspective that treats the environment as a meaningful variable.

human ecology

As a kid, I was going to be a marine biologist or an actor. When I became successful as an actor, I said, 'Well, maybe I can lend a voice to this with an equal passion.' You realize how lucky we are and how destructive we've been and what little regard we have for the natural world.

The natural world is a source of inspiration.

Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power.

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

My main issue is sustainability of the Earth, and protection of those animals and people who dwell here.

The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.