Environmental Stress Quotes

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

Floods, droughts, and natural disasters are a fact of life for farmers, ranchers, and foresters. They have persevered in the past, and they will adapt in the future - with the assistance of the scientists and experts at USDA.

Population growth and development place additional stress on the Nation's water infrastructure and its ability to sustain hard-won water quality gains.

All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.

Evolutionary biologists have long pondered the phenomenon of the changing colours of autumn leaves. It's possible that the red pigments are manufactured in the leaf as a side-effect of something else that's happening at this time.

Climate change brings pressures that will influence resource competition between nations and place additional burdens on economies, societies and governance institutions around the globe. These effects are threat multipliers.

Everybody is always talking about droughts and sea level rise, but when human civilization, with more crowding and greater resource depletion, is under that much stress, it translates into wars and huge displaced populations. The Syrian refugee crisis is just a first taste of what it's going to be like. I don't want my kids growing up in that kind of world.

The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with small rents in the fabric; it can even, after a time, cope with major disasters like floods, fires, and earthquakes. What nature cannot cope with is the steady undermining of its fabric by the activities of man.

It sounds like an extremist thing to say, but what do people think is going to happen to human beings when there's not enough food?

The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle resulting in injury or disease.

I don't like new environments. I don't like being around a lot of new people. It makes me uncomfortable.

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.

We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.

A healthy plant is one that adapts best to the situation in which it finds itself. There is no objective measure of this.

What about this overcrowded land/How much more abuse from man can she stand?

We should not put additional stressors on God's creatures through irresponsible trade practices in wild birds.

Some global hazards are insidious. They stem from pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. And they will be aggravated as the population rises to a projected nine billion by mid-century, and by the effects of climate change. An 'ecological shock' could irreversibly degrade our environment.

As an explorer, I know firsthand there are many places in the ocean so full of life that they should be protected. Coral reefs and mangrove coastlines are stressed already by climate change and ocean acidification, and poor planning will just make their plight worse.

Music forced into the air you breathe is an invasion of privacy!

The majority of autists - as well as their parents - seem to be genuine victims of environmental stress.

Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings.

Nature is a catchment of sorrows.

The drought was the very worst when the flowers that we'd grown together died of thirst.

Drought brings out the worst in us and it's easy to hate your fellow human beings.

This is our greatest challenge: learning to live in a crowded and interconnected world that is creating unprecedented pressures on human society and on the physical environment.