God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
- Richard Dawkins
Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.
- Germaine Greer
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein
The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.
- Lewis Mumford
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
- Jacques Barzun
What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.
- Hu Shih
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
- Marya Mannes
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
- Noam Chomsky
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
- Robert Redford
The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.
- Paul A. Samuelson
And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.
- Minoru Yamasaki
Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally.
- Marshall McLuhan
Time and space time to be alone, space to move about – these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.
- Edwin Way Teale
It wasn’t the Exxon Valdez captain’s driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill. It was yours.
- Greenpeace advertisement