“The first step in becoming a truly happy person is to make peace with your life. The second step will be to spread that peace into your environment.”— Gracia Hunter
“Because loners are born everywhere, we end up living everywhere. We do not, have not, tended to single ourselves out as special, elite, requiring rarefied environments. Too often we have done the opposite; lived where we lived because our jobs were there, or families, or because we’d heard the schools were good there, or that we would love a place with changing seasons. Then, no matter what, we put our noses to the grindstone. We take living there as a fait accompli, a fact. Too often we are miserable somewhere without realizing why. We blame ourselves for not buckling down, settling in, fitting in. The problem is the place, but too often we do not see this, we will not allow ourselves to see this. It’s the same old thing: This is a friendly town, so what’s your problem?…To the non-loner, or the self-reproaching loner, the fact of being a loner is not comparable to those other determinants. It is not a matter of life and death, we tell ourselves. It its not a matter of breathing or of execution by stoning. But home is the crucible of living…So how can living not be a matter of life and death?”— Anneli Rufus
“For me, walking in a hard Dakota wind can be like staring at the ocean: humbled before its immensity, I also have a sense of being at home on this planet, my blood so like the sea in chemical composition, my every cell partaking of air. I live about as far from the sea as is possible in North America, yet I walk in a turbulent ocean. Maybe that child was right when he told me that the world is upside-down here, and this is where angels drown.”— Kathleen Norris
“A very large percentage of illnesses are the expressions of inadequate responses to the environment.”— René Dubos
“The hostile attitude of conquering nature ignores the basic interdependence of all things and events – that the world beyond the skins is actually an extension of our own bodies – and will end in destroying the very environment form which we emerge and upon which our whole life depends”— Alan W. Watts
“The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid erosion, pollution, environmental degradation, and resource waste. Any rational food-production system will emphasize the well-being of the soil-air-water biosphere, the creatures which inhabit it, and the human beings who depend upon it.”— Eliot Coleman
“The organism’s environment is the sense it makes of the world. This environment is a place of significance and valence, as a result of the global action of the organism.”— Evan Thompson
“Your environment should not restrict your growth. Your atmosphere will impact your sprit, mind and body. The right one can make a world of difference in your life and the life of all within your world. Create a growth environment to grow consistently and to impact many around you”— Farshad Asl
“An attitude to life which seeks fulfilment in thesingle-minded pursuit of wealth – in short, materialism – does not fit into thisworld, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while theenvironment in which it is placed is strictly limited.”— Ernst F. Schumacher
“Perhaps it’s my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.”— Bill Bryson
“It is the relationship between the physical environment and the environed organism, between physiography and ontography (to coin a term), that constitutes the essential principles of geography today.”— William Morris Davis
“I am only a child yet I know if all money spent on war was spent on finding environmental answers, ending poverty, and binding treaties, what a wonderful place this Earth would be.”— A. Zampolli
“We become exactly like who we hang out with – we become our environment. We take on the very nature of who we submit to and they cannot teach us anything that they don’t know.”— Vincent Wambua Nzoka
“This is why militarism is a feminist issue, why rape is an environmental issue, why environmental destruction is a peace issue. We will never dismantle misogyny as long as domination is eroticized. We will also never stop racism. Nor will we mount an effective resistance to fascism, which is the eroticization of domination and subordination–fascism is in essence a cult of masculinity. Those are all huge spin-outs from the same beginning. The result is torture, rape, genocide, and biocide.”— Lierre Keith
“This is why militarism is a feminist issue, why rape is an environmental issue, why environmental destruction is a peace issue.”— Lierre Keith
“Internal growth and development were not entirely unaffected by my external environment. No amount of escapism, through either the physical or the mental outlets, could cushion me from the reality of what was taking place.”— Sara Niles
“Everything you see before you is the result of poverty. But how are things any better in the wealthy countries? They protect their own environments, but then shift the heavily polluting industries to the poorer nations.”— Liu Cixin
“Reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.”— Terence McKenna
“Identify the environment where we live and work is important to make us better.”— Da Anunciação Marco
“Everyone has the power to make a difference, to themselves and others, and to our world.”— Yasmin Davar
“It is absolutely certain that we must act to protect nature much more efficiently than ever before. Tomorrow – when mankind will step forward to a totally uncertain future – will be too late.”— Eraldo Banovac