Enviroment Quotes

“She was one of those exceptional children who do still spend time outside, in solitude. In her case nature represented beauty - and refuge. "It's so peaceful out there and the air smells so good. I mean, it's polluted, but not as much as the city air. For me, it's completely different there," she said. "It's like you're free when you go out there. It's your own time. Sometimes I go there when I'm mad - and then, just with the peacefulness, I'm better. I can come back home happy, and my mom doesn't even know why."
     The she described her special part of the woods.
     "I had a place. There was a big waterfall and a creek on one side of it. I'd dug a big hole there, and sometimes I'd take a tent back there, or a blanket, and just lie down in the hole, and look up at the trees and sky. Sometimes I'd fall asleep back there. I just felt free; it was like my place, and I could do what I wanted, with nobody to stop me. I used to go down there almost every day."
     The young poet's face flushed. Her voice thickened.
     "And then they just cut the woods down. It was like they cut down part of me.”
― Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

“Now, of course, having failed in every attempt to subdue the Glades by frontal attack, we are slowly killing it off by tapping the River of Grass. In the questionable name of progress, the state in its vast wisdom lets every two-bit developer divert the flow into drag-lined canals that give him 'waterfront' lots to sell. As far north as Corkscrew Swamp, virgin stands of ancient bald cypress are dying. All the area north of Copeland had been logged out, and will never come back. As the glades dry, the big fires come with increasing frequency. The ecology is changing with egret colonies dwindling, mullet getting scarce, mangrove dying of new diseases born of dryness.”
― John D. MacDonald, Bright Orange for the Shroud

“They talk about plants but she talks to plants. She believes plants can listen, talk, dance, and do whatever they want.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“The foods that are nearby are best for human beings, and things that he has to struggle to obtain turn out to be the least beneficial of all.”
― Fukuoka, Floodplain Risk Management (Proc Intl Wk

“The sky is grey, with a thin TV-static drizzle that hangs in the air like it's been freeze-framed.”
― Scarlett Thomas, The End of Mr. Y

“I hate the forest, it's absence of social enviroment.”
― Deyth Banger

“We dig up dinosaurs to try and figure out what happened to them. Perhaps someday dinosaurs, in the form of corvids, will dig us up to figure out what happened to us.”
― Jennifer Ackerman, The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think

“Percepire, accettare e condividere l'anima della montagna comporta prima di tutto accertarne l'esistenza, uno sforzo che non può ovviamente trovare riscontri scientifici, e tuttavia, in un mondo sempre più virtualizzato, credere di vivere in un luogo che possiede uno spirito tutto suo è un peccato veniale che ci verrà sicuramente perdonato.”
― E.C. Bröwa, Le cinque stagioni della montagna

“What, they should ask, will happen to the human psyche when such a defining part of the human evolutionary experience is diminished or erased?”
― Edward O. Wilson, In search of nature by Edward O. Wilson