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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. (Ansel Adams)
Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts. For out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these, if you but remain true to them your world will at last be built. (James Allen)
A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous. (Carl Andre)
It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment. (Carl Andre)
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children. (John James Audubon)
Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man. (Henry Beston)
Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved. (Bill Bradley)
The environment becomes inspiration. My response to it becomes idea. And idea becomes purpose and action through interpretation and painting. (Gerald Brommer)
And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: 'Look at this Godawful mess.' (Art Buchwald)
-The Beech Tree's Petition, 1800
O leave this barren spot to me! / Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree. (Thomas Campbell)
The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place. (Rachel Carson)
The world either breaks or hardens the heart. (Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort)
-b.1860 d.1904...
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. (Anton Chekhov)
Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem. (Doug Coupland)
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change. (Quentin Crisp)
Our cultural, religious and political constructs and our need and ability to control our environment move us ever further away from nature and create even stronger yearnings to be one with it. (Mary Ellen Crowley)
If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life. (Jeffrey Eugenides)
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. (Buckminster Fuller)
Clutter forces the brain to consume energy. Create uncluttered environments instead. (Carmine Gallo)
Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky, / We fell them down and turn them into paper, / That we may record our emptiness. (Kahlil Gibran)
The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies. (Al Gore)
-In a Time of Googling, Grow Where You Are Planted
If we awake each morning and find our roots are well planted, perhaps we can show in our art-making the indebtedness to our physical and cultural environments. If some of us select subject, theme, imagery or method which might be construed as Regional, then simply let it be. Relax about it. We are part of the fabric of culture... of visual art in which all geographic and intellectual regions weave together. (Gary John Gresl)
We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted. (Napoleon Hill)
For... first artists, the native people, art was not only of a functional nature, but also linked to their concepts of religion and the relationship of man to his environment. (James J. Kurtz)
As people alive today, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is therefore part of our responsibility toward others to ensure that the world we pass on is as healthy, if not healthier, than we found it. (Dalai Lama)
It is impossible for me to make a painting which has no reference to the powerful environment in which I live. (Peter Lanyon)
He who plants a tree / Plants a hope. (Lucy Larcom)
The way we pay attention to the world can make a huge difference in the way we experience it. (Gabrielle Leblanc)
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. (Aldo Leopold)
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
We make the world we live in and shape our own environment. (Orison Swett Marden)
It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art. (Marshall McLuhan)
I'd rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on Earth. (Steve McQueen)
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. (William Morris)
The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster. (Barack Obama)
Connection with uncorrupted nature is a rare and endangered experience in today's expanding urban environment. (Rebecca Perehudoff)
All my paintings are direct responses to my environment... the image before me does not have to be dramatic; an intimate view of wildflowers gets the same attention as a spectacular sunset. (Jim Petty)
The biggest waste of water in the country is when you spend half a pint and flush two gallons. (Prince Philip)
Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire. (Rumi)
Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. (Ernst F. Schumacher)
-of Dalziel & Scullion...
Mankind's future seems at once perilous yet at the same time has this unending continuity to more ancient times, to a pattern of life that seems to keep going despite the efforts of humans. (Louise Scullion)
The pollution's at that awkward stage. Too thick to navigate and too thin to cultivate. (Doug Sneyd)
Never to allow gradually the traffic to smother / With noise and fog the flowering of the spirit. (Stephen Spender)
When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable. (Mark Twain)
We are either like a thermometer or like a thermostat. The first is controlled by the environment, the second controls the environment. (Author unknown)
It is human nature to be inspired by our surroundings. Sights, sounds, the sheer air we breathe, can affect many an artist, coming from both conscious and unconscious sources. (Jacques Vesery)
Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
Because the living environment is what really sustains us. (Edward O. Wilson)
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