Environmental Values Quotes

“Caring a tree is caring of your soul.”
― Amit Ray, Yoga The Science of Well-Being

“Having a conscience now is a grief-soaked proposition”
― Stephen Jenkinson

“Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover”
― Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

“Environmental cleanliness begins with each individual desire to be clean.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Earth Citizens are people who care for the earth as they care for their own bodies.”
― Ilchi Lee, Belly Button Healing: Unlocking Your Second Brain for a Healthy Life

“Earth Citizens have minds and hearts that know the Earth is the foundation of everything they do.”
― Ilchi Lee, Belly Button Healing: Unlocking Your Second Brain for a Healthy Life

“A system that has only one goal, the maximization of profits in an endless quest for the accumulation of capital on an ever-ending scale, and which thus seeks to transform every single thing on earth into a community with a price, is a system that is soulless; it can never have a soul, never be green. It can never stand still, but is driven to manipulate and fabricate whims and wants in order to grow and sell more... forever. Nothing is allowed to stand in its path.”
― Fred Magdoff, What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism

“Humans...The land provides everything that anybody would need. If you take only what you need, the land renews itself so that it can provide more. Medicines, water, plants, meat. In exchange, because we don’t really have anything the land wants, we honor it for what it gives us...When you take more than the land can provide, it stops giving. It can’t give. That’s what’s happened here. That’s what happens with humans.”
― David Alexander Robertson, The Barren Grounds

“It will be impossible for us to maintain the health of the organism called the earth unless we feel and care for other organisms as we do for ourselves—and unless we take action.”
― Ilchi Lee, Belly Button Healing: Unlocking Your Second Brain for a Healthy Life

“Earth Citizens recognize themselves as members of a planetary community, instead of as members of a single nation, religion, or organization. And, most importantly, they live that awareness.”
― Ilchi Lee, Belly Button Healing: Unlocking Your Second Brain for a Healthy Life

“Every time you see your belly button, remember that your life is connected with the life of the planet,”
― Ilchi Lee, Belly Button Healing: Unlocking Your Second Brain for a Healthy Life

“You are an indispensable and irreplaceable asset to the human family.”
― Ilchi Lee, Belly Button Healing: Unlocking Your Second Brain for a Healthy Life

“The Langhe is a paradise, a giardino: pears, apples, pomegranates, chestnuts. Everything you could want to eat falling from a tree. And above all, nocciole. You see those trees? Those are South American hazelnuts. Fatter. Rounder. There are also the smaller Turkish hazelnuts, but Ferrero Rocher uses the big ones to make Nutella. And wine- everywhere, wine. Barbera, Bonarda, Dolcetto, and the king, Nebbiolo, the king of all grapes.”
― Matt Goulding, Pasta, Pane, Vino: Deep Travels Through Italy's Food Culture

“Tous les jours arrivaient des avions et sur chacun, il y avait un message.
« Gardez votre eau bien propre. »
« N’empestez pas l’air, vous allez étouffer. »
« Comment allez-vous ? »
« Plantez des fleurs. »
« Ne coupez pas trop d’arbres, ils vous protègent. »
Et encore des messages, tous les jours un ou deux et même des fois plus, sur des avions de toutes les couleurs.
« Ne mettez pas trop d’engrais. »
« Ne vous lavez pas dans les ruisseaux avec vos gros savons rouges. »
« Ne vous en faites pas pour moi, je vais bien. »
Les gens s’habituaient lentement à cette nouvelle vie et suivaient tous les conseils des avions de papier.
Ils trouvaient aussi des trucs eux-mêmes et les trouvaient bien meilleurs que ceux du grand. C’était bien normal.”
― Christiane Duchesne, Le Grand qui Passe ou l'Histoire des Avions de Papier

“To save our dying earth, any government which is not environmentalist must go because on earth there are thousands of governments but there in only one earth! Continuing with the eco-traitor stupid governments means an environmental suicide! Enemies of nature are real barbarians and there is no place for these savages in our civilisation!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Unclean life is ungodliness.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Environmental cleanliness begins with individual desire to be clean.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Rice paddies climb the hillsides in wet, verdant staircases, dense woodlands trade space with geometric farmscapes, tiny Shinto shrines sprout like mushrooms in Noto forests. Villages seem to materialize from nowhere- wedged into valleys, perched atop hills, finessed into coastal corners. Pull over, climb out of your car, breathe deep for a taste of the finest air that will ever enter your lungs: green as a high mountain, salty and sweet, with just a whisper of decay in the finish.
Noto gained its reputation as the Kingdom of Fermentation because of this air. For most of its history, Noto was cut off from the rest of Japan, forced into a subsistence model that in many ways endures today. That was possible not only because of the bounty of Noto's fertile environment of trees, grasslands, fresh water, and sea, but because the air is rich with humidity that encourages the growth of healthy bacteria, the building blocks of fermentation.”
― Matt Goulding, Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture

“It was to emphasise the unity of humanity with nature and our need to accept ourselves as part of a larger continuum of life in this world.”
― R. Ogilvie Crombie, Meeting Fairies: My Remarkable Encounters with Nature Spirits

“Without the physical world, Ideas will not exist.”
― Joey Lawsin

“Humans cannot create what Nature can create and Nature cannot create what Humans can create.”
― Joey Lawsin, Originemology

“Through our belly buttons, not only can we connect with ourselves, but we also gain the wisdom to see the earth as an extension of ourselves.”
― Ilchi Lee, Belly Button Healing: Unlocking Your Second Brain for a Healthy Life

“The state of coastal waters reflects the nature of souls that surround it.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The term 'Pharmacoenvironmentology' seeks to deal with the environmental impact of drugs given to humans and animals at therapeutic doses”
― Syed Ziaur Rahman

“Caring for our environment is an integral part of spirituality. Therefore, let us invoke God not only in our closed meditation rooms but also try and see the divinity in every aspect of our environment.”
― Pulkit Sharma

“Every year we become more insular and more inward-focused, at once connected to an amazing virtual global multiplicity yet often detached from the world in any physical, emotional and moral sense. Every decision, from buying food to switching on a light, is mediated by so many logistical, institutional and technological layers that we have no sense of what our actions are responsible for. Our profound alienation from the earth continues.”
― Rob Cowen, Common Ground

“The environmentalist notion about a “Mother Earth” or “delicate balance in nature” is no more sophisticated or based on empirical evidence than is a belief in the “Garden of Eden”. All evidence points to a violently chaotic universe, where our “Mother Earth” is nothing buy a piece of phlegm spat out and being whirled around by our Sun. We are at the mercy of whatever catastrophe is unleashed upon our little piece of Sun hocker, and by no means living in some utopian conception of Eden.”
― A.E. Samaan

“The concepts I write about are those that I believe shape us, and why I see them as keenly relevant today. Each piece I write zeroes in on what I consider to be the most fundamental influences on human existence, and the social dynamics that radiate outward from them. Although I’ve treated these dimensions separately, they actually co-mingle and interact in both obvious and hidden ways.”
― Terry B. Clayton

“These rice balls represent the responsibilities we have for the future."
"The responsibilities we have for the future?!"
"Let's start off with the stewed hard clams. In the past, they could be found anywhere. But nowadays, most of the hard clams are being imported because they can no longer be caught due to land reclamation and pollution. Hard clams from the sea nearby have now become a rarity.
Stewed hard clams are an important cultural asset that has been passed down to us since the Edo Period. But at this rate, the hard clams will be lost, and the stewed hard clams will disappear from the menu of the future.
The same with matsutake. The production of matsutake is going down every year because the mountains are not looked after with care. People hardly go to the mountains to take care of them because of the decrease in population in the mountainous regions, as well as the decrease of people who use wood as fuel. At this rate, domestic matsutake will also disappear from our tables.
And then there's the katsuobushi. How many households have their own katsuobushi shaver these days? MSG and ready-made easy seasonings have become the mainstream of cooking. The most basic Japanese tradition of using katsuobushi and konbu to make dashi is starting to disappear. Even when you use katsuobushi, you use something that has already been shaved and packed."
"He's right. Young people who have experienced shaving a katsuobushi are a minority nowadays."
"In the old days, shaving the katsuobushi was the children's job."
"The current Japanese culinary culture is one of the richest in the world. But at the same time, we are continuing to lose something we are not meant to lose. And that is not right . It is our responsibility to pass on the important cultural elements from our ancestors down to the future.”
― Tetsu Kariya, The Joy of Rice

“Si sentiva fiero di essere un albero; [...] gli alberi rappresentavano veramente la vita, creavano le condizioni ideali e indispensabili per l’esistenza di tutti, almeno, così era nella porzione di mondo che Tronco grigio conosceva.”
― E.C. Bröwa, L'albero