O6 Environmental Quotes & Sayings

Go out in the early days of winter, after the first cold snap of the season. Find a pool of water with a sheet of ice across the top, still fresh and new and clear as glass. Near the shore the ice will hold you. Slide out farther. Farther. Eventually you'll find the place where the surface just barely bears your weight. There you will feel what I felt. The ice splinters under your feet. Look down and you can see the white cracks darting through the ice like mad, elaborate spiderwebs. It is perfectly silent, but you can feel the sudden sharp vibrations through the bottoms of your feet.
That is what happened when Denna smiled at me. — Patrick Rothfuss

In this world only the paranoid survive. — Dean Koontz

In his scientific genius, man has wrought material miracles and has transformed his world. He has harnassed nature and has developed great civilizations. But he has never learned very well how to live with himself. The values he has created have been predominantly materialistic; his spiritual values have lagged far behind. He has demonstrated little spiritual genius and has made little progress toward the realization of human brotherhood. In the contemporary atomic age, this could prove man's fatal weakness. — Ralph Bunche

I know how tough engineering school can really be, but it's worth it. — Brian Krzanich

And there you stand -
Far away from the distant reality,
Far away in my breathing dream,
Far away in the traces of my livid eyes,
Far away in my hostile fantasy. — Debatrayee Banerjee

Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding. — Susan Cain

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness. — Narendra Modi

We go on dating from Cold Fridays and Great Snows; but a little colder Friday, or greater snow would put a period to man's existence on the globe. — Henry David Thoreau

The best way to make a long story short is to stop listening. — Evan Esar

He was just upset Dad liked you the best. I didn't care. Everybody has favorite things. Mom liked me best anyway. — Maggie Stiefvater

Failing to warn the citizens of a looming weapon of mass destruction- and that's what global warming is- in order to protect oil company profits, well, that fits for me the definition of treason. — Bill Maher

Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence. — Madeleine L'Engle