quotation on mankind & environment?

Question

any quotation on 'Man & Environment' by any eminent personality

Answer 1

following are the qoutes about environment :-

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
For 200 years we've been conquering Nature. Now we're beating it to death.
Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Take care of the earth and she will take care of you.

We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.

Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?

Remember when atmospheric contaminants were romantically called stardust?

When you defile the pleasant streams
And the wild bird's abiding place,
You massacre a million dreams
And cast your spittle in God's face.

following are quotes on mankind:-


Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. ~Albert Camus

Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.

In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with humans it is the other way around: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.

Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.

Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values.... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

Answer 2

"This terrestrial globe having once found existence, grew and developed in the matrix of the universe, and came forth in different forms and conditions, until gradually it attained this present perfection, and became adorned with innumerable beings, and appeared as a finished organization."
('Abdu'l-Bahá, Wilmette, Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1954. Chpt. XLVII, p. 212)

"Nature is God's Will and is its expression in and through the contingent world." (Bahá'u'lláh, Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh. Haifa, Bahá'í World Centre, 1978. p. 142)

"We cannot segregate the human heart from the environment outside us and say that once one of these is reformed everything will be improved. Man is organic with the world. His inner life moulds the environment and is itself also deeply affected by it. The one acts upon the other and every abiding change in the life of man is the result of these mutual reactions."
(Letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi, 17 February 1933, Compilation on Social and Economic Development, p. 4)

Answer 3

We all would in no way understand this habitat until eventually many of us find it as a existing affected person. Property can be balanced or perhaps tired, fertile or perhaps unwelcoming, rich or perhaps inadequate, lovingly nurtured or perhaps bled white. Our own existing thinking and regulations ruling this title and using property represent a great abuse of the very idea of individual house.... Currently you'll be able to homicide property regarding individual profit. You'll be able to abandon this corpse for all to find out and no-one cell phone calls this factory workers.

Answer 4

We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops.