Environmental Quotes

“When first I arrived in the woods, I became aware of how unprepared I was for what I was about to experience." ”
― John-Paul Cernak, The Odyssey of a Hippie Marijuana Grower

“Mother trees have an effect on the oceans as well, as Katsuhiko Matsunaga and his team in Japan had confirmed. The leaves, when they fall in the autumn, contain a very large, complex acid called fulvic acid. When the leaves decompose, the fulvic acid dissolves into the moisture of the soil, enabling the acid to pick up iron. This process is called chelation. The heavy, iron-containing fulvic acid is now ready to travel, leaving the home ground of the mother tree and heading for the ocean. In the ocean it drops the iron. Hungry algae, like phytoplankton, eat it, then grow and divide; they need iron to activate a body-building enzyme called nitrogenase. This set of relationships is the feeding foundation of the ocean This is what feeds the fish and keeps the mammals of the sea, like the whale and the otter healthy.”
― Diana Beresford-Kroeger, To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest

“The organic and inorganic structures supporting human life are changing. Breathtaking technological developments, coupled with rapid advances in medicine, supported a dramatic explosion in the human population worldwide. Increases in human population placed pressure upon the habitat. Lack of foresight and commercial ogres fused to a consumptive consumer mentality fostered a radical reduction in habitat for other creatures and spawned a predictable environmental crisis. Commercial enterprises nimbly renamed the “environmental crisis” the “energy crisis,” effectively downplaying the dramatic cost inflicted upon the ecosystem in the name of preserving cheap energy sources for Americans. We live on the brink of impending disaster. Nonetheless, we must carry on. It is humankind’s greatest challenge to place our self-gratification in check in order to ensure that our species and other creatures survive the violent onslaught raging against the ecosystem. Despite the rapid expansion of new technology, which alters how human beings live and communicate with each other, the fundamental challenge of humanity remains consistent. Every generation must address how to live a purposeful life, one filled with joy and contentment.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“It's so simple," she says. "So obvious. Exponential growth inside a finite system leads to collapse. But people don't see it. So the authority of people is bankrupt." Maidenhair fixes him with a look between interest and pity. Adam just wants the cradle to stop rocking. "Is the house on fire?"

A shrug. A sideways pull of the lips. "Yes."

"And you want to observe the handful of people who're screaming, Put it out, when everyone else is happy watching things burn."

A minute ago, this woman was the subject of Adam's observational study. Now he wants to confide in her. "It has a name. We call it the bystander effect. I once let my professor die because no one else in the lecture hall stood up. The larger the group . . ."

"…the harder it is to cry, Fire?”
― Richard Powers

“As we change our worlds, we change our bodies. The old duality between environmental health and human health is obsolete.”
― James Hamblin, Clean: The New Science of Skin

“Vast areas of old forest have been cut, or chained down with bulldozers, to make way for cattle ranching and urban sprawl. People have planted orchards, established urban parks, landscaped their yards with blossoming trees, and created other unintended enticements amid the cities and suburbs. 'So bats have decided that, as their native habitat is disappearing, as climate is becoming more variable, and their food source is becoming less diverse, it's easier to live in an urban area.”
― David Quammen, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

“Yes, even if we make the world a clean world again, we definitely need another liveable world because having a backup is always clever!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Any control we exert is illusory and brief. Eventually, the pine forest builds up enough fuel and fire is far bigger than it would've been if we had allowed natural fire; the levee gives out in a hurricane, the plutonium builds up in someone's bones, the bacteria outsmart the antibiotics, and the soil becomes exhausted. Even the science of conservation, in its efforts to "manage" land, operates under an assumption that people control nature.”
― Trevor Herriot, Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds

“Every soul has a purpose;
A shared reason to be here.
To leave behind a better world,
Before time does disappear.”
― Luke Gracias, No Shadow Without Light

“Elon Musk is well on his way to being one of history’s greatest environmental terrorists.”
― Steven Magee

“Dead and distressed flying insects are the early warning sign that something is wrong with environmental radiation.”
― Steven Magee

“The rest of my life will be spent observing the progression of the underlying damage hypoxia has done to me. Residing below the 1,000 feet threshold where altitude sickness occurs in me is no magic cure for Magee’s Disease. It helps, but the underlying environmental biological damage is still there.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“All mass extinctions are preceded by environmental changes.”
― Steven Magee

“Shawn Nimau lives in the San Francisco Bay area. He is a retired police officer and an avid fly-fisherman who loves spending his free time outdoors.”
― Shawn Nimau

“The primary cause of illness and disease: Incorrect human environmental conditions.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“A hundred miles beyond the point, the farthest point, the most distant point on the horizon.
Out past the alkali flats and sinks; Misfit and Stillwater, Humboldt and Carson. Out over the mountains, ice age islands and archipelagos, Ichthyosaur, Columbian Mastodon boned talus slopes and scree fields. Beyond the Saltbrush, Bitterbrush, Creosote Plants and Rabbitbrush, petrified Redwood forests and Mount Mazama blowouts. Out over the playas, hoodos and springs, koi ponds and basins. Beyond the mustangs, horned lizards, whiptails and rattlers and over the abandoned mines; silver and gold, copper, bornite and cinnabar. Out past the hematite and jasper, chert and agate. Out over Lovelock, Spirit Cave and Wizard's Beach. Beyond the grinding rocks, diorite and granitic boulders cast adrift in a sea of sand, dust and wind. Beyond the Rye Grass, Ricegrass and Bunchgrass. Out over the land and into the distance and beyond. The distance of a thousand years, a million years, a century, a lifetime. A distance of roads forgotten and graves abandoned, misplaced Iris and Lilac the only indication of a person's passing. Out past Bonneville, Daggett, Donner and Walker. The two tracks, the single tracks, the deer tracks, coyote tracks, lizard tracks and no tracks at all.

Out over the land.....”
― P. Edmonds Young, The Leaving Time

“Taking action can also help reduce anxiety about the future. The compounding power of daily rituals can not only transform your personal relationship to the planet but also create a ripple effect from your life to the lives of people you know. Simply put, the Law of Simplicity & Consistency, the Law of Identity, and the Law of Amplification work together to create culture change.”
― Heather White, One Green Thing: Discover Your Hidden Power to Help Save the Planet

“I do like researching the biological toxicity of various environmental radiation sources, it keeps life interesting!”
― Steven Magee

“I do not foresee the pandemics ending until the environmental radiation has been returned to its natural levels.”
― Steven Magee

“There has never been a more important time in history to be an environmental radiation researcher.”
― Steven Magee

“It is unfortunate that the government chooses to be willfully incompetent in the field of environmental radiation.”
― Steven Magee

“There is no shortage of willful incompetence within the government regarding environmental radiation.”
― Steven Magee

“The report paints a particularly frightening picture of the Piedmont region, stretching from Raleigh through Charlotte to Atlanta, with the overall urban footprint nearly tripling in size by 2060. Why? Because of the lure of the New South boomtowns, the car-friendly culture, and the proximity to the mountains and seas. The so-called Piedmont Megaregion would become an uninterrupted, four-hundred-mile ribbon of concrete with Interstate 85 as its spine. Metro Atlanta alone would stretch from Alabama to South Carolina. In 2014, about 7 percent of the Southeast was covered in concrete. By 2060, 18 percent will be. A map of the futuristic landscape accompanies the report. On it, Atlanta looks like an angry fever blister anchoring the southwestern end of the corridor with smaller, yet equally angry red and yellow splotches (Greenville, Charlotte, Greensboro, Durham, Raleigh) running to the northeast. The editors fail to credit Hieronymus Bosch for the map.”
― Dan Chapman, A Road Running Southward: Following John Muir's Journey through an Endangered Land

“Climate change will change us.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Climate Flip - Climate Risk Reporting In Banks

“Electro-Magnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) is a condition that occurs in the minority of the population and they react to man-made environmental electromagnetic fields. Radio Wave Sickness (RWS) occurs in the majority of the population when they are exposed to a biologically toxic electromagnetic field. Both can make a person become mildly to severely sick with a wide variety of health conditions.”
― Steven Magee

“Environmental health is a rapidly emerging field of human biological science.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“I used to think being healthy was eating organic, but I now realize it is identifying and correcting nutritional deficiencies with supplements and identifying environmental sensitivities.”
― Steven Magee

“Seasons are but just environmental moods.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“We need to fix our relationship with the earth, before we can solve the world's problems.”
― Noel Jhinku

“In May 2023, I bought my first 5G phone for environmental electromagnetic radiation research.”
― Steven Magee