Logo
The word

The word “wilderness” occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory. – René Dubos, The Wooing of Earth, 1980

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Environment
category

Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day… – Orison Swett Marden

Category:
Environment

Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible – or even sinful – that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes! – Paul MacCready,Jr.

Category:
Environment

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west… keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts. – Mahatma Gandhi

Category:
Environment

Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake…. During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast. – William Rathje, The Economist, 8 September 1990

Category:
Environment

Random Quotes

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. – Adlai E. Stevenson

Category:
Truth

It is no use saying, We are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. – Winston Churchill

Category:
best

Today, over half of Chinas undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of Americas undergraduates pursue these schools. – Cathy McMorris

Category:
Science

Find peace in the morning rush and you will have a good day. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

Category:
Morning