sayings of enivronment

We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.

A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it.

In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

The environment is everything that isn’t me.

Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

The environment, after all, is where we all meet, where we all where we all have a mutual interest. It is one thing that all of us share. It is not only a mirror of ourselves, but a focusing lens on what we can become.

The most political act we do on a daily basis is to eat, as our actions affect farms, landscapes, and food businesses.

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

The U.S. goverment was the first to start an automobile junkyard on the Moon.

Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

Modern technology…..Owes ecology….An apology.

Any fool can destroy trees.

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

Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend ?

When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.

All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

I am the earth. You are the earth. The Earth is dying. You and I are murderers.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

Environmental diasters

Top 10 Environmental Disasters Caused by Humans

Written by: Catalogs.com Editorial Staff

April 3, 2011
Filed Under Environment

Tags: disaster

Contributed by Cara Hartley, Catalogs.com Top 10 Guru

Although many environmental disasters can controversially be blamed on human beings, there are a few catastrophes that without a doubt remain the fault of our species.

Here is the sad list of the top ten environmental disasters caused by humans:

10. Bhopal Disaster

20,000 people have died to date as a result of the chemical gas spill in Bhopal, India. In 1984 catastrophe struck after a cloud of methyl isocyante gas erupted from a Union Carbide (a recent subsidiary of Dow) pesticide factory. None of the six systems in place to detect the leak were operational at the time of the accident, and over 120,000 people still suffer from potentially fatal health problems due to the poisonous gas that has seeped into ground and well water sources. Today the effects of this disaster are still felt by the citizens of the area, who continue to suffer from cancers, respiratory disorders and ill health.

9. Overfishing

Overfishing has had many detrimental effects on the environment, from changing the ecosystem to polluting the waters that so many creatures depend on for life. The climate of our world depends on the health of the ocean for stability, and overfishing has caused the populations of all fish to decrease over the last twenty years.

8. Rainforest destruction

Over 50% of the world’s animals and plants come from Brazil’s rainforests, which also create 40% of the world’s oxygen. Ranchers, farmers and loggers are responsible for the majority of rainforest destruction, mowing down over 10,000 acres of forest each year. Deforestation releases green house gases, which are readily contributing to climate change on a global level. As oxygen is crucial to the ability of all species to survive, rainforest destruction presents a threat of epic magnitude to every being on the planet.

7. Tennessee coal ash spill

The Tennessee Coal Ash Spill was the largest industrial spill in North America. In December of 2008, the dike surrounding an 80-acre mound of fly ash, the remnants of coal production, collapsed. The result was a horrendous flood of one billion gallons of coal slurry that covered 3,000 acres of Tennessee countryside. The ash contained arsenic, lead and selenium which poisoned the air and water. The failure of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston Fossil Plant is an admonition to those who believe that our continued reliance on fossil fuels has no consequences.

6. Garbage Island

Known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, this island of floating garbage in the Pacific Ocean is roughly the size of Texas. The patch is 80% plastic and is estimated to weigh some 3.5 million tons. It is located between San Francisco and Hawaii, at the cross-center of the North Pacific Gyre, which is a set of revolving currents. The island of trash is a striking reminder that what we choose to throw away can come back to haunt us for generations.

5. Love Canal

Love Canal was originally meant to be a trench between the upper and lower Niagara Rivers that would supply energy to the inhabitants of a small Niagara Falls community. However, when Nikola Tesla discovered how to transmit electricity over large distances, Love Canal became a deserted dream. In the 1920’s the canal was turned into a chemical dump-site. The canal was covered in dirt and sold to the city by the appropriately named Hooker Chemical Company. 100 homes and a school were built on the site in the late 1950’s, but in 1978, the site exploded. The families on the site were eventually evacuated, but not before an alarming rate of miscarriages and birth defects brought on by proximity to toxic chemicals occurred.

4. Three Mile Island

The most serious nuclear emergency in U.S. history occurred near Middletown, Pennsylvania on March 29th, 1979. Safety mechanisms put in place to prevent meltdown failed, and the result was a change in the way the nuclear industry and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspected nuclear plants. Although there have been no reports of increased cancer rates or ill health effects due to radiation exposure, the meltdown changed forever the way the public view the cost and benefit of nuclear power.

3. Exxon-Valdez oil spill

On March 24th, 1989, the Exxon-Valdez oil tanker struck a reef off the coast of Alaska, causing a total of 11,000,000 gallons of crude oil to leak into the Prince William Sound. The leaked oil spread across 470 miles of water, killing countless wildlife. The clean-up cost was $2.1 billion, and took three years. Exxon has thus far paid $925 million of the $5.125 billion in damages that courts have attempted to charge the company for.

2. BP Oil spill

In April, 2010, a blowout on the Deep Horizon rig killed 11 men and caused an oil leak that spread towards Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida coastlines. Millions of gallons of oil spilled into the ocean, killing turtles, fish and birds. The oil spill also had a negative impact on communities that made their living off of fishing and tourism. The BP oil spill was a tragedy that should never have happened, particularly not twenty years after the lesson of the Exxon-Valdez spill.

1. Chernobyl

Chernobyl was the worst man-made environmental disaster in history. On April 25th, 1986, an explosion at Reactor #4 caused a fire that burned for 10 days. The radioactive fallout from the explosion covered tens of thousands of square miles, and caused the permanent evacuation of more than a million people. Over 100,000 people have died as a result of this disaster, and birth defects, thyroid cancer and tumors continue to plague the inhabitants of surrounding areas.

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Manipuri from Manipur

This dance style was originally called jogai which means circular movement. In ancient texts it has been compared to the movement of the planets around the sun.
It is said that when Krishna, Radha and the gopis danced the Ras Leela, Shiva made sure that no one disturbed the beauty of the dancing. Parvati, the consort of Lord Shiva also wished to see this dance, so to please her he chose the beautiful area of manipur and re-enacted the Ras Leela. Hundreds of centuries later, in the 11th century, during the reign of Raja Loyamba, prince Khamba of the Khomal dynasty and Princess Thaibi of the Mairang dynasty re-enacted the dance and it became known as Lai-Haraoba, the most ancient dance of Manipur.

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This north Indian dance form is inextricably bound with classical Hindustani music, and the rhythmic nimbleness of the feet is accompanied by the table or pakhawaj. Traditionally the stories were of Radha and Krishna, in the Natwari style (as it was then called) but the Moghul invasion of North India had a serious impact on the dance. The dance was taken to Muslim courts and thus it became more entertaining and less religious in content. More emphasis was laid on nritta, the pure dance aspect and less on abhinaya (expression and emotion).