Yaya Toure Quotes

The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.

For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish.

I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.

Environmentalism is a way of seeing our place within the biosphere.

Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment.

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.

The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.

Any living thing that hopes to live on the earth must fit into the ecosphere or perish.

Nature is simply the environment on earth in which man finds himself, and to treat it as a separate being in the image of man is sheer nonsense.

Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power.

The environment is everything that makes up our surroundings and affects our ability to live on the earth - the air we breathe, the water that covers most of the earth's surface, the plants and animals around us, the overall condition of our planet, and much more. Protecting the environment is really important to everyone's welfare - that of our children, as well as that of the future generations.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus.

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.

Everyone knows the link between the environment and their own health.

One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.

Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.

If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it.

The earth is a fickle place for all life, not least the human project of civilization.

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

Clean air and water, a diversity of animal and plant species, soil and mineral resources, and predictable weather are annuities that will pay dividends for as long as the human race survives - and may even extend our stay on Earth.

The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn't live without them.

We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so... we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you know, who cares if you're going to make a profit if everybody's too dead or glowing in the dark to be able to purchase anything.