Read quote“I ask you to rejoice with me that it has been my good fortune to save from the inevitable encroachment of the future great city destined to arise on this plain, the most historic ground of all Maoriland.”
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About Environment
Human relationships with ecosystems, ecological stewardship, and the natural world.
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Words on Environment
Read quote“Climate, seasons, plenty, scarcity, distance, will shake hands, and out of the commingling will come enough for all.”
Read quote“A clean city with a sort of cosmopolitan atmosphere set in a bright landscape.”
Read quote“There shall be no more waste!”
Read quote“I believe that the global water crisis is the most important ecological and human threat of our time.”
Read quote“The answer to the question of who owns water is that no-one owns water.”
Read quote“我是来向环境科学工作者学习的，是来扫科盲来了！”
Read quote“This is the climate crisis, and this is just the beginning.”
Read quote“Our planet cannot be saved unless we leave fossil fuels in the ground where they belong.”
Read quote“Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Water, she is very useful and humble and precious and pure.”
Read quote“What reasons have you to envy anything?”
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Quote Stories about Environment
When the Marsh Began to Ring
Edda’s first warning bell vanished into the reeds. To make a sound the marsh could carry, she had to stop repeating what she knew and begin listening to everyone around her.
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Where the Water Keeps Its Secrets
Sena wanted the youth science prize badly enough to count every creature twice. Then the tide pools began losing the places where those creatures lived.
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What the River Carried Back
When her handmade lanterns fall apart before the river festival, twelve-year-old Nara learns that a bright idea can become stronger when everyone helps rebuild it.
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