36 Ice Quotes That Remind Us To Protect Our Environments Diversity

"Like fragile ice anger passes away in time."

"Climate change is not just about carbon dioxide levels and melting polar ice caps. It is about our public health and protecting our Earth for future generations."

"Have a dream, chase it down, jump over every single hurdle, and run through fire and ice to get there."

"Winter forms our character and brings out our best."

"Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured."

"Our solar system is actually a wild frontier, teeming with different, diverse places: planets and moons, millions of objects of ice and rock."

"People travel and hunt on the sea ice - in Alaska, they hunt in skin boats for bowhead whales; in Greenland, they hunt with dogsleds. The ice is their highway. The ice is also the ecosystem in which marine mammals and terrestrial animals such as polar bears exist."

"There's just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on."

"It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it."

"Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness."

"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."

"There's nothing pretty about ice. Ice grows nothing. But we've got this in our minds that we've got to make everything cold."

"Mirrors are ice which do not melt: what melts are those who admire themselves in them."

"We all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer. The poor get it in the winter."

"When you're on the ice, you have very little time, you see very little, and everything happens really quick."

"I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns."

"Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is time for home."

"Ice has a social life. Its changeability shapes the culture, language and stories of those who live near it."

"Meteorite hunting is not for wimps. The best places to look are also the coldest and windiest. You need very old ice, and you need wind, lots of it, strong and unrelenting. Antarctica fits the bill."

"It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia."

"Everything's borne out of human experience, of course - rejection, humiliation, poverty, whatever. People aren't born bad, no matter how harsh the circumstances. There is a person in there, and that person is not made of ice."

"Ice burns, and it is hard to the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost."

"In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed."

"The thinner the ice, the more anxious everyone is to see whether it will bear."

"It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. "

"The human life is all one thing, like a blade tracing loops on the ice: a little kid, a twenty-three-year-old infantry sergeant, a middle-aged writer knowing guilt and sorrow."

"Fire and Ice Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice."

"Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude."

"Thou art all ice. Thy kindness freezes."

"Hear! hear! screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, 'winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it.'"

"As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we'll survive our own ingenuity."

"What most people know but don't realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn't there, we'd be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered."

"For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive - and thrive. 'Harsh' to us is 'home' for them. Take away the ice and snow, increase the temperature by even a little, and the realm that makes their lives possible literally melts away."

"As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet."

"Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones."

"The climate has always changed - after all, we've had numerous ice ages without human influence - but human activity has undoubtedly exacerbated Earth's natural trends beyond its capacity to adjust."