Associations to the word «Environmentalism»

Wiktionary

ENVIRONMENTALISM, noun. (medicine) (social sciences) A theory that views environment, rather than heredity or culture, as the important factor in the development of an individual or group.
ENVIRONMENTALISM, noun. A political and social ideology that seeks to prevent the environment from degradation by human activity.

Dictionary definition

ENVIRONMENTALISM, noun. The philosophical doctrine that environment is more important than heredity in determining intellectual growth.
ENVIRONMENTALISM, noun. The activity of protecting the environment from pollution or destruction.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne