The Environment Quotes

Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.

It is now well understood that humans ultimately depend on the health of the planet for their wellbeing.

That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.

In both places [Paraguay and Newfoundland] people rise despite everything - both are pretty tough environments.

Well I'm not convinced that expanding uranium mining is in the best interests of the country and the best interests of its environment.

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The situation is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.

Clutter forces the brain to consume energy. Create uncluttered environments instead.

A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.

It's not a choice between our environment and our economy; it's a choice between prosperity and decline.

I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You dont pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it works.

So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.

To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.

All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body--like radiation, cancer, and all.

Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.

We need a race to the top so that we have policies and regulations that protect human rights, the environment and that reduce poverty.

I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it.

How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?

Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.

The education of women is the best way to save the environment.

Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.

We assume that we’re masters of our environment, rather than being a part of it.

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

It's also the environment that determines a considerable part of the growth and development of children.

I believe in maximum flexibility, so I reserve the right to change my position on any subject when the external environment relating to any topic changes too.

Lead a life of your own design, on your own terms -not one that others, or the environment have scripted for you.

If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling.

Because the living environment is what really sustains us.

Just because we can't sell shares in nature doesn't mean it has no value.

Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies.

I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.

A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.

Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.

Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense; it has particular ways of catching an environment.

I think we should all be more concerned about the environment and the effects of global warming. It will be pointless to talk about all the issues that divide us when it's 300 degrees outside.

I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity.

The things that prey on my mind in London seem to disappear as soon as I find myself in a different environment. Survival mode kicks in.

We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.

The fact that the federal government is the nation's greatest environmental villain has not stopped activists from reflexively turning to politicians to “protect the environment.”

A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion.

We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.

We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets.

I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It wasn't my environment.

My aim is to create a happy environment where the players are working hard, but enjoying themselves. You've got to enjoy yourself, and you've got to have a bit of fun as well.

If your environment is not to your liking, change it!

I'd be cheating everyone here, the staff and rest of my teammates, if I wasn't able to stay on top of my work. It was almost like therapy, to come back and get in an environment I'm comfortable with.

Butterflies may be better indicators of the health of our environment than birds.

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us