The Environment Quotes

In nature nothing exists alone.

Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.

The environment is in us, not outside of us. The trees are our lungs, the rivers our bloodstream. We are all interconnected, and what you do to the environment ultimately you do to yourself.

The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.

A good teacher creates an environment which allows the student to succeed.

The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself.

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.

It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.

Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that.

No matter what is the environment around you, it is always possible to maintain your brand of integrity

Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they are raised in an aberrant or twisted environment.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.

Lose yourself in nature and find peace

I came from an environment where if you see a snake, you kill it. At General motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is to hire a consultant on snakes.

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.

No one ever sees the sleepless nights, the years of studying and 14-hour days earning your dues. I spent three years isolated in an academic environment to be the best actor I could.

A stage setting is not a background; it is an environment.

The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many rules, that will stifle innovation.

[Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It's more useful.

We're not products of our environments, we're products of our expectations.

Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.

It would be unwise to say the least, irresponsible of us at the TSA, at the Homeland Security Department not to evolve our technology to match the changing threat environment that we inhabit.

No one person has to do it all but if each one of us follow our heart and our own inclinations we will find the small things that we can do to create a sustainable future and a healthy environment.

As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment.

We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.

In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules.

You can rise above it. This country gives you opportunity if you want to take it, so don't blame your environment. I look down on people who use their environment as a crutch.

In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules ... but it's impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable period of time.

My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things can survive.

We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.

In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.

The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.

There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation.

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.

Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil.

Great design is a multi-layered relationship between human life and its environment.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

Researches at Yale found a connection between brain cancer and work environment. The No. 1 most dangerous job for developing brain cancer? Plutonium hat model.

Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician.