The Environment Quotes

One thought that occurs to me is that men will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that will suit them better.

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

There's conflict on every continent, the poverty rate is increasing, the environment's a wreck, and I'm not supposed to be affected?

I grew up on movie sets, I'm comfortable on sets. A movie set is like a circus. I don't understand why moviemaking has to be such an insane environment.

I avoid banks and I've never been in any sort of corporate environment at all.

A being whose activities are associated with others has a social environment. What he does and what he can do depend upon the expectations, demands, approvals, and condemnations of others.

My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this.

I have faith in God and not that we have evolved from a rock, not from worshiping the environment or endangered bugs.

The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).

Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself.

A strong player, which has the sufficient critical mass, can withhold pressure better and create a more stable environment that benefits shareholders as well as employees.

Green is the new black: make the environment part of your personal brand.

Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.

One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.

I love raising awareness and encouraging people to take action for World Environment Day, because it demonstrates how individual voices can become a global chorus for change.

People of character don’t allow the environment to dictate their style.

We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions.

I'm concerned about the ocean and the environment. And I love whales.

The environment can actually affect gene expression.

Nature did all things well

Let us think about 'zero-defect and zero effect'. Zero defect in production with no adverse effect on the environment.

I am a big lover of the environment. I actually come from Maine, which is pretty much all environment.

Suppose that we believe what we are taught. . . . destroying the environment and militarizing outer space are rational policies . . . of institutional lunacy.

And in most highly academic environments in the United States, no one fails anything.

The environment does not determine man's culture; it merely sets the outer limits and at the same time offers opportunities.

When you're trapped in an abusive home environment you can feel completely hopeless and lost. Remember that situations can change with time, and that it won't be this way forever.

It's very important to set your place in a concrete environment. I think Chekhov said that the important thing when you have a play or any kind of novel is to set the roots in a concrete place.

Could your medicine be a cell, not a pill? Could your medicine be an organ that's created outside the body? Could your medicine be an environment?

Creating a warm, caring, supportive, encouraging environment is probably the most important thing you can do for your family.

Cher is really down-to-earth, very nurturing, incredibly funny and fun, a great storyteller, and creates a great environment on the set.

We humans still have a long way to go with learning to live harmoniously with our environment and its wildlife.

Graduate school is a really supportive environment, but in a way, it was only when that support vanished that I flourished.

My work is inspired by my passion for human rights issues and the environment, and by my love of family, music and nature.

To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a unity and a prayer. Unity within and without.

Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences.

Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon

I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.

It took me awhile to not be ashamed to be a poet in the business environment, and to be a business person in the poet environment.

Quite often when you help poor people, they don't think about the environment. They think about survival.

Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.

For me, environment is all. Place — as I was saying about my students — is absolutely essential.

I study English literature but my friends are doing psychology and things like that. No one cares about acting there. It's not competitive and it's a nice environment for me.

Transformation always and necessarily calls for a transformation of oneself and one's environment. But I don't see that happening. People are stuck with their own positions that never change.

I think the dangers of the impact of GMOs on the environment are undebatable. Genetically modified crops are tied to the chemicals sprayed on them.

If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear.

...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can transform the same people into matchless performers.

All my life I'd been told what to believe about politics, coloreds, being a girl. But with Constantine's thumb pressed in my hand, I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.

Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.

If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.