The Environment Quotes

Since the individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining, the average man must take to daydreaming.

I don't think you can be a credible, modern candidate for president without making the environment a major part of your platform.

Christine Todd Whitman had to resign as the head of the EPA. You know, when the governor of New Jersey decides the environment is hopeless, you gotta really think that one through.

To see a comedy in an environment where you're surrounded by other people that are laughing is great. That's probably more satisfying than just watching it by yourself.

It's not just about the current economic environment. History shows that slashing budgets always leads to recession.

To me the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and war...I'm more worried about global warming than I am of any major military conflict.

The environment has become a political, polarizing issue.

When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice.

Any discussion of investment or putting monetary value on the environment must start with the populations who rely on those resources.

Theres no environment I can think of that would have remained constant enough to preserve dinosaur DNA.

It is true that the environment does have an influence but what has much greater effect on the artist is love or hatred.He uses his setting to express these things.

The improved means to the unimproved end.

When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community.

As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.

When you put yourself in environments that continually test you, that's where all the good stories come from. That's where the jokes come from is from the shitty parts.

We do not have to choose between a healthy environment and a healthy economy.

We can design things that learn, so you can grow an intelligence by creating an environment and creating things that just do it a million time faster than we do.

In a male-dominated environment, things are very macho, and you can't show weakness.

It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment.

In this uncertain world, the food is disposable. It is the wrappings that are permanent.

There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.

An Active mind didn't need distraction in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers.

As an artist, you take things from your environment, and there's going to be a style coming out of your environment.

Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment.

Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.

The greatest danger hanging over our children and grandchildren is initiation of changes that will be irreversible on any time scale that humans can imagine.

The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.

I think unscripted variety television may or may not get a bad rap now, but it is a fabulous environment. It is exactly who I am, and there's so much creativity there to express.

There needs to be the support and help around you, even when you may have an unhealthy home environment.

The Ilan-Lael Foundation is an arts education foundation celebrating nature and the aesthetic of the built environment for its ability to help us see ourselves and our world in new ways.

Be assured that our individual actions, collectively, make a huge difference.

If we allow the destruction of the environment, we can see the terrorists have utterly won, and are destroying the future of our children and grandchildren. We must not let that happen.

You have to create a bespoke cultural environment. I know this may be a kind of thing that an old person says, but I feel to quite a large extent I was reared by the TV I watched.

Bush fell off his bike while mountain biking on his ranch over the weekend. He hit a rough spot in the trail. There's a switch - the environment hurting Bush.

When I watch like The Office I'm fascinated because most of America works in an environment where they see the same eight people every day.

If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.

I'm pretty adaptable and can adjust to any environment.

If you can create an environment where people are invited to do their best work and the best ideas always win, then the project itself will win.

I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation.

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.

Wherever there is a suitable environment for the fulfilment of Life, it will fulfil itself.

There's plenty of anecdotal evidence that most champions are born into certain environments and encouraged early. Then, later on, they might get some assistance from their federations.

Sustainability is growth based on forms and processes of development that do not undermine the integrity of the environment on which they depend

We must continue working for a better world. I want my grandchildren to live in a society with a spirit of independence, a society that puts people before profits and looks after the environment.

Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.

Since this was the first and only series I had ever produced, I was unaware of what the "Normal" environment was for a studio. I tried to run it as I did in my SF studio.

Everyone knows the rules of three's, you can survive three weeks without food, but not in this environment.

I grew up in a very bohemian environment in southern Sweden, so I was always, always, always in black jeans.

It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was a good environment for an aspiring writer, with lots of events and authors appearing.

Like living creatures, automobiles expired when their environment became saturated with their own excreta. We ourselves are living creatures. We don't want the same to happen to us.