The Environment Quotes

History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it.

Through pop music ideas, energies and resources can emerge that can help the audience release themselves from the unrelieving confinements of environment.

We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I've seen things you only read about and see on the news.

The nice thing about growing up in that kind of environment is you were exposed to so much -- music, plays, art exhibits, rock concerts.

The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people and their environment.

I love 5.1. Sometimes you can't squeeze everything in comfortably into a stereo picture. There is a lot more space in a 5.1 environment.

There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well.

When we had to survive on our wits, gather and kill our food from scratch and be more at the mercy of our environment than we are today, we probably had enough challenge to keep our brains healthy.

An honest, open environment can bring out the best in people.

By creating false environment of a war on drugs, and cruel and unusual punishment with these crimes, 50% of our U.S. population is in jail without having hurt anybody, mostly for drugs.

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.

It makes sense in that environment that you would hold on in the U.S. government to the people who know their way around this particular block.

Unfortunately, in the environment, I don't see as much willingness to invest heavily in R&D as I do in consumer technology. And that's a pity.

It is impossible to dissociate an individual from the environment of which he is a part. No story of achievement should ever be removed from its broader social context.

Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his attempts at controlling body and soul.

I think likelier targets are [Steve] Mnuchin, the Treasury pick. When you look at his dealings during the financial crisis, that's going to be a target rich environment, and [Rex] Tillerson.

Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment.

Each of us-adult or child-must earn nature's gift by knowing nature directly, however difficult it may be to glean that knowledge in an urban environment.

I prefer to be the noisiest thing in my environment thank you very much.

Being an American is such a rich environment, because there's so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you're able to see other people's experiences.

I think the house call is one of the ways I get an insight into the ways in which people live and the importance of environment in keeping people healthy.

It's easy to live in a fantasy world, and that's why I refuse to live in an isolated environment.

I became a writer in spite of my environments.

I was interested in the environment from when I was a little kid. I spent most of my time hunting and fishing and kayaking.

We're not protecting the environment for the sake of the fishes and the birds. We're protecting it for our own sake.

I always had an interest in the environment... to protect our planet... for the ocean to go on.

I used to feel competitive about a career, but now the only things I'm really passionate about are my family, the environment and Indians.

Some folks believe that global warming doesn't exist and that the environment doesn't need any help. I tend not to listen to them.

When I grew up, we didn't have a TV, and I think more families today have ambitions of getting out of their environment, such as sending their children to university.

My father died when I was nine, but I came from a stable family environment, which I think does contribute to being well-behaved.

Your environment (your home, your office, the magazines you read etc.) dramatically affects your levels of achievement

New ideas are not born in a conforming environment.

The freer the market is and the more respect you have for private property, the better the environment is protected.

The Cap and Trade Bill HR 2454 was voted on last Friday. Proponents claim this bill will help the environment, but what it really does is put another nail in the economy’s coffin.

The physical environment of L.A. is really beautiful. It's actually kinda fun, too, if you're working. It's just not really fun if you're not working and you don't know anybody.

The first twenty years of my life were wasted. I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.

Climate change and energy use are global problems - News Corp is a global company. Our operations affect the environment all over the world.

I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.

I think the environment is possibly our most worrying thing at the moment, so I think mountaintops are the place to live.

What I love about the environment we live in and we work in, is that there are no boundaries anymore. We can do a lot of different things. It keeps us going.

Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day.

I had a book come out several years ago, when there were no blogs. This is a mark to me about how the environment has changed.

Each of us as poets, as decent suffering human beings, has to find a way to run our lives that is compassionate toward one another and toward our environment.

Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment.

I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.

Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.

I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot

Not only do innovators have to deal with all of the fundamental challenges of innovation, they have to do so in an environment that often is implicitly hostile towards innovation.

We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise made and kept is difficult to overstate.

So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.