The Environment Quotes

I think there's a lot of work to be done with our societies. My biggest passions are the environment and health. And when I say 'health' I mean the secrets behind health and our food system.

I love playing darker roles, or roles with meat. I feel very comfortable in that environment. I don't know why. I don't know what that says about me. I really enjoy doing complicated characters.

To be an environmentalist is to care about the environment and care about life on planet Earth.

I'm blessed to be in an environment where people are sincere.

I love dressing up. I'm from a huge African family and grew up in a really colorful place. The way I dress reflects my environment and wanting to take people into a fantasy world for half an hour.

Man is the Child of his Environment

Working anti-social shifts in a difficult environment is undoubtedly challenging. But even militant staff may privately concede that some of the working conditions they enjoy are unusually benign.

Generally people are nice, but it's so weird that it has made me more cautious. Just like anyone else, I like looking around at my environment, but now as I walk down the street I tend to look down.

I was young. I was 23 or 24. I just wasn't a fan of the politics of campaigning - of going into that environment and competing and trying to get into the good graces of the writers.

When I came to the West, I realized there was much hunger for spiritual teachings, but no environment for spirituality.

I just can really adapt to any kind of environment.

The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as dangerous as presenting them unfiltered.

Buying pollution credits is folly; it doesn't help the environment. Instead of using tax dollars to buy credits overseas, we'll use them at home.

Natural selection is a theory of local adaptation to changing environments. It proposes no perfecting principles, no guarantee of general improvement

In the 80s, we were still living in a kind of Cold War environment.

In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.

New Orleans is a unique environment.

The environment changed with Martha Stewart and Enron.

I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.

Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.

The environment is better and better for Democrats.

I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didnt realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.

What do we call the river? Every moment the water is changing, the shore is changing, every moment the environment is changing, what is the river then? It is the name of this series of changes.

'Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.

Ideally, I'd prefer never having to be in a test-screening environment. Some famous director said "The group is smart, the individuals are stupid," about the experience of a test screening.

One of the reasons why I chose to live in New York was that there is this sense of your environment constantly changing.

The idea of being in the desert is fundamental, but it's totally relative, and it's about that membrane: the way that one defines self versus the environment.

Environmentalists needed to stop imagining that they were representing a thing called Nature or the Environment, separate from us (e.g. humans) in politics.

We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment, there's no human race. We are in a state of global denial.

Not explicitly, no. Compared to this enormous, relentless evolutionary activity in the built environment, writing is small potatoes.

There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a very complex environment.

The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.

In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent.

I was always the kid who could draw. I had this talent, and it was the one thing that gave me some kind of dignity in the midst of my personal environment.

A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in Iraq.

It felt good, the whole family together on a sunny morning in a wholesome environment. If it hadn't been for the warshiping God part, he would have happily attended church on a regular basis.

Mexican people are very warm and friendly. I was able to adjust and adapt the new environment. They are very kind and helpful.

Fifteen years ago, if you said business will help save the environment people would have laughed at you. Today, I believe that is a serious proposition.

The problem when someone feels burned out, bored, unchallenged, or stifled by their work is not the job itself but rather the environment and playground rules given to them to do the job at hand.

We have lost sight of the dependence we have on nature in economics

I think you got to put your intimate relationship first. If you can keep your woman first and still love your children, you are going to create the healthiest environment.

Even getting one amazing shot in a pristine environment is what I live for.

He is a thermostat leader, not a thermometer...He does not react to the environment he's in. He changes every environment he's in.

It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek is like a beautiful opera, but way better.

The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.

A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common and ordinary. Existential blindness, of sorts.

Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.

Miss Dietrich is not so much a performer as a one-woman environment.

I'm a fiscal hawk. I vote against all taxes, but I do believe the environment, and climate change, is a bigger issue than fiscal deficits are as a risk to the nation.

I am always trying to find fabrics that are more friendly to the environment - working with Virgin Atlantic, they managed to research into this and find more eco fabrics.