The Environment Quotes

We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused

The environment is so fundamental to our continued existence that it must transcend politics and become a central value of all members of society.

You must somehow understand that we as horsemen can do very little to teach the horse. What we can do is to create an environment in which he can learn.

God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.

Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.

We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.

It is only logical that the pauperization of our soul and the soul of society coincide with the pauperization of the environment. One is the cause and the reflection of the other.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Machines that fit the human environment, instead of forcing humans to enter theirs, will make using a computer as refreshing as taking a walk in the woods.

Ye may have skill in the nature of things, yet nature can do more than all physicians put together; and God is far more above nature.

The framework of a symphony must be so strong that it forces you to follow it, regardless of the environment and circumstances.

True happiness is always available to us, but first we have to create the environment for it to flourish.

Show me a religion that doesn't care about compassion. Show me a religion that doesn't care about stewardship of the environment. Show me a religion that doesn't care about hospitality.

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.

If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn, and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.

Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally.

Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.

If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we will have the equality of extinction.

I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

The greatest lesson came with the realization that good food cannot be reduced to single ingredients. It requires a web of relationships to support it.

The Earth is what we all have in common.

I do care a great deal about the environment but my real work and my greatest challenge is trying to overcome deceits that end up jeopardizing public health and safety.

The child should live in an environment of beauty.

Every person has the inalienable right to a decent environment.

Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.

I'm thankful for the talent in which God gave me and I'm thankful for the environment that he placed me.

To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment....would result in the demolition of society.

Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.

One of the big lessons from behavioral economics is that we make decisions as a function of the environment that we're in.

Health is not luck. We have an innate ability to maintain good health if we establish the optimal environment for healing.

I don't know how you can live on the planet and not care about the environment. It's our globe, we share it.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.

Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life.

You are not defined by your environment unless you allow yourself to be.

I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.

Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.

Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed the very environment it is itself sustained by.

Veganism affirms what is best for us, what is best for the animals, and what is best for the environment. Everywhere you look, you find veganism entwined with what is best.

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different.

I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.

I feel vulnerable on mountains. It's an uncontrolled, raw environment. It's very - it's truly humbling.

The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response.

The world's environment can no longer handle beef.

A manager's ability to turn meetings into a thinking environment is probably an organization's greatest asset.

What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated.