The Environment Quotes
I'm always conscious of the context, the history, the specific environment of anything that I design and what it is going to be operating within.
Do not wait for a change of environment before you act; get a change of environment by action.
A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.
I am extremely intentional in making the environment around me playful and loving. I have great skill in that area.
I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.
Every way of life produces its own environment and in turn is influenced by that environment.
It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one's environment.
Yes, there's genetics. Yes, there are chromosomes. Yes, there's biology. Yes, there are environment, sociology, parenting, economics, class, and all of that. But there is something else, as well.
Entrepreneurs have a great ability to create change, be flexible, build companies and cultivate the kind of work environment in which they want to work.
To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music.
All you can do for another person is be an environment in which if they wanted to come up for air, they could.
My best advice for someone considering adopting a pet is to take the time to really consider your lifestyle, home environment and personal preferences.
Everyone is aware that most of the built environment today lacks a natural order, an order which presents itself very strongly in places that were built centuries ago
I like to go to the clubs. As long as the environment permits, and it's not too knuckleheadish, I'm there, I go to the club. Because that's where you get inspiration from.
You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.
The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.
Our task is not to make societies safe for globalization, but to make the global system safe for decent societies.
If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom.
We must, therefore, quit our roles as jailers and instead take care to prepare an environment in which we do as little as possible to exhaust the child with our surveillance and instruction
Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it.
It is the relationship between the physical environment and the environed organism, between physiography and ontography (to coin a term), that constitutes the essential principles of geography today.
Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.
I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.
The fragile weave of natural sound is being torn apart by our seemingly boundless need to conquer the environment rather than to find a way to abide in consonance with it.
The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.
It's incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.
Man is a predatory animal, and this aspect of his nature is nowhere better suited by environment than in the world of politics.
As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority.
Leaders create an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.
Your sister is the only creature on earth who shares your heritage, history, environment, DNA, bone structure, and contempt for stupid Aunt Gertie.
We don't understand the power of nature and the world because we don't live with it. Our environment is designed to sustain us. We are the domestic pets of a human zoo called civilization.
As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment.
The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive.
The need for a global structure of control in the form of a world environment court is now more urgent than ever before.
Unschooling is creating an environment in which children can learn easily and naturally all the time.
I always like my trailer or hotel room to have fresh flowers or pillows I find at a local flea market - anything to personalize the environment.
People love to be swept off their feet, to go into an environment where they've never been, to experience things they only dream about. And filmmaking offers that potential.
In a stagnant environment the body-mind creates its own adversity – disease and fantasy.
We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live.