The Environment Quotes

The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.

The need for a global structure of control in the form of a world environment court is now more urgent than ever before.

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.

Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.

Sometimes I think the environment in which we operate is entirely too secular. The fact that we have freedom of religion doesn't mean we need to try to have freedom from religion

Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.

Having an environment that is supportive is really important for success.

My environment can give me relief from sin and tension, only the Lord can cure it.

Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower those things to control us.

The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.

I believe it is important for people to create a healthy mental environment in which to accomplish daily tasks.

All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.

Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.

Environment is undoubtedly a secondary factor in the phenomena of life; it can modify in that it can help or hinder, but it can never create.

The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.

No company in the world would be satisfied with less sales, less customers or less jobs just because it's supposed to be good for the environment.

When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!

No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them.

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.

I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time.

The major cause for American Negroes intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racially genetic in origin and thus not remedial to a major degree by improvement in environment.

We know that when we protect our oceans we're protecting our future.

We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.

The most dominant cultural attributes maintained are the ones that are reinforced by your environment.

Several generations of slum environment will produce a slum heredity.

For me, my role is about unleashing what people already have inside them that is maybe suppressed in most work environments.

If your home environment is good and peaceful and easy, your life is better and easier.

Stress is the inability to adapt to a changing environment.

Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is inherently painful; introversion is not.

I believe we have a profound fundamental need for areas of the earth where we stand without our mechanisms that make us immediate masters over our environment.

If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it.

We work in an environment where your options are to do, you know, Batman 10, so when you get to do a movie that's a really great film like this, people really step up to the plate and enjoy it.

The regulation of genes is often more interesting than the genes themselves, and it's the environment that regulates genes.

The environment is the most important, the most fundamental, civil-rights issue.... Four out of every five toxic-waste dumps in America is in a black neighborhood.

Environmentalism is not about the environment. It is about people. It is about a vision for a better life-for people.

Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful.

Take good care of creation. St. Francis wanted that. People occasionally forgive, but nature never does. If we don't take care of the environment, there's no way of getting around it.

Just us as people, we're different around different people and in different environments.

You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are.

I will fly around the world doing good for the environment.

Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.

It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.

A disorganized workspace means disorganized work habits. A sloppy work environment equals sloppy results.

Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment.

If one's work environment isn't able to provide individuals with meaning, people will seek out one that does.

The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.

A lot of times, you feel like you're walking on eggshells in a creative environment, because everyone's having to watch out for egos so much of the time.

Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.

Continuing to do stand-up is always a challenge because the audiences and the environments in which you work very often differ.