Quotes About Our Environment

#1. We're all products of our environment. The key is not to fall.

Lamar Odom

#2. The earth is not just our environment. The earth is our mother.

Dalai Lama

#3. If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia.

Yehuda Berg

#4. Religious ideas such as the idea of God have functioned as regulative ideals for us to aspire after: we too could become unified and capable subjects; we too could learn how to know the world and reshape our environment to meet our own needs.

Don Cupitt

#5. We are losing our environment so rapidly.

Stefanie Powers

#6. This festival ... the festival of Makar Sankranti ... is our way of showing love towards nature. While global warming poses a serious threat to the world and mankind, this message of love for our environment is extremely essential.

Narendra Modi

#7. If we can't say "thy will be done" from the bottom of our hearts, we will never know any peace. We will feel compelled to try to control people and control our environment and make things the way we believe they ought to be.

Timothy Keller

#8. We live in a Patriarchal society meaning the masculine side of our mind dominates our environment. That means both men and women are identified with their masculine rational logical mind.- Author Serena Jade

Serena Jade

#9. Being in nature refreshes us by ... allowing us to surrender to involuntary attention: the effortless and often enjoyable noticing of sensory stimuli in our environment.

Jennifer Ackerman

#10. The belief in a political Utopia is especially dangerous. This is possibly connected with the fact that the search for a better world, like the investigation of our environment, is (if I am correct) one of the oldest and most important of all the instincts.

Karl Popper

#11. We are the collateral damage of carnism; we pay for it with our health, our environment, and our taxes - $7.64 billion a year, to be exact.

Melanie Joy

#12. Energy consumption matters both to our environment and our economy.

John Baldacci

#13. Creativity is an inherently human trait that allowed us to dominate our environment and make our way to the top of the food chain.

Harry Hoover

#14. The determinism of the physical laws simply reflects the determinism of the method of inference. This soulless nature of the scientific world need not worry those who are persuaded that the main significances of our environment are of a more spiritual character.

Arthur Stanley Eddington

#15. Sustainability is treating ourselves and our environment as if we are to live on this earth forever.

Arron Wood

#16. If we are to be women in power, then it must be power on very different terms. we have to find a new source of energy. New structures of power. Ones that don't deplete us or our environment. We need to run our lives on sustainable energy.

Lucy H. Pearce

#17. We're manufacturing to meet the demands of our own people but, in the meantime, for the entire world as well, and that definitely put a lot of extra pressure on our environment.

Ma Jun

#18. You do design because you feel it inside; you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment.

Massimo Vignelli

#19. So key for making smart decisions is a mindset that actively monitors and is open to shifting tides and new information, one that is acutely aware that the interplay between our environment and its outcomes is ever in flux.

Noreena Hertz

#20. The more I learn about the human body, our environment, and the universe, the more it increases my faith.

Benjamin Carson

#21. Our environment encourages us not to be philosophers but partisans.

William James

#22. I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.

Aaron Peirsol

#23. Once, I thought happiness was the sizzle in the pan. But it's not. Happiness is the spice - that fragile speck, beholden to the heat, always and forever tempered by our environment.

Sasha Martin

#24. I think it's important to watch out for our environment and to be careful.

Joe Jonas

#25. When giant companies wanted more tax loopholes, Washington got it done. When huge energy companies wanted to tear up our environment, Washington got it done. When enormous Wall Street banks wanted new regulatory loopholes, Washington got it done. No gridlock there!

Elizabeth Warren

#26. It is the law of Spirit that we must be that which we would draw to us. If we would draw to us love, we must be love, be loving and kind; if we would have peace and harmony in our environment, we must establish it within ourselves.

Charles Fillmore

#27. Conservation of energy also protects our environment.

Lamar S. Smith

#28. We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.

Nicholas Negroponte

#29. Reclaim our environment from those who would destroy it with their predatory economic behavior.

Dennis Kucinich

#30. Help save our environment.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#31. A reduction in meat consumption is the most powerful single act that you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources.

John Robbins

#32. We must conserve our environment and pass it on to our children in as good or better condition than it was passed to us.

Mark Kennedy

#33. We need a strong farm bill that gives assistance to farmers during times of drought, creates markets for local goods, protects our environment, and helps struggling families bridge the gap between hard times and a full dinner table.

Keith Ellison

#34. Ultimately it is by harnessing the natural economic forces which drive society that the pollution tax offers us an opportunity to exert greater control over our environment.

Greg Hunt

#35. Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

Paul Tsongas

#36. The most important thing to realize is we're not blank slates at birth. We don't start off with nothing in our heads, and then get imprinted entirely by our environment. There's something in our heads on the day we're born, and then we grow up and make choices.

Jonathan Haidt

#37. The church must acclimate to a changing world, or she will destine herself to irrelevance or even extinction ... One of those dramatic changes in our environment is the shift from words to images. To do church in a way that is entirely text driven is the kiss of death.

Erwin McManus

#38. I think the nomads really give us inspiration about how we can live in harmony with our environment.

Tim Cope

#39. The right to have our environment protected for the benefit of present and future generations is our most important human right.

Lewis Gordon

#40. Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life.

George Santayana

#41. Most of the plants grown to be fed to farm animals are heavily saturated with pesticides and herbicides and have been genetically modified, all of which contributes to the pollution and destruction of our environment, which harms us all.

Sharon Gannon

#42. Our task is not to yield to the pressure of our environment

Sunday Adelaja

#43. This fight against drilling in the Arctic Refuge is a fight about our principles. Its about standing up for our environment, our families and our future, and I wont give up this fight.

John F. Kerry

#44. Humans are a great survivor species but our survival will be pretty grim if all of the plants and animals we depend on die out. That's why any human survival strategy has to include a plan to maintain our environment roughly in the state that it's in now.

Annalee Newitz

#45. Can we really expect adequate funding for programs to clean up our environment and care for people's basic needs as long as the socially essential work of caretaking and cleaning is relegated to women for little or no pay?

Riane Eisler

#46. As our technological capacities continue to increase and our environment becomes ever more fragile and endangered, we find that changes to the Earth that used to take ten thousand years now take a fraction of that.

Robert David Steele

#47. 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.

Howard Zahniser

#48. I'm not a scientist. If there is a risk to our environment, there will be no fracking.

Nicola Sturgeon

#49. As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.

Marshall McLuhan

#50. The ultimate aim of the scientist is not only knowledge for the sake of knowledge, but knowledge with the aim of overcoming that in our environment which he views as hostile. None of the acts of nature (or Nature) is more hostile than death.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#51. We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment.

Herbie Hancock

#52. 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.

Sam Hamill

#53. In our quest for short-term returns, or results, we often ruin a prized physical asset - a car, a computer, a washer or dryer, even our body or our environment. Keeping P and PC in balance makes a tremendous difference in the effective use of physical assets.

Stephen R. Covey

#54. We have to use all of America's strengths to build a world with more partners and fewer adversaries, more shared responsibility and fewer conflicts, more good jobs and less poverty, more broadly based prosperity with less damage to our environment.

Hillary Clinton

#55. By modulating the amount of blue in our environment, we can help people to relax, or to be alert; to fall asleep, or to stay awake.

Rogier Van Der Heide

#56. Of course, we have all always known that our experiences affect our minds, and therefore, our brains; but work on epigenetics has revealed a mechanistic way in which the things we learn, and information about our environment, can be physically incorporated into our brains.

David S. Moore

#57. Let's clean up our environment. Let's clean up our bodies, but most importantly, let's not permit our babies of the future to be polluted before they are even born.

Louise Slaughter

#58. For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better.

Christopher Dodd

#59. When you get Richard Dawkins yapping menopausally at some poor hamstrung old archbishop, while we dismantle our environment due to the materialistic, pessimistic principles that the atheistic tyranny of the day is tacitly sponsoring, it is time to look for a new story.

Russell Brand

#60. We are all unconsciously in search of love. Whenever we feel its presence in our environment, we can't help but be drawn to it. There is no more compelling energy in the world.

Sonia Choquette

#61. When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.

Gwen Moore

#62. Facts have proved that prosperity at the expense of the environment is only delaying disaster. We cannot passively protect our environment by simply stopping economic development.

Zhou Shengxian

#63. It is clear that our survival and the salvaging of our environment are dependent on more technology, not less.

Samuel Florman

#64. The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced.

Henry W. Kendall

#65. We must occasionally remind ourselves of our brief visit on this planet. Shouldn't we try to express ourselves clearly, make a personal stamp on our environment, and pay attention to the details that make the difference?

Charlotte Moss

#66. The young generation can influence their elders and can make them understand the environmental problems that are faced by us today. The youth can make them see that our environment is deteriorating day by day.

Oren Lyons

#67. My hope is that we continue to do an even better job in terms of our nation's energy policy, so that we may even further reduce our reliance on foreign sources of oil and take better care of our environment in the process.

John M. McHugh

#68. Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

Earl Nightingale

#69. There are a helluva lot more of us who care about our environment in the world than we realize. We're the majority, and we can do something about that

Woody Harrelson

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

Norbert Wiener

#71. Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it in the same way twice.

Caroline Alexander

#72. Cars, with their air conditioning, windows, sound systems, and great speed, keep us isolated from our environment ...
"Self-propulsion," such as biking, walking, canoeing, puts us in touch with the land below and the world around us.

Dinty W. Moore

#73. As humans we make mistakes, expect life to automatically meet all of our needs, and imagine our environment will stay wonderful without extra effort from us.

Catherine Basten

#74. We are all products of our environment; every person we meet, every new experience or adventure, every book we read, touches and changes us, making us the unique being we are.

C.J. Heck

#75. As we work to expand our supplies of energy, we should also recognize that we must balance those efforts with our concern to preserve our environment. In the past, as we have sought new energy sources, we have too often damaged or despoiled our land.

Richard M. Nixon

#76. The old myth is true. We see our environment as a mirror to our self-image. If we think we are weak, everybody will appear like a threat. If we think we are strong, we will try to help everyone.

Gracia Hunter

#77. We may feel in control, but we never truly are unless we understand people. Controlling our environment is no longer about blocking the wind, it's about knowing why the serving lady was crying last night, or why a particular guard always loses at cards.

Brandon Sanderson

#78. In threatening times like these, what good is a peace that demands a controlled environment? We need a peace of heart and mind to see us through the storm when our environment goes berserk.

George Foster

#79. It's not a choice between our environment and our economy; it's a choice between prosperity and decline.

Barack Obama

#80. We are faulty and there is no need to bother trying to correct our flaws. We are so defective and so mismatched to our environment that we can just work around these flaws. I

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#81. I think humanity is not wise enough to know what genotype or somatype is going to be the most successful or the most fit - simply because we're not fully in control of our environment.

Paul Di Filippo

#82. If our genes are inherited and our environment is a train of physical events set in motion before we were born, how can there be a truly independent agent within the brain? The agent itself is created by the interaction of the genes and the environment.

Edward O. Wilson

#83. We are hopeful that you will want to visit our planet in the near future. We are in the process of restoring our environment to its original grandeur, and hope to have completed the task before your RSVP.

Jeremy Rifkin

#84. The oceans are more or less in disrepair. Long Beach really is making an effort to acknowledge this, and that's a great place to start. I'm trying to spread at least the knowledge that it's never too early to take care of our oceans and our environment.

Aaron Peirsol

#85. The peoples of the Andes believe in the concept of 'living well' instead of wanting to 'live better' by consuming more, regardless of the cost to our neighbors and our environment.

Evo Morales

#86. Having mastered our environment, let us now master
ourselves and choose our own destiny.

C.S. Lewis

#87. Unlike the urban development that I see taking over and swallowing up our precious soil, when we interact with our environment in a way that allows for regeneration and natural spaces, the outcome can be beautiful.

Cory Trepanier

#88. The Earth is our environment to protect and the garden to tend to.

Pope Francis

#89. The higher our consciousness the less we are affected by our environment, including race consciousness.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

#90. The most important question we have to deal with is a combination of population control and the control of our environment - how to utilize the world in as effective a way as we can for the future of mankind.

David Packard

#91. God does not hold our environment accountable for our behavior; he holds us accountable. (p79)

Donovan L. Graham

#92. We all have an interest, and a duty to future generations, to ensure that the benefits of mobility that we now take for granted, do not place an intolerable burden on our environment

Elliot Morley

#93. Colour can transform our environment and increase our productivity. It can enhance our social life, and improve our state of health.

Dorothy Sun

#94. Because there are no local or State boundaries to the problems of our environment, the Federal Government must play an active, positive role. We can and will set standards. We can and will exercise leadership.

Richard M. Nixon

#95. Our choices are always in accordance to the prevailing value systems of our environment.

Sunday Adelaja

#96. Food is at the core of our lives in ways we don't always think about - how it affects our environment, how it affects our health and well-being, how it affects the expense of society, the expense of government.

Cory Booker

#97. Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves.

Sheena Iyengar

#98. The fact is, with the exception of our own minds, no power on earth has the consistent and absolute ability to convince us that we are wrong. However much we might be prompted by cues from other people or our environment, the choice to face up to error is ultimately ours alone.

Kathryn Schulz

#99. Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.

Aubrey De Grey

#100. Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment.

Marshall McLuhan