Quotes On The Environment

#1. Skinner proposed that the environment had a much greater effect on the individual than previously thought. In particular, he proposed that to improve human race we need focus on creating better environments, rather than better people. Because good environments will conduce to good people.

Jose Berengueres

#2. Film is drama. You've only two hours, so you lie by exclusion, and try to make up for it by portraying the environment.

Shekhar Kapur

#3. Apparently, he'd killed so many family members that he must have significantly affected the Lore's population. Doing my part for the environment.

Kresley Cole

#4. Research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution.

Dee Dee Myers

#5. Conservatives should insist that defense spending be examined with the same seriousness that we demand in examining the books of those government agencies that spend taxpayer money in the name of welfare, the environment, or education.

Grover Norquist

#6. The environment we create can help heal us or fracture us. This is true not just for buildings and landscapes but also for interactions and relationships.

Sharon Salzberg

#7. Now the amygdala is our early warning detector, our danger detector. It sorts and scours through all of the information looking for anything in the environment that might harm us. So given a dozen news stories, we will preferentially look at the negative news.

Peter Diamandis

#8. It is a perverse faith, in that it reveres the "environment" ahead of people who live in it. It is a most ascetic superstition, in that it demands we live less happily and less freely and with less prosperity - the opposite of, say, the Protestant work ethic that helped build Ontario.

Ezra Levant

#9. My mom breastfed me for more than a year, and I can't imagine doing it any other way. It's cheap and much better for the environment, and you don't have to lug all that stuff around.

Emily Deschanel

#10. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.

Aldous Huxley

#11. 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.

Lil Jon

#12. She felt Britain should not be so dependent on coal. She was in favour of building up nuclear energy to break the dependence on coal, and the main opposition to nuclear came from the environment movement. Mrs. Thatcher thought she could trap them with the carbon emissions argument.

Nigel Lawson

#13. Until we establish a felt sense of kinship between our own species and those fellow mortals who share with us the sun and shadow of life on this agonized planet, there is no hope for other species, there is no hope for the environment, and there is no hope for ourselves.

Jon Wynne-Tyson

#14. If we begin to diligently care for the environment, it will greatly improve human health.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. You have to think if we've been visited by extraterrestrial life, it was like a zookeeper walking into the chimp enclosure: He looks around, takes some pictures, then leaves without interacting significantly with the environment. Meanwhile the chimps have no idea what the fuck just happened.

J. Richard Singleton

#16. ...and led me to finally recognise that I was but an automaton devoid of free will in thought and action and merely responsible to the forces of the environment.

Nikola Tesla

#17. We're taught to solely blame our luck-of-the-draw genes for our health issues, rather than our daily habits, dietary choices, and interplay with the environment that surrounds us.

Kris Carr

#18. Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself.

L. Ron Hubbard

#19. When you're making a purchasing decision around an appliance or a car or a home, that's when to take the environment into mind, but don't dwell so much on paper versus plastic.

Chip Giller

#20. The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.

Lady Bird Johnson

#21. With a healthy environment all our lives are enriched - without it our lives are diminished. The environment is and will always be number one - One Life, One World, Our Future.

Arron Wood

#22. Having that college-town atmosphere with a live repertory company available was a real gift. I found myself gravitating toward the theater from about the age of nine. I guess it was the environment that got me started.

Christopher Reeve

#23. Life became a science when interest shifted from the dissection of dead bodies to the study of action in living beings and the nature of the environment they live in.

George Amos Dorsey

#24. Species evolve to meet the environment. An intelligent species changes the environment to suit itself. As soon as a species becomes intelligent, it should stop evolving.

Larry Niven

#25. It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment.

Ian Bremmer

#26. My work is inspired by my passion for human rights issues and the environment, and by my love of family, music and nature.

Susan Dorothea White

#27. In the case of the environment, there's no one to bail it out.

Noam Chomsky

#28. I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.

Barbara Boxer

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

Jean Sibelius

#30. To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling, as such, quite apart from the environment in which it is called forth.

Kazimir Malevich

#31. I love this planet ... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.

Ted Turner

#32. I think the Sierra Club is the environmental group that has the best chance of really accomplishing things. It's well known, and it actually gets down to doing the dirty work of protecting the environment.

Tom Scholz

#33. Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear.

Ban Ki-moon

#34. This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment.

Jim Jeffords

#35. We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.

Wangari Maathai

#36. Development requires modification and transformation of the environment ... the planet's capacity to support its people us being irreversibly reduced by the destruction and degradation of the biosphere and the need to understand the problem and take corrective action is becoming urgent.

Malcolm Fraser

#37. Today, however, we have to realize that a true ecological approach always becomes a social approach; it must integrate questions of justice in debates on the environment, so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.

Pope Francis

#38. Most people seem to think that organisms develop adaptive traits in response to environmental change. This is bullshit. The environment changes and those who already happen to have newly adaptive traits don't get wiped out.

Peter Watts

#39. What is human is to make a difference to the world, to act on it, to interact with others, and, together, to transform the environment and themselves. If this process is prevented, we become less than human; we are harmed.

Mark M. Lanier

#40. One of the first papers I wrote at the University of Wisconsin, in 1977, was on stem cells. I realized that if I changed the environment that these cells were in, I could turn the cells into bone, and if I changed the environment a bit more, they would form fat cells.

Bruce Lipton

#41. The chemistry from compounds in the environment is orders of magnitude more complex than our best chemists can produce.

Craig Venter

#42. The education of women is the best way to save the environment.

E. O. Wilson

#43. When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only a few pages, but ended up being nearly 50.

Woody Harrelson

#44. There are serious problems that have to do with the environment, that have to do with the way in which we live and consume.

Donald Wuerl

#45. The excellent person manages himself. He will not allow the environment to manage him.

Rex Resurreccion

#46. If you really think the environment is less important than the economy try holding your breath while you count your money.

Guy R. McPherson

#47. Maybe you care deeply about the environment or other global issues, or you feel strongly about your local region or community, but you just don't see how local money can help. I hope that this pamphlet will show you connections between what you care about and 'the money problem'.

John Rogers

#48. It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.

E. O. Wilson

#49. If we want the world to be a better place to live, we have to treat it as one unit. If we want economic growth to be pervasive, we have to make people its partners. If we want the process of development to be sustainable, we have to work with the environment.

Narendra Modi

#50. The capitalist system only allows us to heap up waste. I would like to propose that the trillions of money earmarked for war should be channeled to make good the damage to the environment, to make reparations to the earth.

Evo Morales

#51. When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things.

Bjorn Lomborg

#52. What is in the pencil is greater than what is around it. The talents in you are greater than the environment surrounding you. Your potentials will change your environment.

Israelmore Ayivor

#53. The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops.

Fritjof Capra

#54. There are many roads to journalism. My feeling is that your best bet in college is to study the subjects you will want to write about, whether politics, the environment or the law.

Serge Schmemann

#55. Today the environmental movement has become opposed to issues of justice. You can see this in the way issues are framed. It's a permanent replay of jobs-versus-the-environment, in nature-versus-bread. These are extremely artificial dichotomies.

Vandana Shiva

#56. I don't think you can escape the environment we live in now.

Donald Fagen

#57. I realize that at a certain point if we're going to change our food system, it's going to be the next generation that's going to be critical. This generation is very interested in food issues, very concerned about things like animal welfare and the impact of the food system on the environment.

Michael Pollan

#58. Climate change and energy use are global problems. News Corp is a global company. Our operations affect the environment all over the world.

Rupert Murdoch

#59. The pressure of the environment cramps art as it cramps behaviour. One may challenge this environment, but one has to pay for it, and the price is neurotic guilt. There never was an intelligentsia without a guilt complex; it is the income tax one has to pay for wanting to make others richer.

Arthur Koestler

#60. There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.

Ken Livingstone

#61. 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.

Chloe Sevigny

#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. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't driving around on a bus and having a campfire kind of adding to the environment problem?

Will Smith

#64. I think the human body is beautiful, and I don't really have a huge problem in dealing with it, but it's the context, the environment and what I feel about it that that makes the difference for me.

Andie MacDowell

#65. Bush fell off his bike while mountain biking on his ranch over the weekend. He hit a rough spot in the trail. There's a switch - the environment hurting Bush.

Jay Leno

#66. To take care of the environment, we must first take care of the environmentalist.

Nhat Hanh

#67. I was so fanatical about trying to save wildlife ... I was unable to accept that we couldn't solve this problem of thousands of years, of wherever humans operated, the environment deteriorated.

Allan Savory

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

Ayn Rand

#69. Original sin - that is to say, the sin of having been born with human nature that contains within it the temptation to evil - will always make a mockery of attempts at perfection based upon manipulation of the environment.

Theodore Dalrymple

#70. Geoengineering involves humans making intentional, large-scale modifications to the Earths geophysical systems in order to change the environment.

Jamais Cascio

#71. Let us think about 'zero-defect and zero effect'. Zero defect in production with no adverse effect on the environment.

Narendra Modi

#72. I think the idea that the systemic problems in a society lead to illness is important to know. We shouldn't be separating out how we live with where we live, and what ails us with the environment we're in.

Claudia Rankine

#73. What's all this whining about the environment? They're always talking about 'stop the clearcuts.' I mean do the math people. If we were out of trees then we wouldn't have any clearcuts to be complaining about now would we?

George W. Bush

#74. Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.

Kevin Kelly

#75. It is a national tragedy of incalculable proportions....What is wrong with the United States that it can provide the environment for such an act? There is sickness in the nation when political differences cannot be accepted and settled in the democratic way.
(from The St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

United Press International

#76. The environment that people live in is the environment that they learn to live in, respond to, and perpetuate. If the environment is good, so be it. But if it is poor, so is the quality of life within it.

Ellen Swallow Richards

#77. The organization does not have to be at the mercy of the environment; it can take the initiative to accomplish the shared values and purposes of the individuals involved.

Stephen R. Covey

#78. The organization and the environment are in concert.

Kevin Kelly

#79. Certain types of decisions can be safely ignored. Some issues will go away with the passage of time, others will be so slow developing that the decision-makers will depart before the results of their neglect becomes manifest. Which brings us to the environment.

Jack McDevitt

#80. Trust is the glue that holds everything together. It creates the environment in which all of the other elements win-win stewardship agreements, self-directing individuals and teams, aligned structures and systems, and accountability can flourish.

Stephen Covey

#81. It is time for a sustainable energy policy which puts consumers, the environment, human health, and peace first.

Dennis Kucinich

#82. The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed.

Joan D. Vinge

#83. The most successful prostitutes are invisible, because the sign of a prostitute's success is her absolute blending with the environment. She's so shrewd, she never becomes visible. She never gets in trouble. She has command of her life, and her clients.

Camille Paglia

#84. Sustainability is growth based on forms and processes of development that do not undermine the integrity of the environment on which they depend

Jim MacNeill

#85. We all have a stake - equally. Because if we do not save the environment and save the Earth, then whatever we do in civil rights or in a war against poverty will be of no meaning, because then we will have the equality of extinction and the brotherhood of the grave.

James Farmer

#86. BP had a lease to drill. They did not have a lease to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. They did not have a lease to blow oil into the environment. They did not have a lease to disperse the oil and try to hide the body. They don't have a lease to clean up.

Carl Safina

#87. If home cooks shopped in their own vegetable bin before going to the market, they would save money and help the environment, too, and all because they decided to rescue a vegetable before it turned bad.

Dana Cowin

#88. A complex system benefits from not following the same practices over and over again. By enduring a little bit of stress and continuously adapting to variability in the environment, the system learns to become fitter and healthier.

Jurgen Appelo

#89. When things go right, people credit their own abilities and intelligence. The onlookers do the reverse. When they see things go well for someone else, they sometimes credit the environment, or luck.

Donald A. Norman

#90. The biggest determinant in our lives is culture, where we are born, what the environment looks like. But the second biggest determinant is probably governance, good governance or a certain kind of governance makes a huge difference in our lives.

Nicolas Berggruen

#91. So, at one extreme you have indigenous, tribal societies trying to stem the race to disaster. At the other extreme, the richest, most powerful societies in world history, like the United States and Canada, are racing full-speed ahead to destroy the environment as quickly as possible.

Noam Chomsky

#92. China's environmental conundrums will not be solved by changes within government alone. New mechanisms are needed to allow the communities which may be affected by a given plan, and citizens concerned about the environment, to join in.

Ma Jun

#93. I'm very familiar with poverty. I find it easy to be with, whether I'm in America or in Africa or in Asia. Wherever I go and find the environment of those who are living in poverty and resisting poverty is a great in which I have great comfort.

Harry Belafonte

#94. What I really think is going to happen over time is technology is going to change the way we live for the good for the environment.

George W. Bush

#95. The economy is now consuming the planet's available resources on a scale that rivals their supply while releasing its waste products back into the environment on a scale that greatly affects the major biogeophysical cycles of the planet.

James Gustave Speth

#96. 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.

Karl-Johan Persson

#97. You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.

Tony Robbins

#98. We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?

Indira Gandhi

#99. It's also the environment that determines a considerable part of the growth and development of children.

Edward Zigler

#100. I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.

Alexandra Paul