Best 1479 quotes in «environment quotes» category

He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but his looking glass.

Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.

History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it.

Hoodwink is a product of his environment. He grew up in Belfast, he was part of the UDA and he fought for what he believed in - or was brainwashed into believing - because of the people that surrounded him.

House passage is good news for the Northwest corner and our environment.

How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?

However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I think the environment that we are in now has improved dramatically.

Human beings and the environment compose a seamless garment of existence, a multicolored cloth, which we believe to be woven in its entirety by God.

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

Humankind's desire for peace can be realized only by the creation of a world government.

Human learning is a very aggressive style in its native state. I am not sure why, though it is a very useful trait in an unstable, unpredictable living environment.

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.

Humans are the most successful invasives of all time.

Humans create their cognitive powers by creating the environments in which they exercise those powers

Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the capacity of their environments to sustain them.

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

I always had an interest in the environment... to protect our planet... for the ocean to go on.

I always knew pesticides affected farmworkers. That's why I always tell people, "eat organic." Not just because it's better for you but because you know the people who picked your food weren't in a toxic environment.

I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment

I always stayed away from the studio environment as much as possible. But I just wanted to see if I could work in one. It's not easy. Just having an engineer's assistant around is enough for me to be uncomfortable. With more than one person there in the room, it feels strange.

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.

I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense... symbolic of themselves. I often feel that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller - to find out how they are.

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

I am a big lover of the environment. I actually come from Maine, which is pretty much all environment.

I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.

I am extremely intentional in making the environment around me playful and loving. I have great skill in that area.

I am withdrawing because I have come to view the part of the IPCC to which my expertise is relevant as having become politicized. In addition, when I have raised my concerns to the IPCC leadership, their response was simply to dismiss my concerns.

I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet.

I am very concerned about the environment and psychological health of this beautiful planet.

I avoid banks and I've never been in any sort of corporate environment at all.

I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.

I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.

I began to stack my sculptures into an environment. It was natural. It was a flowing of energy.

I believe in maximum flexibility, so I reserve the right to change my position on any subject when the external environment relating to any topic changes too.

I cannot look at myself in the mirror; everything I have believed in I have had to reject. This environment only makes sense through the prism of trends.

I believe it's in the best interests of a child to be in a stable environment.

I came into an environment that was already grounded spiritually, so that helped me a lot.

I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.

I completely agree that place is the most emotionally resonant aspect of a story. Our environment affects us every bit as much as our relationships with other people. I love work that recognizes that.

I come from a sense of struggle, a sense of using the instruments that were given to me to manipulate the environment in which I found myself, and joined up with those who are equally as skillful at manipulating that environment, as was I.

I could do all of my activities at Howard because it was an environment that had essentially rid the ideology of false choices that I feel absolutely constricts young black students.

Ideally, I'd prefer never having to be in a test-screening environment. Some famous director said "The group is smart, the individuals are stupid," about the experience of a test screening.

I didn't grow up in a mom-and-pop, Ozzie and Harriet type of environment, but who did.

Ideology to me is fundamentally is an elite pursuit. I mean most people are just not all that interested in single payer vs. government pay ... they're very interested in you know, 'Wait, are there going to be death panels.' But that's all a creation of this like hothouse media and politics environment. So maybe if humanism is an ideology then it's ideological, but I don't see it as being on the traditional left/right spectrum.

I didnt want to be encumbered by what anyone elses abilities were, their equipment or environment or their ability to get certain products.

I did think reviewers were supposed to be polite about story collections - collections are rather delicate creatures in the literary environment - but not everybody got this memo, I guess.

I don't agree with a core statement by most feminists, the statement by Simone de Beauvoir: "One is not born a woman, one becomes one." Even as a schoolgirl I wasn't convinced by the claim that gender has nothing to do with biology and is only shaped by one's environment.

I'd like to talk to Sean Hannity in a controlled environment and say, 'O.K., you can't interrupt and jump up and down like a professional wrestler.'

I do not intend that our natural resources shall be exploited by the few against the interests of the many.

I don't think you can be a credible, modern candidate for president without making the environment a major part of your platform.