Best 1479 quotes in «environment quotes» category

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.

But that Franklin trip changed me profoundly. As I believe wilderness experience changes everyone. Because it puts us in our place. The human place, which our species inhabited for most of its evolutionary life. That place that shaped our psyches and made us who we are. The place where nature is big and we are small.

But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head.

But that constant adjustment and adaptation to your new environment, all the variables are the same. There's always a promoter, there's always a rider, there's always a shower, and there's always a stage.

But then again, you know, the pimp in TAXI DRIVER has this reason, given the environment he was living in.

By creating an artificial environment, we're not stimulating our immune system enough. Germs are immune-stimulants. They challenge you to be prepared.

Canada is a malstructured. You could almost call it a failed economy, except that its natural resources are so rich that everybody can get wealthy off making holes in the ground and digging up the oil and polluting the environment.

Can you honestly say the environment(s) you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting?

Carefully observe oneself and one's situation, carefully observe others, and carefully observe one's environment. Consider fully, act decisively.

Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.

Clutter forces the brain to consume energy. Create uncluttered environments instead.

Chimps taught us we're not separated from the animal kingdom, we're a part of it.

Cher is really down-to-earth, very nurturing, incredibly funny and fun, a great storyteller, and creates a great environment on the set.

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

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

Coal is a portable climate.

Commodity exchanges have a lot of advantages. One, you are helping transparency. Two, they are not political. It's institutional building. It can survive any environment, in theory.

Conservation is not just an ideal that we read about; it works.

Darwin's principle of natural selection leads to the prediction that the proper way to analyze any evolutionary development is to see the new features as adaptive to environments. And that's a perfectly good principle. The problem is that there are many evolutionary biologists who view everything that happens in evolution as directly evolved for adaptive benefit. And that just doesn't work. Whenever you build a structure for adaptive reasons, the structure is going to exhibit properties that have nothing to do with adaptation. They're just side consequences.

Conservation of energy also protects our environment.

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

Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life.

Daily life is both the subject and environment of the work I am making.

Dance is such a stressful environment.

Do I shout, belittle or swear? No. I have sufficient confidence within myself to control my environment just by my presence, just by working hard and leading from the front.

Destruction of the environment is not only rational; it's exactly what you're taught to do in college.

Disney is a machine, and I'm grateful for it, but I feel like being part of that environment made me crave the reaction from other projects even more.

Don't change the man. Change his environment.

Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.

Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out.

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

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.

Environmentalists needed to stop imagining that they were representing a thing called Nature or the Environment, separate from us (e.g. humans) in politics.

Eating is an agricultural act.

Eating is an environmental act.

Education, which should be helping youth to understand and adapt to their revolutionary new environments, is instead being used merely as an instrument of cultural aggression.

Environment grinds us, forces us to adjust, and--consciously or not--kills our most precious possession: that something which enables us to speak with ourselves and with God.

Environment protection weighs the same in my life as my professional acting career.

Environments are the messages before the message.

Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power.

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.

Ethics is the new competitive environment

Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally.

Even getting one amazing shot in a pristine environment is what I live for.

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.

Even very progressive, informed people still get tongue-tied responding to the question, can organic and sustainably raised food still feed the world? A corollary to that question, and one we certainly hear a lot these days, is that genetically modified foods are better for the environment because they use fewer chemicals, which has been thoroughly debunked.

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself . . . When we compare the (present) human population of the globe with . . . that of former times, we see that "chemical imperialism" has been . . . the main end to which human intelligence has been devoted.

Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.

Everyone is psychic to some degree, and really successful paranormal investigators even if they do not realize it are using their own psychic ability to sense the environment.