Best 1479 quotes in «environment quotes» category

The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet.

The question for me is whether we can keep Earth a safe, pleasant place for humankind and the ecosystems we rely on.

The quest for stability or homeostasis is silly. We should accept that we live on an incredibly dynamic planet in a rapidly changing environment, and do our best to have the most amazing experiences we can.

The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society.

The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million other species we share this planet with, let alone our own species, then who can?

There are two types of people: One strives to control his environment, the other strives not to let his environment control him. I like to control my environment.

There are two ways you can receive energy from your environment: One is molecules bumping against you. That's the air. The other is radiative energy. That's what you're feeling from the sun. When they say "Get out of the sun, out of the heat," the air is the same temperature; it's just you're exposed to sunlight.

There cannot be stable money within an environment dominated by ideologies hostile to the preservation of economic freedom.

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

There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.

There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment

There is something exciting about being in an environment in which it's really cool to be smart.

There is an order to our environment, a broader order.

There is no condition that you cannot modify into something more, any more than there is any painting that you can paint and not like and just paint over it again. There are many limiting thoughts in the human environment that make it feel like it is not so, as you have these incurable illnesses, or these unchangeable conditions. But we say, they are only "unchangeable" because you believe that they are.

There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a very complex environment.

There's conflict on every continent, the poverty rate is increasing, the environment's a wreck, and I'm not supposed to be affected?

There should be music in the child's environment, just as there does exist in the child's environment spoken speech. In the social environment the child should be considered and music should be provided.

There's enough evidence that variation in sexual orientation is more a function of genes than of environment and for that reason alone, it should be accepted as but another example of human variability.

There's plenty of anecdotal evidence that most champions are born into certain environments and encouraged early. Then, later on, they might get some assistance from their federations.

Theres no environment I can think of that would have remained constant enough to preserve dinosaur DNA.

The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive.

There's something about the human brain, that it actually has a predilection towards negativity, which served us really well when we lived in an environment that was very threatening.

The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into which he enters.

The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment.

There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well.

The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have already learned from the river that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depths.

The simplest things are often the truest.

The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.

The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.

The slogan used to be 'Populate or perish'. We can now see that it is more like 'Populate and perish'. A sustainable future has to be based on stabilisation of both population and consumption.

The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment; the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible.

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

The way to build a strong future is by both protecting the environment and creating good jobs.

The way that TV is set up is very helpful for when a show comes to an end because as an actor, you've got acting, but as a showrunner you still get to edit for three months and after that ends you get to do a sound mix. So, as a writer-performer in television, it's a very nurturing, gradual environment to say goodbye to a show.

The web is the ultimate customer-empowering environment. He or she who clicks the mouse gets to decide everything. It is so easy to go elsewhere; all the competitors in the world are but a mouseclick away.

The whole business starts with ideas, and we're convinced that ideas come out of an environment of supportive conflict, which is synonymous with appropriate friction.

The whole subject with weight pressure worries me because a lot of young actresses are really unhealthy. It didn't happen to me when I was younger because I grew up in South Carolina in a very safe and secure environment.

The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings.

The younger you are, the more likely you are to have grown up in a (mostly) lead-free environment, and that means you're less likely to have committed a felony or gotten sent to prison.

The wind and the sun are free.

The words "environment," "medium" denote something more than surroundings which encompass an individual. They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with his own active tendencies.

The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.

The world hasn't ended, but the world as we know it has-even if we don't quite know it yet.

The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.

They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options.

The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.

The world's environment can no longer handle beef.

They paved paradise and put up a parkin lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got till it's gone

This is what I love about the Kimberley... wild gorges, fresh water and there's always a chance of a barra taking your lure.

To be an actor and a director, I actually felt it helped me tremendously to be in the scenes of The Hollars, because as you can see, they're very intimate, very intense scenes. You don't want to break the actor's character and you don't want to break their momentum, so as the actor, I tried not to call cut as much as I could, and almost make it feel like a play, just set this environment where these amazing actors could do what they wanted to do.