Best 1479 quotes in «environment quotes» category

I need a dose of the natural environment on a regular basis. It balances the bitumen and high rises of Collins Street.

I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.

In my book Radical Reform I made it clear that we cannot talk about the environment or ecology if we don't also deal with the economy. There is a direct link between how we deal with the economy and how we deal with nature.

In my travels, I have found two peoples, the Tibetans and the Fijians, who don't seem to have this problem. Their closeness with their environment, their religions, and their relationships with each other and nature make them feel part of everything.

In my view, the holy is not based so much on the physical environment, but on the experience and perceptions of it.

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.

Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.

In the end, it will just melt away quite suddenly. It might not be as early as 2013 but it will be soon, much earlier than 2040.

In that Freak Show environment, I got to spend time with so many of the actors who were part of that world. I just had the best time ever.

In the U.A.E. we were the least-regulated environment in the region, and over time we are seeing more and more regulation coming in. On the other hand, a central bank can overregulate and choke the economy, and then we will have a dead banking industry.

In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent.

In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before the interests of a deified market, which become the only rule.

I really like to travel when I write. Something about seeing new things and being in new cultures and environments provokes new thoughts in your head.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

In this uncertain world, the food is disposable. It is the wrappings that are permanent.

In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules.

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.

I seem to be inside a kind of artificial environment. Almost like a... a simulacrum of Reiden Lake.

I started with California, and I did not like it. I flew over to Seattle, and I did not like it much. I felt like Iowa is the place - I like the people and the environment.

I still think that being thrown in a very competitive environment where you really have to see what you are made of - certainly when you come out of nowhere - was good for me.

It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one's environment.

It always amused me that there were people working for the good of altruism but also wanting a lot of credit for it. It's just oddly competitive and the environment and the people who decide to work at non-profits are just really funny to me.

It became very important for me to stand up and design with a conscience for environment, you know? Just because you like clothes doesn't mean that you have to throw your principles out the window.

I think anybody, not just children, is a product of a great environment. If you put them in a better environment from a sad situation, nine times out of 10, they'll go in the right direction.

I think a philistine environment should be bracing for young artists. You have to make your own enjoyment, you've got to make your own art.

I think artists almost always end up turning to what's around them, what's in their environment or outside their window.

I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is going to be a safe place to work, but I really don't think about it.

I think a person permeates a spot, and a lost presence makes the environment timeless to me, keeps an area alive. It pulsates because of that.

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

I think one of the greatest gifts you can give to someone is just access to the possibility of freedom that you don't have to be totally depressed and enslaved by your own environment.

I think one of the other myths is that your environment determines your happiness. That if you are living with an alcoholic or living with a depressed spouse for a long time, you are just going to be unhappy.

I think the environment has become more competitive. That has made Indian industry more concerned with a) its customers, b) the quality of its products, and c) its brand image in the marketplace.

I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.

I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.

I think the environment is possibly our most worrying thing at the moment, so I think mountaintops are the place to live.

I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.

I think we're more relevant than ever because it is such a noisy environment out there. What's a journalist now? It's anybody with a way to get information out and you're sitting there with your smartphone in front of you. That's what we're up against now. There's a lot of unfiltered information. Some of it is accurate, some of it way off base. We're that safe port in the storm.

I think things go wrong when there's not a very specific plan and specific emotional roadmap. You need to know what a scene needs to get across, and what story point that needs to be advanced, whether it's discovering someone for the first time or whether it's seeing a relationship get strained. What I do as a director is really create a safe environment that everyone can feel very comfortable in and experiment within so that they don't hold back anything.

I thrive on production. It feels very much like a natural environment for me.

I think when you're put into a completely different situation and environment, you really see who you are. You're not affected by what's around you. You are who you are.

It is a fearful environment where no one can trust to pick up a stranger, or a stranger cannot trust to get in a car. That search I find lacking. That openness. Right now, we have got ourselves stuck in one thing, which is make money as fast as we can, because it is hard to live in this world without it. Let us face it.

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.

It is also vital that our relationship with nature and the environment be included in our education systems. This is not longer something cute or nice to do; it is now a singular imperative.

It is a woman's business to be interested in the environment. It's an extended form of housekeeping.

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

It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.

It is now well understood that humans ultimately depend on the health of the planet for their wellbeing.

It is no accident that television has been dominated by a handful of corporate powers. Neither is it accidental that television has been used to re-create human beings into a new form that matches the artificial, commercial environment. A conspiracy of technological and economic factors made this inevitable and continue to.