Best 1479 quotes in «environment quotes» category

The brain, Schopenhauer says, is the 'one great tool' that has enabled a creature endowed with neither sharp teeth nor claws to survive in a competitive environment. Moreover simplification of data, and indeed judicious falsification, are adaptive traits.

The Buggles was much more a studio environment idea, which we never actually took on the road.

The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud.

The Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or say that others are fine as they are: Muslims, Hindus and so forth. The Church can never retreat comfortably to within the limits of her own environment. She is charged with universal solicitude; she must be concerned with and for one and all... We must... as the Lord says - go out ever anew 'to the highways and hedges' (Luke 14:23), to deliver God's invitation to his banquet also to those who have so far heard nothing or have not been stirred within.

The commercial media are to the mental environment what factories are to the physical environment

...the contribution of greenhouse gases to the Vostok temperature changes can be...between a lower estimate of 40% and a higher estimate of 65%.

The contingency of history (both for life in general and for the cultures of Homo sapiens ) and human free will (in the factual rather than theological sense) are conjoined concepts, and no better evidence can be produced than the "experimental" production of markedly different solutions in identical environments.

The cosmos will always mirror back to us whatever your inner state is. The greater the love we discover in ourselves, the greater the love will reflect back to us from the environment through others.

The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other.

The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.

The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).

The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.

The Earth is our environment to protect and the garden to tend to.

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

The environment changed with Martha Stewart and Enron.

The environment has become a political, polarizing issue.

The environment is in us, not outside of us. The trees are our lungs, the rivers our bloodstream. We are all interconnected, and what you do to the environment ultimately you do to yourself.

The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.

The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.

The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education.

The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment.

The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.

The financial system as a whole has had the characteristics of a Ponzi scheme if we look at it fundamentally.

The first twenty years of my life were wasted. I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.

The forces of things, the beings of the Universe, interpenetrate, divide and unite themselves according to eternal laws. But the laws of Nature are, to speak after the manner of men, Thoughts of God, in which all lives, that is to say, He is.

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

The free conversation of a friend is what I would prefer to any environment.

The greatest danger hanging over our children and grandchildren is initiation of changes that will be irreversible on any time scale that humans can imagine.

The greatest weapon of mass destruction is corporate economic globalization.

The healing of our relationship with place begins with the preservation of the natural environment. We cannot go to the wild for renewal if no wilderness is left.

The idea with theatre is to come to an environment that you enjoy.

The improved means to the unimproved end.

The individual can take initiatives without anybody's permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.

The interesting thing I learned was that if you're really concerned about your health, the best decisions for your health turn out to be the best decisions for the farmers and the best decisions for the environment-and that there is no contradiction there.

The irresponsible rhetoric of Barack Obama, who has used the pulpit of the presidency to divide us by race and color, has made America a more dangerous environment than frankly I have ever seen.

The key to good grilling is to recognize that you are setting yourself up to cook in a whole new environment. This is actually one of the main purposes of grilling - to get yourself outside.

The earth is not just our environment. The earth is our mother.

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

The environment can actually affect gene expression.

The environment as we perceive it is our invention.

The environment is so fundamental to our continued existence that it must transcend politics and become a central value of all members of society.

The environment is not just around you, it's passing through you.

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.

The freer the market is and the more respect you have for private property, the better the environment is protected.

...the global surface albedo [surface whiteness] and greenhouse gas changes account for practically the entire global climate change.

The living conditions of the poor must be improved if we really want to save our environment

The main thing that we're doing is thinking we can control anything, which is the biggest false assumption we can make. I think we can figure out how to tread a lot more lightly on the environment, and we'll be a lot better off.

The manufacturing of most goods harms the environment in one way or another. The culprit is not the factory, but it is we who buy what it produces. Therefore we should think carefully about items we purchase.

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.

The model of competitive equilibrium which has been discussed so far is set in a timeless environment. People and companies all operate in a world in which there is no future and hence no uncertainty.