Best 1479 quotes in «environment quotes» category

Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant.

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that.

For me, environment is all. Place — as I was saying about my students — is absolutely essential.

For me, my role is about unleashing what people already have inside them that is maybe suppressed in most work environments.

For most of the wild things on earth, the future must depend on the conscience of mankind.

For myself and my own experience now, I don't really need any music. I have enough to listen to with just the sounds of the environment. I listen to the sounds of 6th avenue.

For small businesses to thrive, they require an environment that is conducive for growth.

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going

Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).

Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far.

Given a rich environment, learning becomes like the air—it’s in and around us.

Great design is a multi-layered relationship between human life and its environment.

Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends.

Given that it takes up to 16 pounds of grain to produce one pound of meat, I think we can also go a long way toward ending hunger and saving the environment as well.

Green is the new black: make the environment part of your personal brand.

Having seen Justin's work on Bleak House, I knew that he'd be incredibly well prepared and interesting stylistically for this and that was definitely the case. It's very liberating for actors - and I can only speak for myself here - but he creates a very loose environment and he's a great collaborator.

Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day.

Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.

Health is not luck. We have an innate ability to maintain good health if we establish the optimal environment for healing.

Here to create an environment of love, live with passion, and make our most exciting dreams come true

Help! I'm being held prisoner by my heredity and environment.

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

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.

Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.

Having an environment that is supportive is really important for success.

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.

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

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.

Humans are the most successful invasives of all time.

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.

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

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. 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 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 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.

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.

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

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

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.