Best 1479 quotes in «environment quotes» category

Unschooling is creating an environment in which children can learn easily and naturally all the time.

Until we establish a felt sense of kinship between our own species and those fellow mortals who share with us the sun and shadow of life on this agonized planet, there is no hope for other species, there is no hope for the environment, and there is no hope for ourselves.

US academic institutions are being bought via funding by biotechnology firms which exert a vice-like grip on the US government.

Veganism affirms what is best for us, what is best for the animals, and what is best for the environment. Everywhere you look, you find veganism entwined with what is best.

Video game engines can handle the kind of complexity and realism you can't put into a movie - yet. But games are getting better and better - I imagine a day where you won't be able to tell a game from a movie, with great A.I. animation and photoreal, interactive environments, etc.

Walking is very good for writers. There's something fundamentally useful about not talking to anybody, not looking at a screen, and being in nature - even if that nature is an urban environment.

We Africans are able to build companies that can operate in the global environment.

We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.

We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.

We all live downstream

Wealth is not necessarily a bad thing when it has been earned in an honest manner and neither other individuals nor the environment suffered for it.

We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.

We are creatures. We have a link with a native habitat just like every other species. Throughout most of human history, physical activity was unavoidable, calories were scarce and hard to get. In the modern era, calories are unavoidable, physical activity is scare and hard to get. The traits that allowed our ancestors to survive, and let's face it, the survival of our ancestors is the reason that we're here because the people who don't survive and make very crummy ancestors, are our traits. But they're very much at odds with the modern environment.

We are comfortable in this environment. Why not make ourselves comfortable over there?.

We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment.

We are losing our environment so rapidly.

We are letting the extractive energy industries turn the world inside out.

We are social beings and our brains grow in a social environment.

We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals we disseminate widely in our environment?

We are the environment.

We can heal ourselves by changing the environment inside our bodies. Potentially harmful invaders, then, will have nowhere to grow and will become harmless.

We assume that we’re masters of our environment, rather than being a part of it.

We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.

We can design things that learn, so you can grow an intelligence by creating an environment and creating things that just do it a million time faster than we do.

We can no more create the perfect environment for our children than we can create perfect children.

We can now destroy or we can cherish-the choice is ours.

We can't be naive and think we can go it alone; we must humble ourselves and commit to routine and collective actions. This is just one reason why I am thrilled to be working with the UN Environment as its Goodwill Ambassador.

We can't tell an electorate...when you have something like in excess of 300 million people without any access to electricity at all that you have to put a cap on this.

We cannot tolerate a nuclear Iran. It would be a game changer. Not only would it threaten Israel, a country that is our stalwart ally, but it would also create an environment in which you could set off an arms race in this Middle East.

We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused

We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen.

We Floridians have always assumed an arrogant mastery over our natural environment. And we have always presumed ourselves capable of obliging the water that is all around us to behave itself.

We do not have to choose between a healthy environment and a healthy economy.

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

We have to appreciate that we are part of nature, we must work with nature; the environment is our lifeline.

We have lost sight of the dependence we have on nature in economics

We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning.

We have decisively changed the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and the rate of extinction.

We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.

We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions.

We have to shift our understanding of ourselves as separate individuals, each seeking our own welfare, to an understanding of how we fit into social, biological, and physical environments.

We humans still have a long way to go with learning to live harmoniously with our environment and its wildlife.

We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise made and kept is difficult to overstate.

We know that if you have $20 million, it's better to buy a van Gough print than it is buy an executive jet, from the point of view of the environment. But when you start getting down, it's like the recycling question: What are things we can really afford to do, and how much pleasure do we get out of them? We haven't even started to have that discussion, and it's getting awfully late.

We know that when we protect our oceans we're protecting our future.

We live in a paradox: connected electronically but disconnected interpersonally. However, when you recognize the problem, you can take steps to correct it. You can create an emotionally connected environment anywhere if you try hard enough.

Well, I have my own article on where the heck is global warming?...The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't.

Well I'm not convinced that expanding uranium mining is in the best interests of the country and the best interests of its environment.

We must protect our most precious resource, our environment, for future generations.

We must be certain that the repair to the environment is sufficient to allow wild species to recover and survive.