Best 1479 quotes in «environment quotes» category

Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.

Of course, learning is strengthened and solidified when it occurs in a safe, secure and normal environment.

Of course things get stagnant; people get too used to their environment, but that's why I'm in my district every week, at meetings with my constituents.

Once a company has adapted to a new environment, it is no longer the organization it used to be; it has evolved. That is the essence of learning.

Oh, sure... I was trying to make to make a point that we shouldn't be afraid to debate the left, even on the environment. That was obviously misconstrued, and that's one of the things I probably won't do again

Old MacDonald had a farm-until America's corporate animal factories plowed it under.

Once you understand the power of stimulus control, you can use it to your advantage by changing the stimuli in your environment and avoiding undesirable ones; or, if that's not possible, by filling your consciousness with thoughts about their less tempting aspects.

One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.

Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.

One of the reasons why I chose to live in New York was that there is this sense of your environment constantly changing.

One of the things was to create a kind of amnesty environment.

One negative person can create a miserable office environment for everyone else.

Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.

On the allegation of withholding temperature data, we find that CRU was not in a position to withhold access to such data or tamper with it.

On some issues, I'm a staunch Conservative — like curtailing greenhouse gas emissions so that we can Conserve the environment.

One of the big lessons from behavioral economics is that we make decisions as a function of the environment that we're in.

One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.

Organizations need to undergo fundamental changes, both in order to adapt to the new business environment and to become ecologically sustainable.

Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.

Our biggest moral debt is to the environment. Take-take-take, nothing given back.

Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world.

One thought that occurs to me is that men will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that will suit them better.

Our task is not to make societies safe for globalization, but to make the global system safe for decent societies.

On the whole, the evidence indicates that model trends in the troposphere are very likely inconsistent with observations.

Our team from the same type of environment but at the same time we haven't had things peachy. We have had to work for everything we've wanted. That situation for us is just kind of similar. So we just vibe out honestly.

Outsourcing is a reflection of a bad economic environment domestically. If you fix that, you fix outsourcing. Our primary export is paper money, and that should change if you change the monetary policy.

People are much more important than superficial environments.

People don`t like getting dirty or living in an environment that`s been contaminated and is covered in hazardous waste.

Over the long term, it is more profitable to do the right thing for the environment than to pollute it.

Perceiving how things are is a mode of exploring how things appear. How they appear is, however, an aspect of how they are. To explore appearance is thus to explore the environment, the world. To discover how things are, from how they appear, is to discover an order or pattern in their appearance. The process of perceiving, of finding out how things are, is a process of meeting the world; it is an activity of skillful exploration.

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.

Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.

Philosophers of biology generally recognize that evolutionary fitness (roughly, an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment) is multiply realizable.

Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.

People seeking to live spiritually must be concerned with their social and physical environment.

Pollution should never be the price of prosperity.

Portable designs have the power to transform unused public spaces into dynamic environments that build and invite communal experiences.

Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal.

Positive work environments outperform negative work environments.

Praise causes the presence of the Lord to come into our midst. Even though God is omniscient, He manifests His authority and rule in our environment when we praise Him. When we praise, God comes in and leads us forth... He does not just visit us, but He abides and aligns Himself with us to walk with us into the path that He has chosen for us.

Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense.

Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.

Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It's not arguing a point. It's creating an environment.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.

Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.

Radicals can be found in any environment.

Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.