Best 1479 quotes in «environment quotes» category

New ideas are not born in a conforming environment.

New Mexico is an environment where we are open for business.

New Orleans is a unique environment.

Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.

No longer will we allow the infrastructure of our magnificent country to crumble and decay. While protecting the environment, we will build gleaming new roads, bridges, railways, waterways, tunnels and highways.

No matter what the situation you're in, if you're raised in a loving environment, that's the most important thing.

No matter what is the environment around you, it is always possible to maintain your brand of integrity

Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.

No-one can do everything for the environment, but every-one can do something to make a better world.

No problem stays solved in a dynamic environment.

No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.

Not explicitly, no. Compared to this enormous, relentless evolutionary activity in the built environment, writing is small potatoes.

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

Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they are raised in an aberrant or twisted environment.

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 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.

Nothing changes the environment like one person deciding to love another, no matter what.

Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

People are much more important than superficial environments.

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

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

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.

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