Best 1479 quotes in «environment quotes» category

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

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 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.

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

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

We must develop a better sense of responsibilty towards our total environment

We must hang on to the idea that we can actually change things. That's the sort of environment that Joe finds himself in, in Young Adam.

We must learn to understand humanity better so that we can create an environment that is more beneficial to people, more rewarding, more pleasant to experience.

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

We often speak of "deep ecology," but this is also Deep Eco-Psychology: how the environment can remind us of, and help mend, mental and psychic wounds.

We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.

We're all products of our environment, and I suspect that strength of will - the feeling, "I'm going to be able to do whatever you put in front of me" - is honed in an environment where not everything is easy. Ironically, growing up in that environment, you don't have a sense of aggrievement or entitlement. You just have a sense of overcoming.

We're all products of our environment. The key is not to fall.

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

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're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.

We're not all equal as far as intelligence is concerned. We're not equal as far as size. We're not all equal as far as appearance. We do not all have the same opportunities. We're not born in the same environments, but we're all absolutely equal in having the opportunity to make the most of what we have and not comparing or worrying about what others have.

We're like lightbulbs. If bliss starts growing inside you, it's like a light; it affects the environment.

We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.

We're not products of our environments, we're products of our expectations.

We're not locked in to these conditions that degrade the environment, and jeopardize the future of our children.

We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late. We can save our planet and also boost our economy at the same time.

We thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action.

Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

We used to have just one criterion and that was profit, and then another criterion was added - social welfare. Now we have to add the third important criterion, and that is nature and the environment.

What reminds you in your environment about saving? Nothing.

What we are beginning to witness is a whole new set of rules for economics, based on rationing resources.

Whenever someone accuses someone of being a racist - which is rare, you have to admit, considering how much racism there is - there is an incredible outrage. I realized that we live in an environment that it seems to be worse to call someone a racist than to be one.

Whenever you're in a chaotic environment, there are some of the best opportunities. Nobody knows where the music business is going, but I know one thing: it's going to be about fan-artist relationships and how you monetize that. The business isn't going to turn around the way we're doing it now.

We still need to learn how to talk about food and education, because they haven't been talked about together, really. Education depends on our good health. It depends on our understanding of the environment and somehow we got those separate.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

When geologists announced the beginning of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, humans destroying the environment, one of the main things they pointed to is the use of plastics in the earth.

When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only a few pages, but ended up being nearly 50.

What we do with little kids today will matter in 20 years. If you don't get it right, you will have an unlivable environment. That's the crisis I see.

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.

When we damage the environment, we damage everything we depend on.

When the iPhone came out, every CIO in America said, 'You're not bringing that into our corporate environment,' my CIO included.

When we’ve ceased hearing or changing, we need a new environment.

When you live in a networked environment, it's possible to separate data from applications.

When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check.

When we see the human race, we must see before all else environment and food. Historians write about social change without taking these factors into account. This is why it is difficult for them to see the reasons decline and prosperity in society.

When you put yourself in environments that continually test you, that's where all the good stories come from. That's where the jokes come from is from the shitty parts.

When you work with kids, you realize if they have a really good, stable family environment that they're going to be okay.

When you shoot on film, you don't know whether you've got it or not until you get the film processed, and so it changes the relationship we have with the subject whether it's a landscape or a person in a so-called controlled environment in a chair in a studio in front of you.

Where the environment is too soft and luxurious and no strife is required for survival, not only are weak strains and individuals allowed to survive and encouraged to breed but the strong types also grow fat mentally and physically.

Where there's no progress, there's no growth. If there's no growth, there's no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.

Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments.