Environment Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Environment
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~ To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. ~

Charles Horton Cooley

~ American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc ~

Katherine Dunn

~ Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built. ~

James Allen

~ Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them. ~

W. Clement Stone

~ In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force ~

Koichi Tanaka

~ Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it ~

WILLIAM ASHWORTH

~ Every human should have the idea of taking care of the environment, of nature, of water. So using too much or wasting water should have some kind of feeling or sense of concern. Some sort of responsibility and with that, a sense of discipline ~

The 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso

~ Education and communication are vitally important in order to impress each individual of his or her responsibility regarding the healthy future of the Earth. The best way for students to recognize that their action can make a difference is to have projects organized by the school or community on which the students can work. Once convinced that they can help, people tend to change both their attitude and their behavior. New attitudes towards the environment will be reflected in decisions at home and in corporate boardrooms around the world. ~

Vanessa Allison

~ What America does not do well is anticipate and avoid problems. Unfortunately, many environmental phenomena involve thresholds that, when passed, caused damage that is essentially irreversible. If we wait until the damage occurs and then respond, it will be too late. ~

Denis Hayes†

~ (Plants) are superb opportunist among, the most of different combinations of water, air, soil, and climate. Their grip on the planet, their capacities for colonization, and their integration with the environment are due to an outstanding diversification and variety. ~

Anthony Huxley†

~ I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future. ~

John F. Kennedy

~ (Plants should be regarded as) jewels in the devalued currency of our world environment. ~

Uberto Tosco

~ There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with. ~

Michael Pollan

~ We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. ~

Margaret Mead

~ We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve. ~

Maxwell Maltz

~ We believe energy efficiency-focused technology innovation is key to addressing the significant impact that this growing energy use will have both on today's businesses and our environment. ~

Andrew Fanara

~ Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme. ~

Sherwood Boehlert

~ Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these. ~

John Burroughs

~ Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior. ~

B. F. Skinner

~ We see low- to moderate-income communities that are distressed from exposure to environmental hazards such as pollution, waste and toxic building practices. ~

Anne Sekel

~ It's yet another layer of environmental impact that offshore oil exploration involves. From cradle to grave, oil and gas hits the environment. ~

Michael Jasny

James Allen

~ I do not believe we are all created equal. Physical and emotional differences, parental guidance, varying environments, being in the right place at the right time all play a role in enhancing or limiting development. But I do believe every man and woman, if given the opportunity and encouragement to recognize their potential, regardless of background, has the freedom to choose in our world. Will an individual be a taker or a giver in life? Will he be satisfied merely to exist, or will he seek a meaningful purpose? Will he dare to dream the impossible dream? ~

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~ We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve. ~

Maxwell Maltz

~ All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster. ~

Barack Obama

~ A business leader has to keep their organization focused on the mission. That sounds easy, but it can be tremendously challenging in today's competitive and ever-changing business environment. A leader also has to motivate potential partners to join. ~

Meg Whitman

~ Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country. ~

Eric Hoffer

~ Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent. ~

Carl Jung

~ The first century of the new Millennium will belong … also to biotechnology which will bring unprecedented advances in human and animal health, agriculture and food production, manufacturing and sustainable environmental management ~

Ben Ngubane

~ Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism. ~

Michael Shermer

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