Environment Quotes

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

In both places [Paraguay and Newfoundland] people rise despite everything - both are pretty tough environments.

It is now well understood that humans ultimately depend on the health of the planet for their wellbeing.

Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.

The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment.

This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal.

Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually.

The most important role of managers is to create environment in which people are passionately dedicated to winning in marketplace.

I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible.

There has been a concerted effort to frame caring about climate change and the environment as an alternate religion - one that worships the creation rather than the creator, so to speak.

It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president.

It is your human environment that makes climate

Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.

Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are simultaneous, there is no time or space separating events.

A light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence.

Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it's like to be stepped on, I know what it's like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.

It's really wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people.

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

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.

Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.

Human beings and the environment compose a seamless garment of existence, a multicolored cloth, which we believe to be woven in its entirety by God.

I'm interested in how a lot of people pull objects together to form an environment that we feel reflects ourselves or makes us feel comfortable.

There is a dilemma, to reconcile three time scales: in the short term, the economy; in the middle range, global well-being generally; and, in the long range, the environment.

I grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did.

The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part.

I'm involved with Recording Artists and Actors Against Drunk Driving. I'm also involved with most children's causes, because children can't help the environment they're in.

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.

It's not a question of doing the best thing for the environment - the best thing for the environment is for people to stop using vast amounts of energy.

The new environment dictates two rules: first, everything happens faster; second, anything that can be done will be done, if not by you, then by someone else, somewhere.

Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions... by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.

There cannot be stable money within an environment dominated by ideologies hostile to the preservation of economic freedom.

Sorghum is kind of unusual. It can go to very high heats, but it's not as productive in most environments as maize is.

OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets.

We need to start thinking about the future of food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.

I think DOOM had just the right mix of elements that keep people coming back to it: great monsters, excellent weapons with great balance, a spooky environment and extreme speed.

Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S.

Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power.

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.

The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment.

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.

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

To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations.

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.

Humankind's desire for peace can be realized only by the creation of a world government.

I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.

However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I think the environment that we are in now has improved dramatically.

Toxic remnants of war represent a profound challenge for the protection of public health and the restoration of the environment in countries affected by conflict.

Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.

But isn't it time for Christians to admit that we should reject bargains if they are gained by the exploitation of the poorest of the poor in developing countries?