Environment Quotes

"I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance"

"We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited"

E. F. Schumacher, Economist

"So that we focus not on competing visions for Europe but on what Europe can do to improve economic growth, to give us a cleaner environment, to create more jobs, to make us more secure"

John Hutton, Educator

"That's where I began to ask questions that maybe don't have one specific answer. And the more people you get answers from, the richer the environment becomes"

John Zorn, Composer

"Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia"

James Lovelock, Scientist

"Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment"

Learned Hand, Judge

"While the wider global environment is worrying, we are seeing some positive results in our economic affairs"

Michael D. Higgins, Politician

"Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set"

Christian Bale, Actor

"I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States"

George W. Bush, President

"For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"Yes, I was invited to make the sound environment at a booth of a huge electronic company, during the Hanover Industrial Fair in 1973. It was a job. Slightly good paid. But not as much as my producer then told the press"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me"

Zhang Ziyi, Actress

"So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter"

Donna Tartt, Novelist

"Politics is the art of controlling your environment"

Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist

"We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

"Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician"

Chris Hadfield, Astronaut

"Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that"

Sean Connery, Actor

"You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration"

James Lane Allen, Author

"The second stream of material that is going to come out of this project is a programming environment and a set of programming tools where we really want to focus again on the needs of the newbie. This environment is going to have to be extremely user-friendly"

Guido van Rossum, Scientist

"There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish"

Warren G. Bennis, Psychologist

"I think achieving a higher fiscal stability is also a very important condition for restoring an environment which is conducive to growth"

Lucas Papademos, Politician

"Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives"

Manuel Puig, Author

"We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools"

David Selby, Actor

"And judging what is appropriate or not appropriate for a country, I think it is important in particular in judging what is the appropriate economic policy framework, one should take into account the overall political environment and the institutional framework within which economic policy operates"

Lucas Papademos, Politician

"We seem to do better in the studio than we do in a live environment"

Josh Silver, Musician

"It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this is true. But government creates the environment in which businesses can excel and expand"

Christine Gregoire, Politician

"You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?"

W. Clement Stone, Businessman

"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"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system"

Barack Obama, President

"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, Businessman

"The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets"

Jacques Yves Cousteau, Explorer

"As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy"

Al Gore, Vice President

"God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"Hollywood's got its own particular environment"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"Hierarchy works well in a stable environment"

Mary Douglas, Scientist

"Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience"

Wole Soyinka, Dramatist

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