Environment Quotes

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

"I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is going to be a safe place to work, but I really don't think about it"

Orlando Bloom, Actor

"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

"Hollywood's got its own particular environment"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"Hierarchy works well in a stable environment"

Mary Douglas, Scientist

"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

"To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault"

Robert Conquest, Historian

"Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric"

Phil Crosby, Author

"Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it"

Natalie Portman, Actress

"Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"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"

Woody Harrelson, Actor

"I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being"

Luis Barragan, Architect

"We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I've seen things you only read about and see on the news"

Payne Stewart, Athlete

"Let's clean up our environment. Let's clean up our bodies, but most importantly, let's not permit our babies of the future to be polluted before they are even born"

Louise Slaughter, Politician

"Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us"

Harry Emerson Fosdick, Clergyman

"All too often in tough economic times, it is the environment that gets left on the cutting room floors of Congress as everyone scraps for limited federal dollars"

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Politician

"Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture"

Alex Campbell, Politician

"It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment"

Bill Brandt, Photographer

"When you talk to crews that went to Mir or have gone up to International Space Station, they say that you go through different phases of adaptation or getting used to the space environment"

Laurel Clark, Astronaut

"Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given"

Todd Gitlin, Sociologist

"We have a responsibility to protect the Earth for future generations. The environment is God's gift to everyone, and in our use of it, we have a responsibility towards the poor, towards future generations, and towards humanity as a whole"

Pope Francis, Pope

"Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved"

Bill Bradley, Politician

"I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way"

Allan Sloan

"The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

"In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

"Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

"I believe it is important for people to create a healthy mental environment in which to accomplish daily tasks"

Darren L. Johnson, Author

"The organization and the environment are in concert"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

"The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

"When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

"The environment is better and better for Democrats"

Stuart Rothenberg

"I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography"

John Sexton, Educator

"Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

"Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so"

John Naisbitt, Businessman

"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"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

"Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

"An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

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