Environment Quotes

"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected"

"I think that being in an environment is a much richer experience than just working on a soundstage"

"The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

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

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"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

"Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings"

William James, Philosopher

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

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"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

"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

"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

"In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and as determined by their past"

Franz Boas, Scientist

"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

"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

"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

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

Jacques Yves Cousteau, Explorer

"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

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

Learned Hand, Judge

"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

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

Michael D. Higgins, Politician

"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

"Politics is the art of controlling your environment"

Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist

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

James Lovelock, Scientist

"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

"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

"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

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

Zhang Ziyi, Actress

"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's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me"

Brian Molko, Musician

"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

"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

"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

"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

"A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made"

Sarah Palin, Politician

"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

"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

"Hollywood's got its own particular environment"

Harrison Ford, Actor

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