Environment Quotes

"Hierarchy works well in a stable environment"

"The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they're interdependent"

"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

"When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!"

Dennis Weaver, Actor

"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

"For the first two weeks of filming, I remember bristling at some of the occurrences on the set, none of which directly involved me. Then I surrendered to the environment, to Michael's method, and became much happier, even though no one knew what to expect"

Madeleine Stowe, Actress

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

Manuel Puig, Author

"For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better"

Christopher Dodd, Politician

"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

"Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we name the external world"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

"We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment"

John McDonald, Leader

"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

"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 can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for"

David Attenborough, Journalist

"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

"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

"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

"The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants"

David Attenborough, Journalist

"When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice"

Helena Christensen, Model

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"I mean, there was a portion, of course, that I think, when I look back now, that there was a portion of what attracted me must have been the awe of him being a powerful man in this environment, not to take away from who he is as a real person"

Monica Lewinsky, Celebrity

"I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment"

Uma Thurman, Actress

"When the TV version of Annie came on, I was drawn to it. It was the struggle of this poor kid in this environment and how her life changed. It immediately resonated"

Jay-Z, Musician

"When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however"

Uma Thurman, Actress

"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

"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

"The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment"

Jacques Ellul, Philosopher

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