Environment Quotes

"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

"Climate change is a global challenge that requires global solutions. As a nation with vast natural resources, Norway has a special responsibility to contribute to sustainable development and protect the environment for future generations"

Jens Stoltenberg, Politician

"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

"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"

Paul Nurse, Scientist

"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 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"

John Romero, Inventor

"Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day"

Ryan Sypek, Actor

"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

"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

"Researches at Yale found a connection between brain cancer and work environment. The No. 1 most dangerous job for developing brain cancer? Plutonium hat model"

Jimmy Fallon, Comedian

"Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves"

Herbert Simon, Scientist

"I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way"

Marie Osmond, Musician

"Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home"

Patricia Heaton, Actress

"My hope is that we continue to do an even better job in terms of our nation's energy policy, so that we may even further reduce our reliance on foreign sources of oil and take better care of our environment in the process"

John M. McHugh, Politician

"The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented"

Dixie Lee Ray, Politician

"Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment"

Herbert Simon, Scientist

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

John M. McHugh, Politician

"And the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are signs that the government put up that say, 'Warning. You are in a drug smuggling area and a human smuggling area.'"

John McCain, Politician

"It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority"

David Suzuki, Scientist

"If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica"

Danny Glover, Actor

"More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change in values taking place among consumers, who become more concerned about quality of life, food, health and the environment"

David Korten, Activist

"Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

"I like John Kerry. I think he's intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he's deeply committed on issues like the environment. I think he's an internationalist, which I am"

Howard Dean, Politician

"The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there"

Dick Wolf, Producer

"To confront those fears, in a controlled environment, where there's 300 people around you going through the same thing, it's this weird sort of yin and yang"

Adam Arkin, Actor

"I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to "ER" were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case"

Adam Arkin, Actor

"There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment"

Tom Felton, Actor

"We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart"

David R. Brower, Environmentalist

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