Environment Quotes

"But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if you are not around that environment, then you'll find you lose that feel, that momentum, you lose all that"

Dennis Brown, Musician

"It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do"

Duncan Sheik, Musician

"It's important to determine which surroundings work best for you, and then build that environment to suit your needs"

Marilu Henner, Actress

"That's the great thing about having your friends around you. I've known these guys forever. I really enjoy their company just as people. You couldn't ask for a better work environment"

Drew Carey, Actor

"It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself"

Bruce Greenwood, Actor

"Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker"

Christy Turlington, Model

"As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital"

Donald Evans, Public Servant

"I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simulated wild environment and, for those who have been tested on, who are disabled, aggressive, etc., their own space to live out their days"

Casey Affleck, Actor

"With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from"

Bruce Greenwood, Actor

"The atmosphere defines the environment of sound"

Bill Laswell, Musician

"Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment"

Bernice Johnson Reagon, Musician

"Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment"

Arthur Helps, Historian

"Israel remains a foreign body in this large area, and it always proved that it is unable to coexist with this environment, because the, the scope of the massacres that it has committed does not permit it to coexist"

Hassan Nasrallah, Revolutionary

"Heredity is nothing but stored environment"

Luther Burbank, Environmentalist

"We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts"

Spike Lee, Director

"A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in Iraq"

Tom Lantos, Diplomat

"Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select novel adaptive pathways"

Ernst Mayr, Scientist

"Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies"

Temple Grandin, Educator

"But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour"

Thom Mayne, Architect

"As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment"

Temple Grandin, Educator

"Our economy and our environment are inextricably linked. We cannot have one without the other, and we must work to find a balance that allows both to thrive"

Tom McMillan, Politician

"We must all recognize that protecting the environment is not an optional thing. It's an imperative, if we want to ensure that our planet remains habitable for future generations"

Tom McMillan, Politician

"The environment is not a partisan issue. It's a people issue, and it affects all of us"

Tom McMillan, Politician

"We are committed to protecting the environment and ensuring sustainable development"

Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Politician

"We are working hard to create a transparent and fair business environment"

Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Politician

"We need to create a conducive environment for businesses to thrive and grow"

Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Politician

"After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital"

Maurice Strong, Businessman

"The Buggles was much more a studio environment idea, which we never actually took on the road"

Geoff Downes, Musician

"The nature of the task needs to be renewed so people just don't feel that all the hard work is in the same groove all the time, under the same circumstances and in the same environment"

Timothy White, Critic

"The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on both sides of the border we've realized that this incredible natural wealth comes with a price"

Dan Miller, Politician

"In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an environment where young people could pursue science in an atmosphere of harmonious purpose and high intellectual challenge"

Sydney Brenner, Scientist

"In the current environment, we find it very difficult to defend America, and so we keep our silence. Because, to be very frank with you, how can we defend America?"

Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Royalty

"In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies"

Kelly Lynch, Actress

"The sterile, arid environment created by truly jarring and discordant signage and gargantuan billboards is a turnoff"

Jonathan Katz, Comedian

"From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence"

Paul Tsongas, Politician

"Conservation of energy also protects our environment"

Lamar S. Smith, Politician

"This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment"

Jim Jeffords, Politician

"I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off"

Peter Gabriel, Musician

"No matter what the situation, winning takes care of a lot of stuff. Things are never perfect, even when you win. But it does make for a lot better environment, for sure"

Mike Quade, Coach

"It is my strong hope that an environment will be created in which both of our countries can cooperate for the realization of a world without nuclear weapons"

Yoshiro Mori

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