Environment Quotes

"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

"I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment"

Gale Norton, Public Servant

"My wife and I came to Canada for the 1994 Commonwealth Games and we really liked the B.C. lifestyle and environment. The following year we applied to become permanent residents. We moved here in 1996 after the Atlanta Olympics"

Jonathan Brown, Athlete

"Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget"

John Spratt, Politician

"We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine"

Pierce Brosnan, Actor

"Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics"

Mark Dayton, Politician

"A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly"

Kevin Bacon, Actor

"San Francisco is an interesting place. It's always been such a nice culturally diverse environment, which it still is, but there's a lot of money there now and a lot of dot com's so it's a little different than it used to be"

Les Claypool, Musician

"Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment"

Story Musgrave, Astronaut

"We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people"

George Lincoln Rockwell, Activist

"As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies"

John Boyd Orr, Politician

"I believe we can and should have it all. Lower deficits but higher spending. More peace with a bigger military that goes off and kills terrorists and whatnot. A cleaner environment without forcing SUVs off the road"

Craig Armstrong

"That area environmentally is a waste. You can't do anything. I don't care if the Sierra Club goes out there. It is fully polluted! You're not only going to work to clean up the environment, but also you will put people to work"

Richard M. Daley, Politician

"There's no environment. Use your imagination. There's no fourth wall, whether it's the first time you've told this story about her life, or the sixth time"

Jill Clayburgh, Actress

"Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment"

G. Stanley Hall, Psychologist

"It would be unwise to say the least, irresponsible of us at the TSA, at the Homeland Security Department not to evolve our technology to match the changing threat environment that we inhabit"

Janet Napolitano, Politician

"Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment"

Albert J. Nock, Philosopher

"We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically"

Alan Thicke, Actor

"We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets"

Jane D. Hull, Politician

"We are also fortunate in being in quite a sheltered environment, in terms of people moving on to do other things, because there are relatively few companies in Scotland that are looking for the skill set that we've developed"

David Milne, Artist

"If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment"

Dave Pelzer, Writer

"The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment"

Barry Commoner, Scientist

"It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers"

Arthur Capper, Politician

"People say that to me and I think what unites all my characters is that they are hurt; it's most accurate to say I play characters that are hurt but are responding to their environment"

Ashley Judd, Actress

"Sun's role in the grand scheme of development is to work on the runtime environment and the APIs. The tools we produce are much more for systems programmers, not enterprise developers"

John Fowler, Politician

"I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment"

Dorothy Stang, Clergyman

"A lot of fun stuff happens when you go out on a bike compared to when you're in a car. You're more in the environment. It's enjoyable. Even when It's raining It's still fun"

Stone Gossard, Musician

"Even though I had pushed through the Tango album, it was just not a very good environment to be in on a daily basis. In many ways, this is the best time of my life"

Lindsey Buckingham, Musician

"We recognize the need to adapt to a changing competitive environment"

Sumner Redstone, Businessman

"If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network"

John McAfee, Businessman

"Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment"

Curt Flood, Athlete

"I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment"

Nestor Kirchner, Statesman

"Each environment has its own signature. Sound tells a story: You make choices about what you're hearing, where to look, how you want to feel about what's going on"

Stephen Hopkins

"The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment"

Paul D. Boyer, Scientist

"If you live in a squalid environment, then of course you are going to want to get out of it, you are probably going to want to get into the country, because that's what it does"

Richard Rogers, Architect

"But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality"

Robert E. Howard, Writer

"I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities"

Brian Mulroney, Statesman

"It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment"

David Deutsch, Scientist

"Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one"

David McFadden, Poet

"I'm involved with Recording Artists and Actors Against Drunk Driving. I'm also involved with most children's causes, because children can't help the environment they're in"

Judd Nelson, Actor

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