Environment famous quotes

Surgery is just stabbing in a courteous environment
-- A.L. Kennedy

#Environment #Stabbing #Surgery

Over the long term, it is more profitable to do the right thing for the environment than to pollute it.
-- Aaron Feuerstein

#Long #Climate #Environment

The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Struggle #Today #Environment

Many of our partners are here and this is where the world's expertise on environment and the wider sustainability agenda often and regularly gathers. Here is where international initiatives frequently start and are nurtured. Geneva is one of the hubs where global programs can be often most effectively managed.
-- Achim Steiner

#World #Agendas #Environment

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.
-- Agnes Smedley

#Environment #Made #Inarticulate

The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.
-- Al Gore

#Paris #Attention #Environment

There can be no question about whether we should or should not transform our society in the direction of sustainability.
-- Alan AtKisson

#Our Society #Environment #Sustainability

Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.
-- Alan Ball

#World #Environment #Window

I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
-- Alan Ball

#Environment #Progressive #Grew Up

Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.
-- Alan Watts

#Looks #World #Environment

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
-- Albert Allen Bartlett

#Race #Inability #Environment

So much beauty in the world, so few eyes to see it.
-- Albert Cossery

#Eye #World #Environment

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
-- Albert Einstein

#Nature #Environment #Stills

Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Nature #Environment #Prosperity

We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Risk #Environment #Drink

It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.
-- Aleister Crowley

#World #Stuff #Environment

Trees are your best antiques
-- Alexander Smith

#Tree #Antiques #Environment

I still think that being thrown in a very competitive environment where you really have to see what you are made of - certainly when you come out of nowhere - was good for me.
-- Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

#Thinking #Environment #Made

Children who are respected learn respect. Children who are cared for learn to care for those weaker than themselves. Children who are loved for what they are cannot learn intolerance. In an environment such as this, they will develop their own ideals, which can be nothing other than humane, since they grew out of the experience of love.
-- Alice Miller

#Children #Care #Environment

Eating is an environmental act.
-- Alice Waters

#Environmental #Environment #Eating

But we can’t control the environment; all we can control is the way we react to it.
-- Alison Levine

#Way #Environment

We must protect our most precious resource, our environment, for future generations.
-- Alma Adams

#Generations #Environment #Resources

I think one of the greatest gifts you can give to someone is just access to the possibility of freedom that you don't have to be totally depressed and enslaved by your own environment.
-- Amanda Palmer

#Thinking #Giving #Environment

If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it.
-- Amory Lovins

#Energy #Littles #Environment

Karl Marx once said, 'The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.' Marx was wrong. The last capitalist to be hanged shall be the one who donated the rope, and then lobbied for his own hanging.
-- Amy Ridenour

#Rope #Lasts #Environment

I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.
-- Andreas Gursky

#Environment #Individual #Humans

I think a person permeates a spot, and a lost presence makes the environment timeless to me, keeps an area alive. It pulsates because of that.
-- Andrew Wyeth

#Thinking #Alive #Environment

I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to.
-- Ang Lee

#Outsiders #Environment #Drifters

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.
-- Anna Deavere Smith

#Path #Environment #Feels

Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic - less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I don't agree.
-- Anna Maria Chavez

#Nonprofits #Nimble #Environment

Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price
-- Ansel Adams

#Environment

My friends come from many species.
-- Anthony D. Williams

#Nature #Environment #Species

In my view, the holy is not based so much on the physical environment, but on the experience and perceptions of it.
-- Anthony Lawlor

#Views #Perception #Environment

I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.
-- Anton Yelchin

#Community #Environment #Capitalist

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
-- Archibald MacLeish

#Thinking #Environment #Moments

For most of the wild things on earth, the future must depend on the conscience of mankind.
-- Archie Carr

#Earth #Environment #Mankind

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

#Mars #Done #Environment

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.
-- Arnold J. Toynbee

#Animal #Rabbits #Environment

We have to show leadership in protecting our environment so that we have a future for our children and grandchildren.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

#Children #Environment #Shows

Sustainability is treating ourselves and our environment as if we are to live on this earth forever.
-- Arron Wood

#Forever #Earth #Environment

Making ourselves the solution, rather than part of the problem is our greatest challenge.
-- Arron Wood

#Challenges #Problem #Environment

No-one can do everything for the environment, but every-one can do something to make a better world.
-- Arron Wood

#World #Environment

Everything I do is the environment.
-- Arthur Boyd

#Environment

If you want an innovative environment, hire innovative people, listen to them tell you what they want, and do it.
-- Arthur D. Levinson

#People #Want #Environment

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature
-- Auguste Rodin

#Artist #Ugly #Environment

As long as you're in an environment where the worth of the project isn't based on the project but what its predecessors did, it's not truly inclusive.
-- Ava DuVernay

#Long #Environment #Projects

While other professions are concerned with changing the environment to suit the weakened body, chiropractic is concerned with strengthening the body to suit the environment.
-- B. J. Palmer

#Suits #Body #Environment

...this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal...
-- Barack Obama

#Ocean #Energy #Environment

The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
-- Barbara Sher

#Success #Winner #Environment

When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
-- Barry Commoner

#Thinking #Environment #Situation

Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
-- Barry Commoner

#Pay #Environment #Natural

What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
-- Barry Commoner

#Powerful #Needs #Environment

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch. If you don't put something in the ecology, it's not there.
-- Barry Commoner

#Lunch #Environment #Ecology

While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.
-- Barry Goldwater

#People #Stronger #Environment

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
-- Baruch Spinoza

#Nature #Philosophical #Environment

A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil's environment who treats him with respect.
-- Bel Kaufman

#Teacher #Adults #Environment

I grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did.
-- Ben Affleck

#Home #Environment #Grew Up

The person who has the most to do what happens to you in life is you. Not somebody else and not the environment.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Life Is #Environment #Persons

If we set our priority "the removal of all risk", we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Priorities #Risk #Environment

In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules ... but it's impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable period of time.
-- Bernard Madoff

#Today #Impossible #Environment

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

#Impact #Environment #Academic

Everyone needs help from everyone.
-- Bertolt Brecht

#Needs #Helping #Environment

Usually, I fly in the day before a concert so your voice can acclimate to the new environment.
-- Betty Buckley

#Voice #Environment #Concerts

I'm just a product of my environment, and it comes out in the music.
-- Big Boi

#Environment

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

#Environment #Individual #Intensity

The atmosphere defines the environment of sound.
-- Bill Laswell

#Atmosphere #Sound #Environment

The world hasn't ended, but the world as we know it has-even if we don't quite know it yet.
-- Bill McKibben

#Energy #World #Environment

I've observed that if individuals who prevail in a highly competitive environment have any one thing in common besides success, it is failure—and their ability to overcome it.
-- Bill Walsh

#Overcoming #Common #Environment

I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.
-- Biz Stone

#College #Needs #Environment

Women who love women, who choose women to nurture and support and to create a living environment in which to work creatively and independently, are lesbians.
-- Blanche Wiesen Cook

#Support #Environment #Sexuality

The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million other species we share this planet with, let alone our own species, then who can?
-- Bob Brown

#Reality #Lucky #Environment

I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.
-- Brian Mulroney

#Vision #Canada #Environment

This is a tough environment, and it's tough for everybody.
-- Brit Hume

#Literature #Tough #Environment

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

#Drama #Promise #Environment

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

#Bad Relationship #Stuff #Environment

People need to realize that their thoughts are more primary than their genes, because the environment, which is influenced by our thoughts, controls the genes.
-- Bruce H. Lipton

#People #Needs #Environment

I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.
-- Bryan Procter

#Sea #Dull #Environment

I firmly believe that if your environment works for you and your family, it translates into a better life.
-- Candice Olson

#Believe #Environment #Better Life

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
-- Carl Andre

#Artist #Trying #Environment

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.
-- Carl Andre

#Way #Environment

Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.
-- Carl Rogers

#Men #Culture #Environment

I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
-- Carlos Ghosn

#Thinking #Generations #Environment

Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.
-- Carlos Ghosn

#Regulation #Environment

Clutter forces the brain to consume energy. Create uncluttered environments instead.
-- Carmine Gallo

#Brain #Energy #Environment

As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.
-- Carol Leifer

#Rejection #Environment #Fear Of Rejection

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.
-- Carol Moseley Braun

#Children #Environment #Failing

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.
-- Cedric Price

#Architecture #Environment #Distortion

We are comfortable in this environment. Why not make ourselves comfortable over there?.
-- Celine Dion

#Comfort #Why Not #Environment

It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself.
-- Charles Darwin

#Intellectual #Able #Environment

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
-- Charles Horton Cooley

#Travel #Self #Environment

We are the environment.
-- Charles Panati

#Environment

Of course things get stagnant; people get too used to their environment, but that's why I'm in my district every week, at meetings with my constituents.
-- Charles Rangel

#People #Environment #Week

All modeling efforts will inevitably converge on the result most likely to lead to further funding.
-- Charlie Martin

#Effort #Energy #Environment

I always get involved with the environment because once you go past the tipping point with the environment, you don't get it back.
-- Chris Noth

#Past #Tipping #Environment

In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a global whole - a whole which can be identified by everyone who is part of it.
-- Christopher Alexander

#Unique #Different #Environment

Everyone is aware that most of the built environment today lacks a natural order, an order which presents itself very strongly in places that were built centuries ago
-- Christopher Alexander

#Order #Today #Environment

Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct.
-- Christopher Cokinos

#Forget #Environment #Parakeets

I am withdrawing because I have come to view the part of the IPCC to which my expertise is relevant as having become politicized. In addition, when I have raised my concerns to the IPCC leadership, their response was simply to dismiss my concerns.
-- Christopher Landsea

#Views #Energy #Environment

I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it.
-- Clarence Thomas

#Religious #Proud #Environment

All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.
-- Claude Bernard

#Environment #Constant #Internals