Environment Quotes
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Today, our developed nations live in opulence, excess and waste, with the consequences that our environment is degrading and the climate is wreaked.
Jacques Dubochet
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The atmosphere defines the environment of sound.
Bill Laswell
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A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.
Vladimir Nabokov
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The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa.
Orson Scott Card
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It's very easy to lose track of the environment around you, to lose touch with the present.
Doug Aitken
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I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.
Debbie Reynolds
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On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically, New Labour was very nervous about regulating business, or requiring it to do anything, even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so.
Geoff Mulgan
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All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent.
Elinor Smith
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It's fascinating to me: when it comes to innovation in policy, it all comes from the states, ... It reflects an abject failure of policy (at the national level) in terms of dealing with energy, the environment or the securities industry. And into that void, the states have stepped.
Eliot Spitzer
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Peace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence.
Narendra Modi
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Absolute faith is not the place of self-affirmation, but the place of self-negation. Life of faith is not limited to our spiritual life. What is important is how our spiritual sensitivity is applied to our relative environment.
Sun Myung Moon
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Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.
Ezra Taft Benson
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It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do.
Duncan Sheik
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India is a unique and special place but a challenging business environment.
Adam Neumann
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Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.
James Lovelock
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I like to have a team environment where I can go anywhere and not threaten management.
Mark V. Hurd
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In every work environment, there will be politics. If you really want to rise to the top, you need to figure out what those politics in your workplace are. Then, you hook it in. You decide what conforms and what does not conform to your personal code.
Kamala Harris
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I grew up in an environment with virtually no Hispanics where you see only people in your culture in custodial jobs. I had a messed up image of what we bring to this nation. My father was known as a pioneering figure in Cuban music, but I still associated him with everything that was negative in my neighborhood. I could not have been more mistaken.
Arturo O'Farrill
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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
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Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so
William Reddington Hewlett
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We cannot tolerate a nuclear Iran. It would be a game changer. Not only would it threaten Israel, a country that is our stalwart ally, but it would also create an environment in which you could set off an arms race in this Middle East.
Barack Obama
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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
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I don't think you can escape the environment we live in now.
Donald Fagen Steely Dan
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Injecting CO2 into an underground reservoir would certainly change the local environment and thus affect the organisms that live there. Some will thrive, and others will suffer. While we should minimize such impacts, they cannot be avoided completely. The same happens when one plows a field, builds a house or a road, or waters a lawn.
Klaus Lackner