Environment Quotes
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California's coastal economy and environment are just as important as Florida's.
Lois Capps
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What can I do to create a healthy work environment? Because we have all been groomed to the normalization of violence and the normalization of abuse. And we refuse to live in that society.
Jessica Chastain
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I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.
Bob Newhart
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'The best environment for diplomacy is found where mutual confidence between governments exists...'
Dean Acheson
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I think growing up in the States and Australia, we were exposed to a lot of different types of things. I used to go to Gilman to watch punk shows, and it's a complete different environment - you were inspired by so many different things, whereas in Hong Kong, there is nothing for anybody.
Daniel Wu
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In many ways, our homes act as one big drain that, through our daily relationship with water, carries many toxic substances into our waterways and the environment.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
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Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment.
Maurice Strong
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People in London are so much more exposed to danger, or bad things. It took me quite a long time to grow up in that environment.
Eliot Paulina Sumner
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If I'm in an unusual or extreme social environment, I always want to know what it's like to grow up there and experience it as normal, everyday life. And I want to know what sort of adults these children are going to turn into.
Mary Ellen Mark
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Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work.
Mark McKinnon
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The commercial media are to the mental environment what factories are to the physical environment
Kalle Lasn
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To imagine secret societies and conspiracy is a way not to react to the social and political life. Because you say, "We don't know who they are. We cannot react without reasoning." So it is a way to keep people far from the political environment.
Umberto Eco
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We live in an environment in which connectivity and cyberspace are transforming all workplaces, including the humanitarian workplace.
Peter Maurer
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He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
Jack London
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When push comes to shove, my children always come first, and I am lucky that I work in an environment that respects that.
Marianne Lake
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Every human should have the idea of taking care of the environment, of nature, of water. So using too much or wasting water should have some kind of feeling or sense of concern. Some sort of responsibility and with that, a sense of discipline.
Dalai Lama
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For man to become successful, for man to establish himself as the ruler of the planet, it was necessary for him to use his brain as something more than a device to make the daily routine of getting food and evading enemies a little more efficient. Man had to learn to control his environment.'
Isaac Asimov
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The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth.
Buzz Aldrin
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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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There's no reason any company should be limited by its physical environment.
Joe Gebbia
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I think we can create an environment where America can kind of get back on its economic feet.
Bill Flores
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Our mental environment is a common-property resource like the air or the water. We need to protect ourselves from unwanted incursions into it, much the same way we lobbied for non-smoking areas ten years ago.
Kalle Lasn
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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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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