Environment Quotes

• I'm very obsessed with the energy of New York and the idea of the way people behave in the city versus the way they behave in a natural environment.

  

  Marco Brambilla
  • People
  • Energy
  • City

• The ability of the humans to not only function in space but be very functional when they arrive at their destination, those are the kinds of things we're learning from the science. Fuel transfer technologies and all the things we can learn about the space environment are all valuable to us for pressing on out.

  

  Kevin A. Ford
  • Science
  • Space
  • Learning

• Our external environment no longer seems to have any firm boundaries, any limits, or any positive cues about when to stop consuming anything. I mean, there is a reason that people get fat - it's easy and cheap to get high-calorie, tasty food.

  

  Bob Harper
  • People
  • High
  • Food

• I don't know of any problems countries in Europe are facing - environment, infrastructure, markets, market development, the fifth freedom being digital freedom, border security, terrorism, migration - that can be better solved alone.

  

  Kersti Kaljulaid
  • Freedom
  • Alone
  • Environment

• Defence must be more adaptable, able to respond quickly to the changes in the security environment and the character of conflict.

  

  Bob Ainsworth
  • Character
  • Environment

• I grew up in an environment in Birmingham that was really multicultural, with black kids, Irish kids, Indian kids.

  

  David Harewood
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Black

• I'm dying to go to India... because the culture seems so vastly different from what I'm used to in the States. I would love to do some yoga there. And be amongst people who are so different than myself. There's so much you can learn from people who grew up in a different environment.

  

  Christa B. Allen
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I had to learn how to work in a studio at first because it's a totally different creative environment to the 'bedroom recordings' I'd done before, where I could translate my own ideas without having to explain them to anyone.

  

  Johnny Flynn
  • Work
  • Different
  • Done

• There's enough evidence that variation in sexual orientation is more a function of genes than of environment and for that reason alone, it should be accepted as but another example of human variability.

  

  David Elkind
  • Alone
  • Reason
  • Enough

• I'm not a neat freak. I don't mind things being messy but I mind them being dirty. I just can't relax in a dirty environment. I like things organized.

  

  Leah Remini
  • Mind
  • Dirty
  • Relax

• The need to protect the environment has emerged as an undeniably important priority for me.

  

  Lily Cole
  • Important
  • Environment
  • Priority

• If your environment is not to your liking, change it!

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Change
  • Environment
  • Liking

• We’re very impatient. We don’t believe that in bands you should dwell on the future. Any band that you and I have listened to, if it’s overworked, if it’s thought about before then, it’s never going to happen. I think you have to be writing, you have to be arguing, you have to be in that environment.

  

  Jules De Martino The Ting Tings
  • Band
  • Environment
  • Listened

• There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Environment
  • Competition

• The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.

  

  Kevin Kelly
  • Interesting
  • Environment

• I try to focus on eating seasonally and organic whenever possible. It can be a challenge, but it has a huge effect on my weight, my health, and the environment.

  

  Elle Macpherson
  • Health
  • Focus
  • Challenge

• 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
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Dance

• I think there are shows that are long-running and successful, where some or all of the cast members hate each other, but I think it's a lot easier to have an environment where everyone feels secure and supported to do the best work possible.

  

  Jesse Metcalfe
  • Work
  • Long
  • Hate

• Consumers used to think they had to compromise with solar. It was, 'Okay, I'm doing the right thing for the environment; it's cool to see the panels. I have to compromise on the cost and convenience side.' And now they no longer have to. On the cost side, it's cheaper, and on the convenience side, we set it all up.

  

  Lynn Jurich
  • Up
  • Cool
  • Environment

• The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Art
  • Dialogue
  • Buildings

• 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
  • Believe
  • Environment

• For years, agency officials said that atrazine in drinking water posed almost no risk to humans or the environment.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Water
  • Risk
  • Drinking

• In many countries, schools are preparing students to participate in a democratic environment; yet schools themselves tend to be extremely autocratic, with all high-level decisions being made by adults.

  

  Adora Svitak
  • High
  • Environment

• Transformation always and necessarily calls for a transformation of oneself and one's environment. But I don't see that happening. People are stuck with their own positions that never change.

  

  Yasuhiko Kimura
  • People
  • Environment
  • Transformation

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