Environment Quotes

• In the long term, it will be the human race that must take responsibility for the development of sustainable life-styles and economies that are not insistent on continuing growth and a throw away society.

  

  David de Kretser
  • Responsibility
  • Growth
  • Economy

• Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Behavior
  • Blame
  • Source

• The environment in a writer's room, I've really come to feel, should be some form of democracy.

  

  Jason Katims
  • Environment
  • Democracy

• The Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an age-old dilemma that pits the demands of security against the desire for freedom.

  

  Misha Glenny
  • Internet
  • Demand
  • Complicated

• We've been trying to sell it. I know there won' be the same crowd that there is in Camp Randall next year. But we're trying to get as many people in the stands as possible and make it a game-day environment.

  

  Bret Bielema
  • Game
  • Crowd
  • Sell

• A willingness to be exposed and vulnerable. One of the major limitations of imagination’s fruits is the fear of standing out. It is more than a fear of criticism. It is anxiety at being alone, of being in a position where one can rely little on others, a position that puts one’s own resources to the test, a position where one will have to take total responsibility for one’s own response to the environment. Leaders must not only not be afraid of that position; they must come to love it.

  

  Edwin H. Friedman
  • Love
  • Criticism
  • Anxiety

• On good days, I can see the inherent goodness in people, and that human beings have a high capacity to learn and adapt. But things like the environment, nuclear weapons and ideas like peak oil - if you think about them too much, they can really freak you out.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Goodness

• I think there are changes in the environment. There are a lot of items to contribute to it.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • Environment

• The difference between a healthy environment and an unhealthy environment can be summed up in one word, and it's not 'CO2' or 'climate' or 'temperature.' It's 'development.' Whether you're drinking clean drinking water, listening to a thunderstorm with pleasure instead of fear, or going to the Grand Canyon, you should be thanking Big Coal, Big Oil, and Big Gas.

  

  Alex Epstein
  • Environment
  • Difference
  • Development

• My favourite artists are the ones who are human, and you know they're not in a failure-proof environment.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Environment
  • Human
  • Artists

• I still remember him fondly, there in the doorway. He was absolutely the first person to show me how comfortable it is to arrive in a strange, potentially hostile environment, and discover that you have been preceded by your reputation, that you don't have to do anything to be accepted, that your name is known, that everyone knows about you, and it's the others, the strangers, who must strive to win your favor, and not you theirs.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Remember
  • Strange
  • Discover

• Leaders create an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

  

  Elliott Jaques
  • Opportunity
  • Leaders
  • Reward

• School is such an encouraging and safe environment. It's filled with idealism and just really working on your craft. When you enter the business world - where art meets commerce - it can become quite depressing.

  

  Troy Garity
  • World
  • School
  • Art

• Our task was not to conduct a full-fledged military operation there [in Crimea], but it was to ensure people's safety and security and a comfortable environment to express their will. We did that. But it would not have been possible without the Crimeans' own strong resolution.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Strong
  • Military
  • Safety

• We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago. But no purpose is served by post-mortems. With visionary zeal but the greatest realism, we must now address ourselves to the vast problems that confront us.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Purpose
  • Problems
  • Realism

• Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the capacity of their environments to sustain them.

  

  William E. Rees
  • Inspiring
  • Capacity
  • Easter

• Given that it takes up to 16 pounds of grain to produce one pound of meat, I think we can also go a long way toward ending hunger and saving the environment as well.

  

  Bryant Terry
  • Environment
  • Meat
  • Grain

• Pray to God for gladness. Be glad as children, as the birds of heaven. And let not the sin of men confound you in your doings. Fear not that it will wear away your work and hinder its being accomplished. Do not say, 'Sin is mighty, wickedness is mighty, evil environment is mighty, and we are lonely and helpless, and evil environment is wearing us away and hindering our good work from being done.' Fly from that dejection, children!

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Fear
  • Pray Of God
  • Birds Of Heaven

• I'm also always thinking about the score as a recording, as opposed to a performance that can be recreated in a live environment. Some of what I write could of course be played in a concert hall, but for the needs of a film I don't consider that.

  

  Geoff Zanelli
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Performances

• Environment, homelessness, infrastructure and immigration - I'm very focused on all four, which are critical to the success of Los Angeles.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Success
  • Environment
  • Immigration

• We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise made and kept is difficult to overstate.

  

  Seth Godin
  • World
  • Difficult
  • Promise

• I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment.

  

  Raul Julia
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Wife

• Ultimately, the decision to save the environment must come from the human heart. The key point is a call for a genuine sense of universal responsibility that is based on love, compassion and clear awareness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Heart
  • Responsibility
  • Decision

• If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.

  

  Steven Johnson
  • Environment
  • Innovation
  • Incentives

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