Environment Quotes · Page 106

Theres no environment I can think of that would have remained constant enough to preserve dinosaur DNA.

— Hendrik Poinar

I don't think a worship of nature is necessary to mount a really strong defense of the environment.

— Tim DeChristopher

a society driven mainly by selfish individualism has all the potential for sustainability of a collection of angry scorpions in a bottle.

— David Ehrenfeld

“Consider the impact of your personal care choices on our health, water supply and our wider environment.”

— Joanna Runciman

During the Holocene, we undoubtedly altered our environment significantly, clearing land, diverting water and building great cities.

— Johan Rockstrom

To make a decision you need to be in a perfect environment: you have to be motivated and surrounded by the right…

— Niki Lauda

Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or…

— John Dewey

“A tree that is planted by the riverside blossoms all through because its environment has taking it beyond the realm of seasons.”

— Ikechukwu Izuakor

Usually the way I think someone is radicalized is through a personal experience. The thing about environmental activism is that we are…

— Peter Sarsgaard

Thus, human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of the kind that could not have happened in the…

— Roger Revelle

Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that…

— Peter Atkins

["War Horse"] does have action as well, but we allow the audience to appreciate the environment where these characters are from because…

— Janusz Kaminski

Because I live in the countryside, I want a building which encourages me to have a fully formed relationship with the environment.…

— Kevin McCloud

While I am not a scientist, and write primarily on economics, tax policy and budget issues, I have been fascinated over the…

— Peter Ferrara

We don't think of ourselves as do-gooders or altruists. It's just that somehow we're trying our best to be run with some…

— Craig Newmark

Comprehensive climate legislation must be passed so that we can ensure a world where this and future generations can experience the bliss…

— Gloria Reuben

I started studying herbalism and edible plants that existed in the wild. And then I realized, "Okay, cool. I know how to…

— Shailene Woodley

We have to create a sustainable environment, worldwide, and we're not doing it. The best thing we can do with the rest…

— E. O. Wilson

When geologists announced the beginning of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, humans destroying the environment, one of the main things they…

— Noam Chomsky

Discovery is adventure. There is an eagerness, touched at times with tenseness, as man moves ahead into the unknown. Walking the wilderness…

— William O. Douglas

“Life has had to deal with environmental change, especially climate change, since the beginning of its existence on Earth. Species adjust or…

— Daniel Botkin

Civilization is in no immediate danger of running out of energy or even just out of oil. But we are running out…

— Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran

Life has evolved to thrive in environments that are extreme only by our limited human standards: in the boiling battery acid of…

— Jill Tarter

Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the…

— Mary Roach

I'm very obsessed with the energy of New York and the idea of the way people behave in the city versus the…

— Marco Brambilla

Health is not luck. We have an innate ability to maintain good health if we establish the optimal environment for healing.

— Joel Fuhrman

The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.

— Mahavira

The next four years, there won't be a week that goes by without a discussion of climate change. It's a naturally Conservative…

— Tim Yeo

The way that NetBeans is architected, it's not so much a tool as a tool environment.

— James Gosling

The mind-brain is lived only from a first-person perspective, and it is a dynamic, plastic organ that changes in relation to the…

— Siri Hustvedt

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

— Arron Wood

I enjoy watching children interact with the world, the way they engage their environment without any filters, learned models, or cynicism.

— Keith Murray

For me, environment is all. Place — as I was saying about my students — is absolutely essential.

— William Goyen

One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.

— Mark Twain

Climate change: Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics

— Brian Cox

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

— Aldous Huxley

A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the…

— Aldo Leopold

“Within this stable and secure environment people had the ability and the incentive to pursue their own economic interests.”

— Edward A. Hudson

We should be building houses like we build cars - controlled environment, huge amount of research and development, high levels of quality…

— George Clarke

I have always been inspired by the American peace movement because it is operating in a very hard and militarist environment.

— Mairead Corrigan