Environment Quotes · Page 50

I am constantly accused of being 'First World.' So what should I do? I can't apologise for my environment, upbringing, aesthetic.

— Karan Johar

I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

— Gale Norton

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

— Kurt Vonnegut

People who are making it to 100 live in environments where they are regularly nudged into physical activity.

— Dan Buettner

Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts…

— Barack Obama

The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.

— B. F. Skinner

I think about sustainability all the time, whether it's with fish or farmers in Eastern Oregon.

— Tom Douglas

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't driving around on a bus and having a campfire kind of adding to the environment…

— Will Smith

People can not be separated from their environment. Living consciousness is not an isolated unit. Human consciousness is increasing the order of…

— Lynne McTaggart

Unfortunately, some in Washington remain tied to the dogma that responsible energy development cannot be achieved without taking a wrecking ball to…

— Roy Blunt

From the recycling miracles in the soil; an army of predators ridding us of unwanted pests; an abundance of life creating a…

— Tony Juniper

A living countryside is not a luxury but a necessity for the human population; if you let conservation go hang until your…

— Simon Barnes

By stopping flying, you don't only reduce your own carbon footprint but also that sends a signal to other people around you…

— Greta Thunburg

Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years, it's a name that the streets taught me, a…

— Mos Def

“The refusal to change by clinging onto superficial material wealth at any cost today, is a certain sentence of death tomorrow for…

— Alastair Agutter

People outside the profession of architecture perhaps often lack the understanding of how their physical environment comes into being. What are the…

— Bjarke Ingels

Sustainability is especially ripe for political controversy and opposition because fundamentally it is a new paradigm that represents significant challenges to the…

— Hazel Henderson

With apologies to the green movement, "sustainability" is a myth. History and archaeology show that societies are always moving to the edge…

— Arthur Demarest

In most ecological systems you have a composite, biotic components as well as abiotic components acting together to form a whole, whereas…

— Ken Yeang

If we're going to improve the environment, the first thing we should do is duck the government. The second thing we should…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The study of how substances alter gene expression is part of the field of epigenetics. Some chemical exposures appear to turn on…

— Sandra Steingraber

Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon…

— Anonymous

“All the property that is necessary to a man for the conservation of the individual and his propagation of the species is…

— Benjamin Franklin

“For me, walking in a hard Dakota wind can be like staring at the ocean: humbled before its immensity, I also have…

— Kathleen Norris

Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero…

— Nicolas Berggruen

The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it

— Simon Jenkins

“While people like to talk about climate change and global warming, I prefer to talk about the fruition of these which is…

— Steven Magee

We are determined to improve the economic environment by getting foreign investors in and by cutting red tape.

— Igor Luksic

The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there,…

— Dick Wolf

The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced.

— Henry W. Kendall

I can't work in an environment where it's a stiff hierarchy; that's not my kind of way.

— Steve McQueen

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and…

— Anonymous

We're like lightbulbs. If bliss starts growing inside you, it's like a light; it affects the environment.

— David Lynch

Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful.

— Jane Goodall

Self-evidently, dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth seeking.

— Mike Hulme

Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are

— Jonathon Porritt

“Uncontrolled human imagination turning into reality may bring about the end of mankind.”

— Steven Magee

We often speak of "deep ecology," but this is also Deep Eco-Psychology: how the environment can remind us of, and help mend,…

— Michael Tobias

Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what…

— Al Jourgensen