Environment Quotes · Page 55

The last years of fading communism provided an ideal environment for Poland's Catholic Church, which acted as an umbrella for dissenters of…

— Norman Davies

I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.

— Andreas Gursky

Seoul strives to make an environment that is safe for foreign residents and also where they can succeed as well.

— Park Won-soon

When you have risk aversion in Japan, the normal day-to-day outflows that happen in a normal market environment slow down.

— Jens Nordvig

“We urgently need to either start increasing the size of our planet, or stop increasing the size of our population.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set…

— Douglas Tompkins

The truth is that climate change is presenting the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced.

— Al Gore

The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.

— Rene Dubos

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

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

— Peter Ferrara

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

— Kevin McCloud

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

— Janusz Kaminski

That was one of the most comfortable things about leaving baseball was to leave the environment. It's very much like a rock…

— Mike Schmidt

I think all the obituaries for newspapers we're hearing are premature. Many papers are belatedly but successfully adapting to the new news…

— Arianna Huffington

“You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life…

— Joseph Grenny

In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules ... but it's impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not…

— Bernard Madoff

We must reach out to villages even in scorching heat with temperature upto 44 C. We must ensure that no girl child…

— Narendra Modi

Our brain and our whole nervous system and our whole body are only created in relation to other people and to the…

— Siri Hustvedt

I have three boys. And I wanted to make sure it connected with them and then those guys who grew up like…

— Carl Hart

I was influenced by the political environment of our country that has just gained freedom from British colonialism. And the seminal figures…

— Deepak Chopra

I've heard plenty of Christians try to answer the why question by going back to the what. "You have to believe because…

— Timothy Keller

Given the nature and magnitude of the challenge, national action alone is insufficient. No nation can address this challenge on its own.…

— Ban Ki-moon

If someone was to introduce hope and idealism into our political system, I think the tension that would create in other areas…

— Jon Stewart

I'm always amazed to hear my more conservative colleagues talking about how they care about life. They're pro-life, but when it comes…

— Nina Turner

I realize that I live in the same environment that I did when I was a kid, but with less junk and…

— Narciso Rodriguez

For years, I referred to climate change as an 'existential' threat to human civilization, and called it a 'crisis.'

— Michael Shellenberger

Sustainability is growth based on forms and processes of development that do not undermine the integrity of the environment on which they…

— Jim MacNeill

I have a tremendous staff around me. It's a really good family vibe in terms of our environment.

— Jill Ellis

The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's…

— Kevin McCloud

We will continue to look for innovative solutions to combat the climate crisis, grow our economy, and leave behind a healthier world…

— Sharice Davids

We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.

— Nicholas Negroponte

The world hasn't ended, but the world as we know it has-even if we don't quite know it yet.

— Bill McKibben

I have been brought up in an environment which was quite an exciting childhood.

— Emily Atack

One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.

— Leonardo da Vinci

When you think about climate change, that means that we won't have an Earth to be lonely on.

— Jim James

I can't think of anything more important than the environment we leave to our children and our children's children.

— Lewis Gordon Pugh

In a world where profit is consistently put before both people and the planet, climate economics has everything to do with ethics…

— Naomi Klein

As sustainability becomes more and more of a concern, we're going to see more plastics.

— Greg Lynn

If we set our priority "the removal of all risk", we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.

— Benjamin Carson

I feel strongly about helping fundraise and donating to causes that help children, animals, and the environment. I wish I could do…

— Mateus Ward