Environment Quotes · Page 69

Most people have thought of ... climate change as a problem about the environment that is separate and distinct from problems of…

— Naomi Oreskes

Climate change is an urgent problem and we need to reach a solution as quickly as possible.

— Dean Phillips

“potential: the ability to adapt to and grow into increasingly complex roles and environments.”

— Anonymous

I was a bit of a loudmouth, and I was in an environment where the elements aligned to have kids smack the…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'

— Berkeley Breathed

Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.

— Kurt Vonnegut

A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in…

— Tom Lantos

Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home.

— Patricia Heaton

A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same…

— Gautama Buddha

We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable…

— Seth Godin

If you're going to be at a job environment, you should love it. You shouldn't do it just for money. You should…

— Debbi Fields

Even chimps understand the concept - if a troop of chimps enters a fruit tree, they will only pick the fruits that…

— Jane Goodall

The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take…

— Charles C. Mann

Most of the news about the state of the environment is pretty ugly. This is frightening for me personally, but actually motivational…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

We have great international experts within India telling us that the climate is changing, and actions has to be taken, otherwise China…

— Hans Rosling

The issue of world environment has a special kind of urgency... The issue is one of rich peoples and poor peoples, of…

— Gilbert F. White

The religious urge in man is not a mere passing phase in the history of his spiritual development, but the ultimate source…

— Muhammad Asad

I don't necessarily have any designs in being in politics for the rest of my life. I don't necessarily think that this…

— Markos Moulitsas

The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass.…

— Mark Twain

The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why…

— Edwin Way Teale

When I see vegan food sold in single-use plastic containers, I get frustrated knowing that plastic is not really recycled; it is…

— Karen Dawn

The one thing I will say is management is management. Culture is culture. You have to have a formula for those things.…

— Pete Lembo

It's common to say that trees come from seeds. But how can a tiny seed create a huge tree? Seeds do not…

— Peter Senge

Whenever I watched this movie ["How to Train Your Dragon"], I thought, "That's where I want to be. I want to be…

— Gerard Butler

When I circumnavigated the globe the outcome didn't really matter, it was about a goal I'd set myself, but sustainability is part…

— Ellen MacArthur

You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough

— Wendell Berry

Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself.

— L. Ron Hubbard

There's conflict on every continent, the poverty rate is increasing, the environment's a wreck, and I'm not supposed to be affected?

— Janet Tashjian

I firmly believe that if your environment works for you and your family, it translates into a better life.

— Candice Olson

The Left government has been consistent in its approach to a development process that takes environment into consideration.

— Pinarayi Vijayan

British civil society has a fantastic record of campaigning to push politicians of all colours and countries to step up on climate.

— Ed Davey

Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.

— George Santayana

Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.

— Cornell Capa

“There is earth below your earth, a deep room where gas and oil, rock and stone, circulate like slow blood through a…

— Mathew Henderson

On climate change, the science is clearer about what you need to do to get a real impact than... on counterterrorism.

— Ivo Daalder

I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a…

— Biz Stone

“Corporate governments have set the biological environmental exposure limits far too high regarding all forms of radiation exposures.”

— Steven Magee

“The excellent person manages himself. He will not allow the environment to manage him.”

— Rex Resurreccion

The thing that's made me open my eyes to what was happening to the environment and climate was films and documentaries.

— Greta Thunburg

“The city shall be cleared of any dirt, if every community acts collectively.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita