Environment Quotes · Page 71

The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.

— Marshall McLuhan

So, what's a nudge? A nudge is some small feature of the environment that attracts our attention and alters our behavior.

— Richard Thaler

“Climate change is a normal, natural and perpetual process which occurs, and has always occurred, with sublime indifference to man's puny input.”

— James Delingpole

“We do not need to attend classroom training programmes for everything. Observation opens the windows of knowledge around us”

— Sukant Ratnakar

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

— Anton Chekhov

So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live.

— Steve Irwin

There's no question that, um, you know, the oceans have risen, right? And the climate change part is, is a real part…

— Michael Grimm

The financial system as a whole has had the characteristics of a Ponzi scheme if we look at it fundamentally.

— Tim Lee

Being in the studio, it's more of a controlled environment, where you can be Salvador Dali and sit back and look at…

— Zakk Wylde

There is a whole crazy world around you. You can't control it, so don't even try. Because the more you try to…

— Frederick Lenz

The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions…

— Tullian Tchividjian

I'm guessing that musicals didn't make sense anymore because of the changes in the political environment that began in the late Sixties,…

— Carmen Ejogo

“Not every dream grows on every land, so you got to watch out! “Sugar cane” dreams should find the environment where there…

— Israelmore Ayivor

The growth that we want is one that brings real benefits to the people, raises quality and efficiency of development, and contributes…

— Li Keqiang

And the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are…

— John McCain

Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn't know. I already…

— Raf Simons

The record-breaking extreme weather events causing chaos across the globe should be a wake-up call. The transition to a low-carbon economy will…

— Christiana Figueres

We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their…

— Aaron Antonovsky

We have embarked globally on a path of unsustainable development. Our lifestyles, the way we produce goods and services, are all part…

— Rajendra K. Pachauri

“Compared to forest or aquatic ecosystems, grassland is unstable. It requires rather precise geological and climatic conditions, and if these conditions are…

— David Rains Wallace

We need to remind ourselves that our ultimate goal is not to reduce greenhouse gases or global warming per se but to…

— Thomas P.M. Barnett

People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality…

— Wendell Berry

In the midst of global crises such as pollution, wars and famine, kindness may be too easily dismissed as a 'soft' issue,…

— Bo Lozoff

I have a lot of friends who served in the regular army for a long time. Quite a few of my friends…

— Garth Nix

“All living things affect their environment by making and transforming chemicals, and”

— Peter Godfrey-Smith

Our relationship to the environment matters, our relationship to animals matters, and our relationship to culture matters.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I have a comprehensive energy policy, but it really does include fighting climate change, because I think that is a serious problem.

— Hillary Clinton

We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle.

— Klaus Topfer

We're not protecting the environment for the sake of the fishes and the birds. We're protecting it for our own sake.

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

In my own upbringing, my family lacked the ability to provide a stable, nurturing environment.

— Ronnie Musgrove

Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct.

— Christopher Cokinos

We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon…

— Desmond Tutu

I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.

— Natalie Imbruglia

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the…

— Jack Vance

“He was not trained in conservation - he was, after all, no more than an archaeologist - a digger!”

— Penelope Fitzgerald

As a kid, you're so at the mercy of the people around you, the people raising you, your environment.

— Susan Kelechi Watson

Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually.

— John M. McHugh

It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less…

— Richard Wright

People say you can't make movies about your politics or the environment. And, generally speaking, I completely divide those sides of my…

— Edward Norton

The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve…

— Paul Watson