Environment Quotes · Page 81

If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today.

— Stephen Girard

Any city has to give some thought to its ambition and brand in order to set sustainability goals.

— Ginni Rometty

We become different people and we adapt to our environments, but that doesn't have anything to do with being creative.

— Paula Scher

I grew up in a modern business environment and did not experience the kind of prejudice that my mother and grandfather experienced.

— Lewis Schiff

“Having mastered our environment, let us now master ourselves and choose our own destiny.”

— C.S. Lewis

Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves.

— Sheena Iyengar

The important things for a mom is that her kids are watched, and are safe and it's a good care environment.

— Gary Myers

Here to create an environment of love, live with passion, and make our most exciting dreams come true

— Marcel Wanders

Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences.

— Timothy Leary

Many of the most science-fictional tools to fight climate change are untested, are almost impossible to truly test at planetary scale -…

— Ramez Naam

Now we have a whole series of problems - energy, environment, proliferation - which go beyond the nation. And we also know…

— Henry A. Kissinger

The most important thing to realize is we're not blank slates at birth. We don't start off with nothing in our heads,…

— Jonathan Haidt

Captain Falco saw the diminishment of biodiversity in our oceans over a span of nearly seven decades. He was dedicated to the…

— Paul Watson

“If peace is to come to earth through change in man's environment, instead of through change in man himself, it will never…

— Philip Mauro

All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows…

— Judith Anderson

Theory and practice are not only interwoven with one’s culture but with the responsibility of shaping the environment, of breaking up social…

— Samuel Mockbee

Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or…

— David Suzuki

“For a century, environmentalism has divided itself into warring camps: conservationists versus preservationists… The struggle pits those who would meddle with nature…

— David Baron

There are two ways. One is to be a puppet, follow the culture, and do whatever they want. That was mentally disturbing…

— Malina Suliman

It was Rachel Carson's famous book 'Silent Spring' that got me involved with the environment. I read it in The New Yorker,…

— Pete Seeger

“Sure, but having jobs doesn't require destroying the environment which makes life possible. I mean, if you have participatory social planning, and…

— Noam Chomsky

Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one's decisions, having…

— Mary Pipher

The catalyst that converts any physical location - any environment if you will - into a place, is the process of experiencing…

— Alan Gussow

My foundation is doing a lot of stuff, in my foundation we are helping the kids, we are helping the community and…

— Victor Wanyama

A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.

— Kevin Bacon

My administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change.

— George W. Bush

Any time you go into a new environment, you have to learn a new system, there are adjustments you have to make.

— Baron Davis

It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.

— Robert D. Kaplan

I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his…

— James Russell Lowell

We are comfortable in this environment. Why not make ourselves comfortable over there?.

— Celine Dion

We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning …

— Barack Obama

The brain is an important gateway by which the social environment impacts on people's health through the mind.

— Michael Marmot

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the…

— Arthur Erickson

What I try to do is give each actor an environment in which they can do their best work.

— Curtis Hanson

We've had to be innovative, in terms of reaching the customer, and that's all been about making it an experiential shopping environment.

— Sara Davies

We’re the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.'

— Jay Inslee

We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.

— Norbert Wiener

Orange is the color of the sun. It is vital and a good color generally, indicating thoughtfulness and consideration of others.

— Edgar Cayce

creation, like vengeance, is God's. It is dangerous when man tampers with it.

— Marjorie Benton Cooke

Climate change disasters will displace more and more. Those who are most exposed are the poorest.

— Jan Egeland