Environment Quotes · Page 95

Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.

— Dick Cheney

Whenever you get into a new environment, it's scary. You don't know the people; you're not really comfortable with the machine that…

— Jonathan Groff

Honestly, the Carolina games I played in every year were more intense than the national championship games I played in - they…

— Christian Laettner

The environment does not determine man's culture; it merely sets the outer limits and at the same time offers opportunities.

— Peter Farb

You don't know how it would have turned out if [kids] would grown up in Chicago instead, and a more normal environment.

— Barack Obama

“We do not own the Earth. We borrow it from the generations who will remember what we did here.”

— Lawrence Nault

The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the…

— Maria Montessori

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.

— Bertrand Russell

I would imagine that what you try to do is to - is to be as sensitive to the environment that surrounds…

— Kehinde Wiley

You can rise above it. This country gives you opportunity if you want to take it, so don't blame your environment. I…

— Vince McMahon

The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own…

— George Bernard Shaw

In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can…

— Ram Dass

Nobody...likes talking about enforceable international protocols and yet unless there is a real change in attitude, we have to contemplate those very…

— Rowan Williams

I learned from my parents to revere nature. Their way of teaching my siblings and I to respect the environment was to…

— Deb Haaland

The forces of things, the beings of the Universe, interpenetrate, divide and unite themselves according to eternal laws. But the laws of…

— Heinrich Zschokke

Climate scientists have long pointed to the Southwest as one of the places in the U.S. that is most vulnerable to global…

— Jeff Goodell

Global climate change is real and we have a limited time to change our behavior or live with the consequences. We can…

— Kyra Sedgwick

Lots of people look for happiness through sensations, whether it's through sex, the taste of food, the sound of music, the sensations…

— Ken Keyes Jr

Most of the time for me, you're learning what not to do, as opposed to what to do. You never know what…

— Campbell Scott

For the fact is that organisms are creative and make their environments in such a way as to become virtually part of…

— Peter Dickens

Children who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS are not only just as deserving of an education as any other children, but they…

— Harry Belafonte

There can be no solution to the challenge of climate change that is not global. But if we can come together in…

— Ban Ki-moon

“Who cares about sustainability, being fair, or ethics? 'Screw you, I got mine.' That has been the rallying cry of humanity since…

— Dan Marshall

I don't think there's any evidence to support that kind of criticism. I think that what we have attempted to do is…

— George Deukmejian

The ability of communities to meet their most basic needs - food, water, energy, sanitation - is threatened by climate change.

— Patricia Espinosa

“If you don't know your history, you don't know what you are talking about!”

— Anonymous

“When we allow people to come into our environment, God gives us His environment”

— Sunday Adelaja

Most players, they want to be coached, they want discipline, and they want an environment in which they can play their best.

— Tom Thibodeau

A good rule of thumb is that any environment that consistently leaves you feeling bad about who you are is the wrong…

— Laurie Helgoe

People think that climate change is something happening to somebody else at some other time but it's coming home.

— Gail Bradbrook

No-one can do everything for the environment, but every-one can do something to make a better world.

— Arron Wood

The romantic view would be that nomads are wonderful people, better than us; they care about the environment.

— Robyn Davidson

If solar and wind farms are needed to protect the natural environment, why do they so often destroy it?

— Michael Shellenberger

The most important thing to the Christian community is not the environment but evangelism.

— John Hagee

“People forget that humans are animals too, that we're just as much a part of the wild places as the things that…

— Vincent H. O Neil

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

— James Lovelock

We're not locked in to these conditions that degrade the environment, and jeopardize the future of our children.

— Dennis Kucinich

I'm doing my work in an environment that's ultimately about dollars and cents.

— Marguerite Moreau

Mother Earth is hurting. And she needs a generation of thoughtful, caring and active kids like all of you to protect her…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

The intersection of spiritual, dark music and radical ecology is quite natural.

— Kristoffer Rygg