Whether it's in in livability, transportation, or the environment, Portland is always leading the country. We have more to do before we… — Earl Blumenauer Copy Share Image
Rather than risk starting their own businesses, most people seek safer environments, preferring job security to freedom and a steady paycheck to… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms. — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
“Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat’s dream. If you control carbon, you control life.118” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Abstractionism exacerbated the problem but sustainability, if intelligently conceived, could heal the rift between garden, landscape and urban design. Absolute sustainability is… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
I was born into a Christian household, in a parsonage in fact, so I grew up in sort of a missionary atmosphere… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I'm convinced after spending three weeks in China and Tibet, unless the United States gets its act together, our grandchildren will be… — Mort Kondracke Copy Share Image
Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place. — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
The interesting thing I learned was that if you're really concerned about your health, the best decisions for your health turn out… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Yes, I am optimistic about the environment. If you assume business is exerting the most negative influence on the environment and also… — Jeffrey Hollender Copy Share Image
Of course things get stagnant; people get too used to their environment, but that's why I'm in my district every week, at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a human being is filled with happiness and positivity, this is what they radiate out into the world. We each affect… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
There are far too many children in America in need of a loving home who are shuttled between temporary homes and group… — Ronnie Musgrove Copy Share Image
Most people define learning too narrowly as mere 'problem-solving', so they focus on identifying and correcting errors in the external environment. Solving… — Chris Argyris Copy Share Image
I always like my trailer or hotel room to have fresh flowers or pillows I find at a local flea market -… — Chloe Sevigny Copy Share Image
What we do with little kids today will matter in 20 years. If you don't get it right, you will have an… — Kathy Hirsh-Pasek Copy Share Image
No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste,… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
... social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. (...) ... social circumstances… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled. — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
In the so-called civilized world, children are physically, sexually and/or emotionally abused; they are the leaders of our future. When children are… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more important to human beings than an ecologically functioning, life sustaining biosphere on the earth. It is the only habitable… — Joseph Guth Copy Share Image
