Environment Quotes · Page 53

We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.

— Yvon Chouinard

It took me awhile to not be ashamed to be a poet in the business environment, and to be a business person…

— Victoria Chang

“The dream in your heart may be bigger than the environment in which you find yourself.”

— Joel Osteen

I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.

— Natalie Merchant

Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...

— Richard Wright

The only sensible approach to disease and insect control, I think, is to grow sturdy crops in a healthy environment.

— Masanobu Fukuoka

At 47, I can't write from the perspective of a 25-year-old anymore. My life has just changed too much and my environment…

— Mark Kozelek

I grew up in a very bohemian environment in southern Sweden, so I was always, always, always in black jeans.

— Johan Lindeberg

I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's…

— Orlando Bloom

Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia…

— James Howard Kunstler

In a few years, you should be able to plug your American-made plug-in hybrid into the outlet in your garage, so that…

— John F. Kerry

I believe we find ourselves in a period of radical transformation. Regardless of whether it is digitalization, the environment or terrorism. We…

— Emmanuel Macron

A lot of fun stuff happens when you go out on a bike compared to when you're in a car. You're more…

— Stone Gossard

The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being…

— Deepak Chopra

“Our brains are like a muscle, Desmond: they become conditioned to the strain they must endure. We are an exceptionally adaptive species.…

— A.G. Riddle

It is the law of Spirit that we must be that which we would draw to us. If we would draw to…

— Charles Fillmore

To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our "garbage index" - that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will…

— David Korten

We made a sacred covenant to follow the Creator's life plan at all times, which includes the responsibility of taking care of…

— Thomas Banyacya

... placing economic activity in the context of the whole earth requires attention to the question of scale. Bigger is obviously not…

— John B. Cobb

We should certainly not be perpetuating further harm to others or to the environment. Suppose that workers at ExxonMobil are trying to…

— Noam Chomsky

Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our…

— Anonymous

“When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environment…

— Chögyam Trungpa

“term decision-makers,” says Pokorný. “To the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change], we have the atmosphere and in the atmosphere are greenhouse…

— Judith D. Schwartz

An ecosystem, you can always intervene and change something in it, but there's no way of knowing what all the downstream effects…

— Richard Lewontin

Never make a joke or try for humor at someone else's expense. In a high-stakes environment, everyone needs to feel safe.

— Alan Mulally

Net-a-porter is an environment where a woman can really indulge, browsing through more than 160 brands in our fashion playground.

— Natalie Massenet

Normality is the ability to learn by experience, to be flexible, and to adapt to a changing environment.

— Lawrence S. Kubie

What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no…

— Bruce Babbitt

I'm trying to get across the message that don't be afraid of animals, they're just put on this earth to help the…

— Bindi Irwin

Climate change is not an environmental issue, but much more to do with security and economics

— Jonathon Porritt

Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United…

— Prince Charles

I love coaching internationally because I can develop people, but it's hard to do that in the T20 environment.

— Mickey Arthur

Though Africa is not responsible for emitting greenhouse gases, it is suffering the consequences of climate change.

— Francois Hollande

Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.

— Wendell Berry

“Environment is what you make it and destiny is how you react to your environment: whether you try to overcome it or…

— Nick Joaquín

Nature is not a drag on growth. Its protection is an unavoidable prerequisite for sustaining economic development

— Tony Juniper

Awareness is becoming acquainted with environment, no matter where one happens to be.

— Sigurd F. Olson

[On climate change:] What if it's all a hoax and we've created a better world for nothing?

— Naomi Klein

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

— Anonymous

Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever.

— Paul Watson