Environment Quotes · Page 116

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his…

— Leslie Stephen

In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.

— Al Gore

So much of today's food is based on the exploitation of animals and the environment. Yes, it's cheap, but at what cost?

— Steve Ells

...this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal...

— Barack Obama

Had an audition for a pilot today, but realized I could save gas and help the environment by pissing up a rope…

— Dana Gould

People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.

— David Attenborough

Over and over again, we must stress that a healthy ecology is the basis for a healthy economy.

— Claudine Schneider

We are hopeful that you will want to visit our planet in the near future. We are in the process of restoring…

— Jeremy Rifkin

The election in Iraq clearly demonstrates that Iraqi people are like people everywhere. They desire to create a future in an environment…

— John Ensign

I think DOOM had just the right mix of elements that keep people coming back to it: great monsters, excellent weapons with…

— John Romero

The mountains are exceptional places for, as the natural environment is concerned, they are the concentration of the wildest possible variety of…

— Wojciech Kurtyka

Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past…

— Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

Climate change is, over the longer term, our greatest national security challenge. We have to do all we can to slow it…

— Wesley K. Wark

“When we feel related with our environment we are able to develop and improve the quality of our involvement, since connectedness and…

— Erik Pevernagie

Cities can be the engine of social equity and economic opportunity. They can help us reduce our carbon footprint and protect the…

— Ban Ki-moon

There are two ways you can receive energy from your environment: One is molecules bumping against you. That's the air. The other…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The metaphor I routinely use is polar bears in the Sahara desert. You take creatures adapted to the cold and put them…

— David Katz

Any attempt to break with the past, or with existing social structures, is a failure if it leads to a bored, listless,…

— John Carroll

Imitation both unconscious and conscious is par excellence the educational method of the family. It is plain that a considerable part of…

— Elsie Clews Parsons

There is a growing threat to the environment, to the vegetation, animals, water and air. Sacred Scripture hands us the image of…

— Pope John Paul II

There's a small worm called Loa Loa Filariasis. This parasite can survive in one environment exclusively- namely, underneath the skin and inside…

— David Attenborough

I think I've grown up in a mixed environment, and maybe a lot of the time I haven't really belonged anywhere in…

— Neneh Cherry

The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The…

— Michael Pollan

What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change.

— David Miliband

I am definitely quick to adapt. I am not scared to come into a new environment.

— Dasha Zhukova

In America, I don't know how much longer the environment is going to exist. I sort of strongly believe that we're in…

— Winona Ryder

Let everyone who makes garden plans frequently insert the letters C.P. in them as a reminder, the same standing for climate permitting.

— Mabel Osgood Wright

I really like to travel when I write. Something about seeing new things and being in new cultures and environments provokes new…

— Josh Radnor

The climate is changing; I don't think you can deny that. But climate has always changed.

— Ryan Zinke

The environment issue is hydra-headed and complicated, but it is of immense importance that we understand how fast the world is changing.

— Richard Lamm

Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.

— Ronald Reagan

We tell prospective hires, 'If you want an environment that is never going to change, don't come here. This is not the…

— Michael Dell

We are generally pleased that we were able to report a solid quarter in a tough advertising environment,.

— Gary Pruitt

“serenity and stability are results of your choices and judgment, not your environment.”

— Ryan Holiday

Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments.

— Peter Garrett

From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.

— Ellsworth Huntington

“Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I would say that in the 1990s, I don't think the environment was enough to make anyone ambitious and aspirational. It was…

— Ronnie Screwvala

This country has wasted too many years pretending it had the luxury of debating climate change.

— Bill de Blasio