Environment Quotes · Page 64

I think calling it climate change is rather limiting. I would rather call it the everything change.

— Margaret Atwood

Giving my contribution to protect and respect the environment, as well as its inhabitants, makes me feel happy.

— Bianca Balti

Old MacDonald had a farm-until America's corporate animal factories plowed it under...

— Deirdre Imus

“Be the cactus, a proof of unsubmission, and blossom amidst the fiercest environment.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.

— Marshall McLuhan

“Architecture is an art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this enviroment produces well being”

— Luis Barragan

Computer models of the climate…[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.

— Freeman Dyson

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

— Seneca the Younger

My son is the main shareholder of my company, and I help him explore some of those opportunities that are related to…

— Maurice Strong

If we destroy their environments and communities, we will lose the answers they have to solving our problems, and to the protection…

— Raul Montenegro

If people want to change, they will. If they don't want to, it's hard to make them do so. The current interest…

— Giorgio Armani

Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result…

— George Bernard Shaw

“There was a burst of enthusiasm for recycling every so often, but it usually didn't extend to the heart or the mind.…

— Ann Brashares

Whenever someone accuses someone of being a racist - which is rare, you have to admit, considering how much racism there is…

— Fran Lebowitz

Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the…

— George Will

I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...More important, however, than the material gains will be…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Ideas and statutes that live only in disembodied intellect are fragile, easily manipulated by both sides in a debate. This is as…

— David George Haskell

Oh, talk as we may of beauty as a thing to be chiselled from marble or wrought out on canvas, speculate as…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

“As far as food is concerned, the great extravagance is not caviar or truffles, but beef, pork and poultry. Some 38 percent…

— Peter Singer

If we look round the world, there seem to be not above six distinct varieties in the human species, each of which…

— Oliver Goldsmith

My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect…

— Bindi Irwin

“The good news is that for hundreds of years humankind has enjoyed a growing economy without falling prey to ecological meltdown. Many…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Suppose, for example that the Alliance of Small Island States, a group that has played a vocal role in climate policy, decided…

— David Keith

We need to raise the level of our game in terms of explaining the planetary warming by infrared absorption of CO2 etc.…

— Judith Curry

, if you maintain a positive, proactive attitude, you will find yourself free, no matter how restricted your environment.

— Senora Roy

In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and…

— Anton Chekhov

The Great American Outdoors Act is landmark conservation legislation to protect our public lands, including right here in New Jersey.

— Mikie Sherrill

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

— Paul Watson

I don't feel like anybody should have to be around that environment where they don't feel comfortable.

— DeAndre Hopkins

I think if you go out with too hard a conservation message, then you convince people that it's all doom and gloom…

— Steve Backshall

The studio's a collaborative environment. I just try to let people bring their own ideas to the songs and see what happens.

— John Darnielle

I am extremely intentional in making the environment around me playful and loving. I have great skill in that area.

— Patch Adams

As a professional snowboarder, my goal is to educate and create awareness around the issues we're facing with climate change.

— Gretchen Bleiler

There isn't a line that you can draw between the air and your body. We are the environment.

— Severn Cullis-Suzuki

Coming out of the Northwest and that environment to shoot hip-hop videos, it's a little atypical of a place to be, you…

— Ryan Lewis

Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community.

— Michael Pollan

Going to the gym on my own I struggle with, but when I'm in there with a teammate or a group of…

— James Spithill

I'm always conscious of the context, the history, the specific environment of anything that I design and what it is going to…

— Michael Bierut

Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.

— Eric Hoffer

As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.

— Rachel Carson