Environment Quotes · Page 83

Abortion on demand has, in my judgment, contributed significantly to an environment in our country in which life has become very cheap.

— Robert Casey

Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.

— Alice Waters

There is so much uncertainty out there, and the government in Washington doesn't seem to get it. What's needed is a new…

— Rob Portman

Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.

— Edward Norton

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

— Cedric Price

Resource extraction impacts a global environment that is increasingly at severe risk.

— Noam Chomsky

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

— John James Audubon

It's important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way.

— Norah Jones

I'm not an ascetic and please don't use the word zen, which is so lightly bandied about these days. Being zen .…

— Pierre Berge

I think my being a combat pilot, being a woman who has had to break down barriers and succeed in a male-dominated…

— Martha McSally

I'd much rather be in the expanse of the wilderness because it feels like part of my world. It's a unique perspective.…

— Sarah McLachlan

When I was a Republican governor, he was obviously a Democratic president, but on issue after issue after issue, President Obama was…

— Charlie Crist

When we speak of maintaining clean water supplies and a sustainable use of the environment, we should also stress the elimination of…

— Margaret Cuomo

I was brought up in a football environment where we saw a lot of racism - whether it was abuse from other…

— Chris Hughton

You must somehow understand that we as horsemen can do very little to teach the horse. What we can do is to…

— Monty Roberts

Energy will be the immediate test of our ability to unite this Nation, and it can also be the standard around which…

— Jimmy Carter

The combat environment has the effect of flattening out civilian identities. If you're young or old, or a graduate from Harvard or…

— Sebastian Junger

Northeastern and most coastal states will vote for the candidate who is more closely aligned with international cooperation and engagement, secularism and…

— Steven Pinker

Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti-environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total…

— Marshall McLuhan

I believe there are huge numbers of people in this country who would be willing to have radical changes in our economic…

— Howard Zinn

The ability of Republican leaders to rile up their base - helped along by folks like Rush Limbaugh, some commentators on Fox…

— Barack Obama

My birthday is May 10. I'm so Taurus, you would not even believe. All the Tauruses I know have this connection to…

— Francisco Costa

I use all types of instruments, really depending on the film. Instrument choices are very much tied to lighting, colors, art direction,…

— Douglas Pipes

The same individuals who are doing primary research in the role of humans on the climate system are then permitted to lead…

— Roger A. Pielke

Protecting the environment is just as important a priority as the economic imperatives.

— Albert II, Prince of Monaco

Climate change is for real. We have just a small window of opportunity and it is closing rather rapidly. There is not…

— Rajendra K. Pachauri

I come from an educational environment that really praises, as do I, the forms of representation that are otherwise lacking in our…

— Cole Sprouse

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

— John Muir

Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change.

— Jeff Goodell

Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not.

— Matthew Fox

I was the kind of poor where I knew right away I had less than everyone around me. Our environment, our physical…

— Viola Davis

Indian car buyers have not really been exposed to customer care in a competitive environment.

— Ratan Tata

My work is strongly rooted in place and memory, in personal, formative experiences that took shape within very different environments.

— David Rockwell

The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a…

— William Faulkner

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

— Gale Norton

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

— Nipsey Hussle

The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.

— Desmond Tutu

A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching…

— H. L. Mencken

A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.

— Vladimir Nabokov

The transformation of environment has become the purpose of human life; life seems real only insofar as it deals with things.

— Rudolf Christoph Eucken