Environment Quotes
3400 quotes by 2126 authors
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Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our major concern is…
— Rachel Carson
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In the last few decades entire new categories of waste have come to plague and menace the American scene. Pollution is growing at a rapid…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one's environment.
— Steve Jobs
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I became a writer in spite of my environments.
— Robert E. Howard
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But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself…
— Robert E. Howard
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It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.
— Robert E. Howard
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Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.
— Luis Barragan
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Quality of life is the sum total of the fairness of our tax structure; the caliber of our homes; the cleanliness of our air and…
— Tom McCall
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If the salmon and steelhead are running, then as far as I am concerned, God knows that all is well in His worldthe health of…
— Tom McCall
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I don't agree with you in saying that in all human minds there is poetry. Man as he came from the hand of his Maker…
— John Muir
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like our…
— John Muir
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Heredity is nothing but stored environment.
— Luther Burbank
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We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago.…
— Gerald R. Ford
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There are some, I know, who see beautification as a frill, as an extra, or as something that is luxurious enough to postpone. Well, they…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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I've been told that certain species of fish will grow according to the size of their environment. Put them in a tiny aquarium, and they…
— John C. Maxwell
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Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological…
— Rachel Carson
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The farmer and the farm, like "the environment," are looked upon, for example, as means to offset trade deficits. The farm is a place where…
— Wes Jackson
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One of the most important things for a country, particularly when it's seeking to attract long-term capital in big risky projects that are going to…
— Malcolm Turnbull
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With more money brings more fear and when you're trying to be creative in a fear-based environment it's dangerous. Then decisions are made out of…
— Lake Bell
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My father was a naturalist and a very spiritual person, who had a great desire to pass on his knowledge to others, so that they…
— Carlos Gracie, Jr.
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