Environment Quotes
3400 quotes by 2126 authors
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My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left,…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the…
— Wendell Berry
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So I hear we get to go to town this weekend. Want to catch a movie or something? --Z P.S. That is, if Jimmy doesn't…
— Ally Carter
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You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash.
— Bill Maher
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A tree is alive, and thus it is always more than you can see. Roots to leaves, yes-those you can, in part, see. But it…
— Elizabeth Moon
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Internal mental experience is not the product of a photographic process. Internal reality is in fact constructed by the brain as it interacts with the…
— Daniel J. Siegel
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I do my best to limit the amount of compromise in my life so I have more time to do what I want. Not hanging…
— Henry Rollins
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The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.
— Daniel Quinn
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Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull…
— Samuel Beckett
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Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit,…
— Mary Gaitskill
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To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never…
— Rachel Carson
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Everybody says women are like water. I think it's because water is the source of life, and it adapts itself to its environment. Like women,…
— Xinran
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I felt excited to go to school, and that scared me. I knew it wasn't the simulating learning environment I was anticipating, or seeing my…
— Stephenie Meyer
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The ancients were afraid that if they went to the end of the earth they would fall off and be consumed by dragons. But once…
— Francis Schaeffer
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
— Rachel Carson
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We are not grand because we are at the top of the food chain or because we can alter our environment - the environment will…
— Aron Ralston
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The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries; that even in environments inhospitable to…
— Jodi Picoult
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The hole in the ozone layer is a kind of skywriting. At first it seemed to spell out our continuing complacency before a witch's brew…
— Carl Sagan
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To stay vigorous, a company needs to provide a stimulating and challenging environment for all these types: the dreamer, the entrepreneur, the professional manager, and…
— Howard Schultz
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