Environment Quotes

3400 quotes by 2126 authors

The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves. — Ayn Rand
I prefer to be the noisiest thing in my environment thank you very much. — Rick Riordan
Here is the truth: The Earth is round; Saddam Hussein did not attack us on 9/11; Elvis is dead; Obama was born in the United… — Al Gore
My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things… — Waris Dirie
Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs in the city… — Richard Yates
What we do flows from who we are. — Charles Colson
People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it. — Ha-Joon Chang
Equality of opportunity is not enough. Unless we create an environment where everyone is guaranteed some minimum capabilities through some guarantee of minimum income, education,… — Ha-Joon Chang
Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. — Samuel Butler
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children — Chief Seattle
Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast. — Steve Pavlina
I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner than them. — Neil Young
The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive. "I don't understand this person. So they're crazy." That's bullshit. These people are not crazy.… — Dave Chappelle
...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations.… — Theodore Roosevelt
We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts from the full-life… — Philip K. Dick
â€ŽUsing his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population. Instead of controlling… — David Attenborough
Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our… — E. O. Wilson
And, I think: I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence. Of the… — Sylvia Plath
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn! — Logan Pearsall Smith

Who Wrote These Environment Quotes

2,126 authors contributed a total of 3,400 Environment Quotes, led by these top contributors: