Environment Quotes

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She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate… — Ruth Ozeki
We often marvel at how introverted, geeky, kid 'blossom' into secure and happy adults. We liken it to a metamorphosis. However, maybe it's not the… — Susan Cain
The average mind requires a change of environment before he can change his thought. He has to go somewhere or bring into his presence something… — Christian D. Larson
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty. — John Ruskin
We are an industry that has historically been at the forefront of defining new media environments in ways that benefit consumers and move our entire… — Jim Stengel
Children are the seed for peace or violence in the future, depending on how they are cared for and stimulated. Thus, their family and community… — Unknown Author
You can't talk about the environment, you can't talk about political correctness, affirmative action and all the other innumerable things that freedom is about, unless… — Russell Means
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. — Unknown Author
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... so that never again can… — Wallace Stegner
The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share. — Lady Bird Johnson
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. — John Dewey
Will this massive outcry [about pollution] continue long enough to have effective results? Will federal and state laws be enacted with effective enforcement clauses? Will… — Malcolm Forbes
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is… — John B. S. Haldane
You know, if people are not pacifists, it's not their fault. It's because society puts them in that spot. You've got to change it. You… — Cesar Chavez
Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply to improve the… — Paul Wellstone
We want harmonious development, ... We should work together for more democratic and law-based international relations, and a harmonious environment in which countries respect one… — Li Zhaoxing
All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of… — William James
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of… — Charles Horton Cooley
A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of… — George Santayana
When each of these three elements of vision-concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment-are present, business is transformed from a tool for… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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