Environment Quotes

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Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience… — Susan Sontag
Success is very largely a matter of adjusting one's self to the ever-varying and changing environments of life, in a spirit of harmony and poise. — Napoleon Hill
The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to… — Rene Dubos
Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament… — Roland Barthes
For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again to the otherwise… — Robin Winks
The aim of education should not be to teach how to use human energies to improve the environment, for we are finally beginning to realize… — Maria Montessori
In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in an impoverished and… — George Ryan
Sometime in the last ten years the best brains of the Occident discovered to their amazement that we live in an Environment. This discovery has… — Gary Snyder
Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new and better accessible… — Ludwig von Mises
It is upsetting that many people don't seem to observe what's happening to the environment, what's happening in terms of global warming, the loss of… — Joanne Woodward
Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible. — Gus Hall
The need for a global structure of control in the form of a world environment court is now more urgent than ever before. — Judi Dench
A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States...De-development means bringing our economic system… — John Holdren
Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to halt the destruction… — Al Gore
It's not a choice between our environment and our economy; it's a choice between prosperity and decline. — Barack Obama
The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key… — Stephen Covey
It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation… — Cesar Chavez
The old rules may say we can't protect our environment and promote economic growth at the same time, but in America, we've always used new… — Barack Obama
Climate change and energy use are global problems. News Corp is a global company. Our operations affect the environment all over the world. — Rupert Murdoch
In my view, our approach to global warming exemplifies everything that is wrong with our approach to the environment. We are basing our decisions on… — Michael Crichton

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