Environment Quotes
3400 quotes by 2126 authors
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Our digital experiences are out of body. This biases us toward depersonalised behaviour in an environment where one’s identity can be a liability. But the…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we will have the…
— James L. Farmer, Jr.
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We don’t go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object- we don’t think about the relations that that object embodies-…
— Angela Davis
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I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of curves and straight lines offered…
— Oscar Niemeyer
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No design can exist in isolation. It is always related, sometimes in very complex ways, to an entire constellation of influencing situations and attitudes. What…
— George Nelson
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I create enclosed spaces mainly by means of thick concrete walls. The primary reason is to create a place for the individual, a zone for…
— Tadao Ando
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No matter how advanced society becomes, institutionally or technologically, a house in which nature can be sensed represents for me the ideal environment in which…
— Tadao Ando
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The more artificial a human environment becomes, the more the word ‘natural’ becomes a term of value.
— Wendell Berry
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Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots we become part of the unity of our environments.
— Yayoi Kusama
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It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.
— Pat Metheny
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Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are
— Jonathon Porritt
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Religious leaders could play a significant role in making explicit the connections between current concerns for the environment and age-old teachings about our dependence on…
— Ian Christie
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If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the well-being of the world's people enhanced - not just…
— Gordon Brown
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We all have an interest, and a duty to future generations, to ensure that the benefits of mobility that we now take for granted, do…
— Elliot Morley
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Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at…
— Tony Blair
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Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons…
— Thomas Szasz
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If zoos are like arks, then rare animals are like passengers on a voyage of the damned, never to find a port that will let…
— Peter Singer
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We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we…
— Alan Thicke
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... leadership has to be focused on some very radical ideas that only we as 21st Century people can talk about: making sure people have…
— Danny Glover
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The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate…
— Barbra Streisand
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