Environment Quotes

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Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong in their seeds. Simply, society never gave them the base to grow on. All it needs… — Muhammad Yunus
When you have half of Caironese in slums, when you don't have clean water, when you don't have a sewer system, when you don't have… — Mohamed ElBaradei
I come from suburban America. It was a very safe environment and it was a good place to come from in that it was a… — Robert Mapplethorpe
I have found that good taste, oddly enough, plays an important role in politics. Why is it like that? The most probable reason is that… — Vaclav Havel
Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make… — B.F. Skinner
A business leader has to keep their organization focused on the mission. That sounds easy, but it can be tremendously challenging in today's competitive and… — Meg Whitman
Everything is material for the seed of happiness, if you look into it with inquisitiveness and curiosity. The future is completely open, and we are… — Pema Chodron
We are hopeful that you will want to visit our planet in the near future. We are in the process of restoring our environment to… — Jeremy Rifkin
Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions of acres by… — Wendell Berry
We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land. — Wendell Berry
I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds. — Henry David Thoreau
A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity. — Alexander Smith
We have wished, we eco-freaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live… — Stewart Brand
Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation. — Theodore Levitt
The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so… — Sergey Brin
The whole business starts with ideas, and we're convinced that ideas come out of an environment of supportive conflict, which is synonymous with appropriate friction. — Michael Eisner
Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists… — C.S. Lewis
Certain environments, certain modes of life, and certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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