Environment Quotes
3400 Environment quotes by 2126 unique authors
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Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually.
— John M. McHugh
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I think achieving a higher fiscal stability is also a very important condition for restoring an environment which is conducive to growth.
— Lucas Papademos
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I have long been an ardent believer in the science of Homeopathy and I feel happy that it has got now a greater hold in…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment.
— L. Ron Hubbard
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It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts…
— Eric Hoffer
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Never have people been more the masters of their environment. Yet never has a people felt more deceived and disappointed. For never has a people…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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The difference between a childhood and a boyhood must be this: our childhood is what we alone have had; our boyhood is what any boy…
— John Updike
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All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life, then there is…
— Thomas Carlyle
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It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.
— Stewart Udall
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Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.
— Stewart Udall
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For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and…
— James Fallows
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I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're…
— Fergie
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You do design because you feel it inside; you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment.
— Massimo Vignelli
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In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Man is messy, but any creature that can create space vehicles can probably cope.
— George Will
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Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many…
— George Will
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Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish…
— Nicholas Negroponte
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No one should voluntarily remain in an environment which prevents his development.
— Orison Swett Marden
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A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves…
— George Santayana
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Mother is the dead heart of the family spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and watches…
— Germaine Greer
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Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier…
— Arthur Miller
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One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing books, of a computer actively sorting out information. The…
— Edward de Bono
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Every mutation through a new combination of genetic factors that provides the organism with a new opportunity for coming to terms with the conditions of…
— Konrad Lorenz
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There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the…
— Bernard Malamud
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The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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