Environment Quotes

3400 Environment quotes by 2126 unique authors

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age. — Viola Davis
School is such an encouraging and safe environment. It's filled with idealism and just really working on your craft. When you enter the business world… — Troy Garity
Too many countries that do not play by the free trade rules of the World Trade Organization - including, notably mercantilist China and monopolist Saudi… — Frank Gaffney
Clean energy is good for the environment, good for national security, and good for thousands of Americans who desire a rewarding career. — John Garamendi
If you look at it ecologically, deforestation is high on the list of things which bring devastation. You cut down trees to build homes, for… — Clive Anderson
So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection. — Marc Andreessen
I think there's a green side to John Kerry, if you like, that he's an environmental activist. His record on the environment is as best… — Douglas Brinkley
I grew up in New York in an English-speaking environment. — Erik Estrada
The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment. — Mohamed ElBaradei
We all, parents, educators, community leaders, and every... citizen, need to come together to find new ways to engage children with the natural environment. — Laura Bush
The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings. — Leslie Stephen
A natural environment is far more complex than any playing field. — Richard Louv
Neuroligacally, human beings haven't caught up with today's overstimulating environment. Getting kids out in nature can make a difference. — Michael Gurian
Each of us-adult or child-must earn nature's gift by knowing nature directly, however difficult it may be to glean that knowledge in an urban environment. — Richard Louv
There are idle spots on every farm, and every highway is bordered by an idle strip as long as it is; keep cow, plow, and… — Aldo Leopold
Nature-the sublime, the harsh, and the beautiful-offers something that the street or gated community or computer game cannot. Nature presents the young with something so… — Richard Louv
… what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling… — Edsger Dijkstra
There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in with… — Gary Taubes
Technology is that which separates us from our environment. — Marshall McLuhan
To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of a system geared… — Anthony Giddens
I don't think America can just drill itself out of its current energy situation. We don't need to destroy the environment to meet our energy… — Edward Kennedy
The human organism is thus still developing biologically while already standing in a relationship to its environmont. In other words, the process of becoming man… — Peter L. Berger
For the fact is that organisms are creative and make their environments in such a way as to become virtually part of it themselves. But… — Peter Dickens
Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his attempts… — Rene Dubos
... social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. (...) ... social circumstances acting in childhood… — Michael Marmot

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