Environment Quote by Forest Whitaker

I lived a few miles outside of a tiny town in central Oklahoma. I would often run amok though the fields of wheat, the…

— Chelsea Manning

My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my…

— Forest Whitaker

Within the memory of many of my townsmen the road near which my house stands resounded with the laugh and gossip of inhabitants, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Dusty small towns and big families. Cooling my memory like a summer rain. Cold well water and dewberry pie. Brazos River running through my…

— Ruthie Foster

I'd come to the country to do my Thoreau bit, so I needed an office that looked out onto the woods for inspiration. I…

— David Mixner

I was living in Monterey, a place where the classic photographers - the Westons, Wynn Bullock and Ansel Adams - came for a privileged…

— Lewis Baltz

I grew up in this little city called Brampton. It's pretty suburban - there's not a lot going on. In my neighbourhood, specifically, there…

— Alessia Cara

The Compton I knew was from my mother, and it was beautiful. It was this close-knit community, and people cared about one another, and…

— Aja Brown

I grew up in an area that was the typical city that was a racially divided and economically segregated place. And it had a…

— Ed Kowalczyk

In any case, suffice it to say I enjoyed hearing about faraway places. I had stocked up a whole store of these places, like…

— Haruki Murakami

My mother and father were middle-class, and my grandmother lived in the ghetto, so I used to spend my summers at her house.

— Sisqo

I grew up playing with kids from Hurt Village, playing with kids from other housing projects, Lamar Terrace, because my grandmother lived in that…

— Katori Hall