It is vital that we avoid any hint of moral superiority in our dealings with one another in the environmental movement; if it developed into factionalism it would destroy us, as factionalism has destroyed so many other progressive movements in America.
- Edward Abbey
There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him. If I switch it on my eyes adapt to it and I can see only the small pool of light it makes in front of me; I am isolated. Leaving the flashlight in my pocket where it belongs, I remain a part of the environment I walk through and my vision though limited has no sharp or definite boundary.
- Edward Abbey
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
- Ansel Adams
Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates.
- Christopher Alexander
The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt
- Jesse Jackson
On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.
- Clive Anderson
Research gathered over recent years has highlighted the countless benefits to people, wildlife and the environment that come from planting trees and creating new woodland habitat. It's obvious trees are good things.
- Clive Anderson
All the writers and producers around us that gave us the environment where we could play. They were able to provide us with a place where we could take chances to play with things, go against the grain and do things that people don't always do.
- Matthew Ashford
Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population. Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it's time we controlled the population to allow the survival of the environment.
- David Attenborough
You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.
- David Attenborough
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.
- David Attenborough
What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two.
- Bruce Babbitt
Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much more on the conditions of his existence and the environment in which he lives than on his own will.
- Mikhail Bakunin
Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.
- Melissa Bean
Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant.
- Paul Berg
Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating.
- Wendell Berry
Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.
- Hans Blix
The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
- Bono
We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.
- Sonny Bono
I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.
- Barbara Boxer
Everything I do is the environment.
- Arthur Boyd
We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.
- Arthur Boyd
The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment.
- Paul D Boyer
Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.
- Bill Bradley
Women - why aren't you running the world yet? Frankly I'm disappointed in you. Men are still far too dominant for their own good, and consequently we've made a testosterone-sodden pig's ear of just about everything: politics, the economy, religion, the environment... you name it, it's in a gigantic man-wrought mess.
- Charlie Brooker
We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.
- Pierce Brosnan
We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart.
- David R Brower
It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live.
- Dalai Lama
I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
- Pat Buckley
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
- Dan Quayle
The environment is everything that isn't me.
- Albert Einstein
I do not teach anyone I only provide the environment in which they can learn
- Albert Einstein
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
- Mark Caine
You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.
- Tony Robbins
The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops.
- Fritjof Capra
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
- William James
I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on measuring success by human competitiveness for wealth, possessions, influence, and fame, but adhering to God's standards of truth, justice, humility, service, compassion, forgiveness, and love.
- Jimmy Carter
I remember my Republican Party as fiscally conservative, as caring about the environment.
- Lincoln Chafee
On the issues that I care deeply about - the environment, Roe vs. Wade, the war in Iraq, with no weapons of mass destruction, the tax cuts that are now leading to deficits, I've got some deep issues with the president.
- Lincoln Chafee
I think we should all be more concerned about the environment and the effects of global warming. It will be pointless to talk about all the issues that divide us when it's 300 degrees outside.
- Don Cheadle
I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.
- Deepak Chopra
Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.
- Jim Clyburn
The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
- William Sloane Coffin Jr
Apparently, he'd killed so many family members that he must have significantly affected the Lore's population. Doing my part for the environment.
- Kresley Cole
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
- Barry Commoner
The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.
- Barry Commoner
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
- Barry Commoner
In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.
- Barry Commoner
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
- Barry Commoner
Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.
- Barry Commoner
My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
- Barry Commoner
I was raised in the environment where it really wasn't about sittin' around dreaming all the time, it was about practicing and workin' really hard and if a dream ever came to you, you'd be prepared for that opportunity.
- Harry Connick Jr
To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.
- Robert Conquest
It's a paradox to be an actress, living in the city, taking planes all the time, trying to find the right balance in this life, which is not so eco-friendly, and still try to respect the environment.
- Marion Cotillard
Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.
- Doug Coupland
Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.
- Peter Coyote
When I was a Republican governor, he was obviously a Democratic president, but on issue after issue after issue, President Obama was very helpful to us in education, in the environment, with the handling of the BP oil spill.
- Charlie Crist
The rules themselves are clear enough, and within everyone's reach. But many forces, both within ourselves and in the environment, stand in the way. It is a little like trying to lose weight: everyone knows what it takes, everyone wants to do it, yet it is next to impossible for so many.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The manufacturing of most goods harms the environment in one way or another. The culprit is not the factory, but it is we who buy what it produces. Therefore we should think carefully about items we purchase.
- Amy Dacyczyn
That area environmentally is a waste. You can't do anything. I don't care if the Sierra Club goes out there. It is fully polluted! You're not only going to work to clean up the environment, but also you will put people to work.
- Richard M Daley
The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.
- Herman E Daly
The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
- Ted Danson
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
- Richard Dawkins
Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics.
- Mark Dayton
I like John Kerry. I think he's intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he's deeply committed on issues like the environment. I think he's an internationalist, which I am.
- Howard Dean
I've been vegan for 15 years, and it turns out it makes a very big impact on the environment to eat fewer animal products, which cause more greenhouse gases than all of transportation combined.
- Emily Deschanel
My mom breastfed me for more than a year, and I can't imagine doing it any other way. It's cheap and much better for the environment, and you don't have to lug all that stuff around.
- Emily Deschanel
Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.
- Jared Diamond
No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.
- Jared Diamond
The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.
- Norm Dicks
The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas
I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible.
- Atom Egoyan
An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
- E F Schumacher
Where is the stupid bus? And why did my dad have to be so big on mass transit, anyhow? Why couldn't I I own a car, like practically every other senior? But no, i had to 'share the ride' to save the environment. When I'm abducted by the menacing guy under the tree, Dad will probably insist my face only appear on recycled milk cartons....
- Beth Fantaskey
If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.
- Jeffrey Eugenides
...new theories and new movements do not develop in a vacuum, they arise to spearhead the necessary social solutions to new problems resulting from contradictions in the environment.
- Shulamith Firestone
Locally produced foods - defined as those harvested within a 100-mile radius of one's home - have a lesser impact on the environment because of the decreased need for transportation from source to consumer.
- Tyler Florence
We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.
- Steve Forbes
It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
- E O Wilson
Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the "environmentalist" view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
- E O Wilson
The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
- E O Wilson
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
- E O Wilson
Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon which all beings depend for life. In my view, the animal rights movement is, at its core, a movement about ending violence to all sentient beings. It is a movement that seeks fundamental justice for all. It is an emerging peace movement that does not stop at the arbitrary line that separates humans from nonhumans.
- Gary L Francione
If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It's a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which all sentient beings depend.
- Gary L Francione
I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.
- Ace Frehley
I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.
- David Frum
However, I have a low opinion of people with narrow political horizons. Someone who talks about the environment and knows nothing about economics can make as many mistakes as someone who does the opposite.
- Sigmar Gabriel
In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.
- Barack Obama
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment, it's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
- Al Gore
Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no effective worldwide response. Until we start sharply reducing global-warming pollution, I will feel that I have failed.
- Al Gore
As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy.
- Al Gore
If only non-hypocrites are going to fight for the environment then it will be an army of none. (60)
- David Gessner
I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
- Carlos Ghosn
I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal.
- James J Gibson
if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition
- Malcolm Gladwell
If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.
- Danny Glover
A lot of fun stuff happens when you go out on a bike compared to when you're in a car. You're more in the environment. It's enjoyable. Even when It's raining It's still fun.
- Stone Gossard
I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation.
- Jennifer M Granholm
The whole purpose was to say that it doesn't have to be a zero sum. It's not the environment or jobs. You can have both. You can help the auto industry achieve that if you have investment in plants.
- Jennifer M Granholm
With respect to the environment in our state and our state's future - in addition to water which is very important here - I think it is crucial for him to make a sincere commitment to energy efficiency, fuel efficiency, by helping us to produce those cars of the future.
- Jennifer M Granholm
It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself.
- Bruce Greenwood
It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this is true. But government creates the environment in which businesses can excel and expand.
- Christine Gregoire
When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only a few pages, but ended up being nearly 50.
- Woody Harrelson
I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved.
- Keith Henson
Your friends, and your associates, and the people around you, and the environment that you live in, and the speakers around you - the speakers around you - and the communicators around you, are the poetry makers.
If your mother tells you stories, she is a poetry maker.
If your father says stories, he is a poetry maker.
If your grandma tells you stories, she is a poetry maker.
And that's who forms our poetics.
- Juan Felipe Herrera
I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.
- Emile Hirsch
My role is not to choose between safeguarding the economy and protecting the environment - it's about doing both.
- Geoff Hoon
Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan.
- Jane D Hull
We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets.
- Jane D Hull
The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.
- Bill Hybels
We like the size of the company today given the environment and have no plans to split it up and make it smaller.
- Robert Iger
I'm trying to get across the message that don't be afraid of animals, they're just put on this earth to help the environment and everything like that.
- Bindi Irwin
Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.
- Arne Jacobsen
If you can, trap me. I'll make a good patient because I was brought up in the environment of authority; it's going to be hard to pull me in though- I've been running all my life, playing truant. If you can capture me I'll buckle down. I'll loathe you in secret and put on a good face.
- Derek Jarman
This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment.
- Jim Jeffords
The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing that all of us share. it is not only a mirror of ourselves, but a focusing lens on what we can become..
- Claudia Johnson
But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness.
- Donald Judd
I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment.
- Raul Julia
A fuel pump is a fountain drink machine for cars. And people who want to save the environment and get drunk and run to work.
- Jarod Kintz
I want to save the environment. I like being green as much as the next Smurf
- Jarod Kintz
I'd drive a thousand miles just to learn how to conserve gas and help save the environment. But that's just who I am. I'm a thoughtful guy.
- Jarod Kintz
The moon is an orbital albino, and it gets tons of sunlight, so I propose Operation Sunscreen, where astronauts coat the surface of the moon with a protective layer of sunscreen. If you care about albinos and the environment, you'll see this is a good idea. And hey, it's a better use of taxpayer funds than bailing out private banks.
- Jarod Kintz
If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.
- John Kasich
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
- Beverly Sills
The organization and the environment are in concert.
- Kevin Kelly
When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.
- Kevin Kelly
The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.
- Kevin Kelly
Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.
- Kevin Kelly
The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part.
- Kevin Kelly
An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.
- Kevin Kelly
We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.
- Anthony Kiedis
I mean, I really don't want the federal government to be determining whether or not a person who feels certain ways about the environment or about animals or about certain religious issues should be considered an extremist. That to me is a type of thought control, mind control, which is very dangerous.
- Peter King
Rise early and seize each day, learn much and use this knowledge well, spend time with those you love, never abuse your pets, use logic to fight the irrational (for it is everywhere), defend the environment and its wildlife as a knight would protect King Arthur, meld mind and heart for greatest creativity, follow your dreams, and become all that you can be.
- Charles Kohlhase
More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change in values taking place among consumers, who become more concerned about quality of life, food, health and the environment.
- David Korten
Seriously, our nation is never going to be on the same page on issues like gun control, welfare, the economy, the environment, etc. I doubt we'll ever come to terms on tastes great or less filling and hybrids versus Hummers, and there will always be Yankees fans and Red Sox fans, and never the 'twain shall meet. Fortunately, all it takes for us to be of one mind is some buttercream frosting.
- Jen Lancaster
Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
- Walter Lang
The atmosphere defines the environment of sound.
- Bill Laswell
The Environmental Protection Agency is conducting a seven-hundred-thousand-dollar study to see if Alaskan trees are polluting Oregon forests. You can tell Republicans are in power. Pollution? It's those damn trees.
- Jay Leno
The environmental benefits of hydrogen are also outstanding. When used as an energy source, hydrogen produces no emissions besides water. Zero polluting emissions, an amazing advance over the current sources of energy that we use.
- Dan Lipinski
There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.
- Ken Livingstone
When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things.
- Bjorn Lomborg
Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.
- James Lovelock
The fundamental problem for Republicans when it comes to the environment is that whatever you say is viewed through the prism of suspicion.
- Frank Luntz
I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.
- Wangari Maathai
We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.
- Wangari Maathai
In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
- Wangari Maathai
We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
- Wangari Maathai
I think the human body is beautiful, and I don't really have a huge problem in dealing with it, but it's the context, the environment and what I feel about it that that makes the difference for me.
- Andie Macdowell
Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species.
- Melvin Maddocks
We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands.
- Nong Duc Manh
Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here.
- Chris Martin
On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's history; and as there had been a beginning of life upon it, so, under the influence of other conditions, there would be an end: man, no more significant than other forms of life, had come not as the climax of creation but as a physical reaction to the environment.
- W Somerset Maugham
The leader's Attitude is like a thermostat for the place she works. If her attitude is good, the atmosphere is pleasant, and the environment is easy to work in. But if her attitude is bad, the temperature is insufferable.
- John C Maxwell
What I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has so much to do with your character, and when I'm home, my character really changes quite a bit.
- John Mayer
But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.
- Thom Mayne
Well, perhaps the greatest achievement, and we didn't know it at the time, was we held an Earth Day in 1970, and out of that Earth Day a lot of students got involved in saving the environment, or trying to.
- Pete Mccloskey
The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment.
- Pete Mccloskey
Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually.
- John M Mchugh
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
- Margaret Mead
My father influenced by his very life, his very example and the environment that I was brought up in. But, he did not encourage or discourage any of us. He let us make up our own minds.
- Juliet Mills
True happiness is always available to us, but first we have to create the environment for it to flourish.
- Sakyong Mipham
There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.
- Brian Molko
I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.
- Brian Mulroney
We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen.
- Brian Mulroney
We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year.
- Brian Mulroney
When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands.
- Brian Mulroney
I would go to them and I would explain this is the price of going forward. We're going to move ahead in all these other areas. We're moving ahead in tax reform and GST, we are moving ahead on trade, but this will not be done at the cost of the environment.
- Brian Mulroney
Research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution.
- Dee Dee Myers
But research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution.
- Dee Dee Myers
It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president.
- Kathy Najimy
Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out.
- Martina Navratilova
If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves.
- Gaylord Nelson
Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.
- Gaylord Nelson
I'm involved with Recording Artists and Actors Against Drunk Driving. I'm also involved with most children's causes, because children can't help the environment they're in.
- Judd Nelson
God's command to have dominion over every living thing is a call to service, a test of responsibility, a rule of love, a cooperation with nature, whereas Satan's use of force for the sake of getting gain renders the earth uninhabitable. Brigham Young's views on the environment direct attention to man's responsibility to beautify the earth, to eradicate the influences of harmful substances, and to use restraint, that the earth may return to its paradisiacal glory.
- Hugh Nibley
A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?
- Donald Norman
Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
- Gale Norton
I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.
- Gale Norton
I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.
- Gale Norton
The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.
- P J Orourke
I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner than them.
- Neil Young
That professionalism comes from what I've watched people do on the set. I'm just trying to be as respectful to the environment, as they have been. I think I still act like a kid. I just try to be as professional as I can.
- Haley Joel Osment
It's more than just high quality food for the family table; it's growing the food in a way that does not harm the environment. That gives me emotional well-being that is important to me.
- Robert Patterson
I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.
- Alexandra Paul
Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.
- Roger Tory Peterson
Organic Oreos are not a health food. When Coca-Cola begins selling organic Coke, as it surely will, the company will have struck a blow for the environment perhaps, but not for our health. Most consumers automatically assume that the word "organic" is synomymous with health, but it makes no difference to your insulin metabolism if the high-fructose corn syrup in your soda is organic.
- Michael Pollan
Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.
- Natalie Portman
Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.
- Manuel Puig
I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.
- Suzi Quatro
We are not grand because we are at the top of the food chain or because we can alter our environment - the environment will outlast us with its unfathomable forces and unyielding powers. But rather than be bound and defeated by our insignificance, we are bold because we exercise our will anyway, despite the ephemeral and delicate presence we have in this desert, on this planet, in this universe.
- Aron Ralston
The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.
- Ayn Rand
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
- Robert Redford
It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.
- Godfrey Reggio
I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well get the upside for it and dedicate that upside to improving the environment in so many different ways.
- Ed Rendell
And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over.
- Ed Rendell
In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.
- Jeremy Rifkin
Once you develop your own style, you know when you're able to give your best. Feeling at home is part of it, and I don't think that's an L.A. thing. It's a matter of the environment and of what affects you.
- Herb Ritts
The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.
- Anita Roddick
You know, the environment is fragmenting, and the environment is, in many places, absolutely hideous!
- Richard Rogers
The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.
- Richard Rogers
The environment is better and better for Democrats.
- Stuart Rothenberg
- Edward Abbey
There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him. If I switch it on my eyes adapt to it and I can see only the small pool of light it makes in front of me; I am isolated. Leaving the flashlight in my pocket where it belongs, I remain a part of the environment I walk through and my vision though limited has no sharp or definite boundary.
- Edward Abbey
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
- Ansel Adams
Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates.
- Christopher Alexander
The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt
- Jesse Jackson
On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.
- Clive Anderson
Research gathered over recent years has highlighted the countless benefits to people, wildlife and the environment that come from planting trees and creating new woodland habitat. It's obvious trees are good things.
- Clive Anderson
All the writers and producers around us that gave us the environment where we could play. They were able to provide us with a place where we could take chances to play with things, go against the grain and do things that people don't always do.
- Matthew Ashford
Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population. Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it's time we controlled the population to allow the survival of the environment.
- David Attenborough
You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.
- David Attenborough
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.
- David Attenborough
What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two.
- Bruce Babbitt
Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much more on the conditions of his existence and the environment in which he lives than on his own will.
- Mikhail Bakunin
Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.
- Melissa Bean
Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant.
- Paul Berg
Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating.
- Wendell Berry
Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.
- Hans Blix
The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
- Bono
We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.
- Sonny Bono
I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.
- Barbara Boxer
Everything I do is the environment.
- Arthur Boyd
We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.
- Arthur Boyd
The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment.
- Paul D Boyer
Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.
- Bill Bradley
Women - why aren't you running the world yet? Frankly I'm disappointed in you. Men are still far too dominant for their own good, and consequently we've made a testosterone-sodden pig's ear of just about everything: politics, the economy, religion, the environment... you name it, it's in a gigantic man-wrought mess.
- Charlie Brooker
We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.
- Pierce Brosnan
We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart.
- David R Brower
It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live.
- Dalai Lama
I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
- Pat Buckley
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
- Dan Quayle
The environment is everything that isn't me.
- Albert Einstein
I do not teach anyone I only provide the environment in which they can learn
- Albert Einstein
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
- Mark Caine
You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.
- Tony Robbins
The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops.
- Fritjof Capra
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
- William James
I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on measuring success by human competitiveness for wealth, possessions, influence, and fame, but adhering to God's standards of truth, justice, humility, service, compassion, forgiveness, and love.
- Jimmy Carter
I remember my Republican Party as fiscally conservative, as caring about the environment.
- Lincoln Chafee
On the issues that I care deeply about - the environment, Roe vs. Wade, the war in Iraq, with no weapons of mass destruction, the tax cuts that are now leading to deficits, I've got some deep issues with the president.
- Lincoln Chafee
I think we should all be more concerned about the environment and the effects of global warming. It will be pointless to talk about all the issues that divide us when it's 300 degrees outside.
- Don Cheadle
I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.
- Deepak Chopra
Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.
- Jim Clyburn
The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
- William Sloane Coffin Jr
Apparently, he'd killed so many family members that he must have significantly affected the Lore's population. Doing my part for the environment.
- Kresley Cole
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
- Barry Commoner
The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.
- Barry Commoner
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
- Barry Commoner
In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.
- Barry Commoner
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
- Barry Commoner
Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.
- Barry Commoner
My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
- Barry Commoner
I was raised in the environment where it really wasn't about sittin' around dreaming all the time, it was about practicing and workin' really hard and if a dream ever came to you, you'd be prepared for that opportunity.
- Harry Connick Jr
To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.
- Robert Conquest
It's a paradox to be an actress, living in the city, taking planes all the time, trying to find the right balance in this life, which is not so eco-friendly, and still try to respect the environment.
- Marion Cotillard
Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.
- Doug Coupland
Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.
- Peter Coyote
When I was a Republican governor, he was obviously a Democratic president, but on issue after issue after issue, President Obama was very helpful to us in education, in the environment, with the handling of the BP oil spill.
- Charlie Crist
The rules themselves are clear enough, and within everyone's reach. But many forces, both within ourselves and in the environment, stand in the way. It is a little like trying to lose weight: everyone knows what it takes, everyone wants to do it, yet it is next to impossible for so many.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The manufacturing of most goods harms the environment in one way or another. The culprit is not the factory, but it is we who buy what it produces. Therefore we should think carefully about items we purchase.
- Amy Dacyczyn
That area environmentally is a waste. You can't do anything. I don't care if the Sierra Club goes out there. It is fully polluted! You're not only going to work to clean up the environment, but also you will put people to work.
- Richard M Daley
The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.
- Herman E Daly
The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
- Ted Danson
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
- Richard Dawkins
Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics.
- Mark Dayton
I like John Kerry. I think he's intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he's deeply committed on issues like the environment. I think he's an internationalist, which I am.
- Howard Dean
I've been vegan for 15 years, and it turns out it makes a very big impact on the environment to eat fewer animal products, which cause more greenhouse gases than all of transportation combined.
- Emily Deschanel
My mom breastfed me for more than a year, and I can't imagine doing it any other way. It's cheap and much better for the environment, and you don't have to lug all that stuff around.
- Emily Deschanel
Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.
- Jared Diamond
No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.
- Jared Diamond
The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.
- Norm Dicks
The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas
I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible.
- Atom Egoyan
An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
- E F Schumacher
Where is the stupid bus? And why did my dad have to be so big on mass transit, anyhow? Why couldn't I I own a car, like practically every other senior? But no, i had to 'share the ride' to save the environment. When I'm abducted by the menacing guy under the tree, Dad will probably insist my face only appear on recycled milk cartons....
- Beth Fantaskey
If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.
- Jeffrey Eugenides
...new theories and new movements do not develop in a vacuum, they arise to spearhead the necessary social solutions to new problems resulting from contradictions in the environment.
- Shulamith Firestone
Locally produced foods - defined as those harvested within a 100-mile radius of one's home - have a lesser impact on the environment because of the decreased need for transportation from source to consumer.
- Tyler Florence
We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.
- Steve Forbes
It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
- E O Wilson
Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the "environmentalist" view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
- E O Wilson
The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
- E O Wilson
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
- E O Wilson
Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon which all beings depend for life. In my view, the animal rights movement is, at its core, a movement about ending violence to all sentient beings. It is a movement that seeks fundamental justice for all. It is an emerging peace movement that does not stop at the arbitrary line that separates humans from nonhumans.
- Gary L Francione
If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It's a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which all sentient beings depend.
- Gary L Francione
I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.
- Ace Frehley
I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.
- David Frum
However, I have a low opinion of people with narrow political horizons. Someone who talks about the environment and knows nothing about economics can make as many mistakes as someone who does the opposite.
- Sigmar Gabriel
In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.
- Barack Obama
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment, it's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
- Al Gore
Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no effective worldwide response. Until we start sharply reducing global-warming pollution, I will feel that I have failed.
- Al Gore
As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy.
- Al Gore
If only non-hypocrites are going to fight for the environment then it will be an army of none. (60)
- David Gessner
I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
- Carlos Ghosn
I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal.
- James J Gibson
if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition
- Malcolm Gladwell
If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.
- Danny Glover
A lot of fun stuff happens when you go out on a bike compared to when you're in a car. You're more in the environment. It's enjoyable. Even when It's raining It's still fun.
- Stone Gossard
I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation.
- Jennifer M Granholm
The whole purpose was to say that it doesn't have to be a zero sum. It's not the environment or jobs. You can have both. You can help the auto industry achieve that if you have investment in plants.
- Jennifer M Granholm
With respect to the environment in our state and our state's future - in addition to water which is very important here - I think it is crucial for him to make a sincere commitment to energy efficiency, fuel efficiency, by helping us to produce those cars of the future.
- Jennifer M Granholm
It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself.
- Bruce Greenwood
It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this is true. But government creates the environment in which businesses can excel and expand.
- Christine Gregoire
When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only a few pages, but ended up being nearly 50.
- Woody Harrelson
I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved.
- Keith Henson
Your friends, and your associates, and the people around you, and the environment that you live in, and the speakers around you - the speakers around you - and the communicators around you, are the poetry makers.
If your mother tells you stories, she is a poetry maker.
If your father says stories, he is a poetry maker.
If your grandma tells you stories, she is a poetry maker.
And that's who forms our poetics.
- Juan Felipe Herrera
I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.
- Emile Hirsch
My role is not to choose between safeguarding the economy and protecting the environment - it's about doing both.
- Geoff Hoon
Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan.
- Jane D Hull
We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets.
- Jane D Hull
The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.
- Bill Hybels
We like the size of the company today given the environment and have no plans to split it up and make it smaller.
- Robert Iger
I'm trying to get across the message that don't be afraid of animals, they're just put on this earth to help the environment and everything like that.
- Bindi Irwin
Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.
- Arne Jacobsen
If you can, trap me. I'll make a good patient because I was brought up in the environment of authority; it's going to be hard to pull me in though- I've been running all my life, playing truant. If you can capture me I'll buckle down. I'll loathe you in secret and put on a good face.
- Derek Jarman
This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment.
- Jim Jeffords
The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing that all of us share. it is not only a mirror of ourselves, but a focusing lens on what we can become..
- Claudia Johnson
But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness.
- Donald Judd
I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment.
- Raul Julia
A fuel pump is a fountain drink machine for cars. And people who want to save the environment and get drunk and run to work.
- Jarod Kintz
I want to save the environment. I like being green as much as the next Smurf
- Jarod Kintz
I'd drive a thousand miles just to learn how to conserve gas and help save the environment. But that's just who I am. I'm a thoughtful guy.
- Jarod Kintz
The moon is an orbital albino, and it gets tons of sunlight, so I propose Operation Sunscreen, where astronauts coat the surface of the moon with a protective layer of sunscreen. If you care about albinos and the environment, you'll see this is a good idea. And hey, it's a better use of taxpayer funds than bailing out private banks.
- Jarod Kintz
If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.
- John Kasich
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
- Beverly Sills
The organization and the environment are in concert.
- Kevin Kelly
When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.
- Kevin Kelly
The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.
- Kevin Kelly
Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.
- Kevin Kelly
The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part.
- Kevin Kelly
An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.
- Kevin Kelly
We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.
- Anthony Kiedis
I mean, I really don't want the federal government to be determining whether or not a person who feels certain ways about the environment or about animals or about certain religious issues should be considered an extremist. That to me is a type of thought control, mind control, which is very dangerous.
- Peter King
Rise early and seize each day, learn much and use this knowledge well, spend time with those you love, never abuse your pets, use logic to fight the irrational (for it is everywhere), defend the environment and its wildlife as a knight would protect King Arthur, meld mind and heart for greatest creativity, follow your dreams, and become all that you can be.
- Charles Kohlhase
More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change in values taking place among consumers, who become more concerned about quality of life, food, health and the environment.
- David Korten
Seriously, our nation is never going to be on the same page on issues like gun control, welfare, the economy, the environment, etc. I doubt we'll ever come to terms on tastes great or less filling and hybrids versus Hummers, and there will always be Yankees fans and Red Sox fans, and never the 'twain shall meet. Fortunately, all it takes for us to be of one mind is some buttercream frosting.
- Jen Lancaster
Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
- Walter Lang
The atmosphere defines the environment of sound.
- Bill Laswell
The Environmental Protection Agency is conducting a seven-hundred-thousand-dollar study to see if Alaskan trees are polluting Oregon forests. You can tell Republicans are in power. Pollution? It's those damn trees.
- Jay Leno
The environmental benefits of hydrogen are also outstanding. When used as an energy source, hydrogen produces no emissions besides water. Zero polluting emissions, an amazing advance over the current sources of energy that we use.
- Dan Lipinski
There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.
- Ken Livingstone
When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things.
- Bjorn Lomborg
Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.
- James Lovelock
The fundamental problem for Republicans when it comes to the environment is that whatever you say is viewed through the prism of suspicion.
- Frank Luntz
I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.
- Wangari Maathai
We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.
- Wangari Maathai
In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
- Wangari Maathai
We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
- Wangari Maathai
I think the human body is beautiful, and I don't really have a huge problem in dealing with it, but it's the context, the environment and what I feel about it that that makes the difference for me.
- Andie Macdowell
Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species.
- Melvin Maddocks
We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands.
- Nong Duc Manh
Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here.
- Chris Martin
On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's history; and as there had been a beginning of life upon it, so, under the influence of other conditions, there would be an end: man, no more significant than other forms of life, had come not as the climax of creation but as a physical reaction to the environment.
- W Somerset Maugham
The leader's Attitude is like a thermostat for the place she works. If her attitude is good, the atmosphere is pleasant, and the environment is easy to work in. But if her attitude is bad, the temperature is insufferable.
- John C Maxwell
What I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has so much to do with your character, and when I'm home, my character really changes quite a bit.
- John Mayer
But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.
- Thom Mayne
Well, perhaps the greatest achievement, and we didn't know it at the time, was we held an Earth Day in 1970, and out of that Earth Day a lot of students got involved in saving the environment, or trying to.
- Pete Mccloskey
The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment.
- Pete Mccloskey
Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually.
- John M Mchugh
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
- Margaret Mead
My father influenced by his very life, his very example and the environment that I was brought up in. But, he did not encourage or discourage any of us. He let us make up our own minds.
- Juliet Mills
True happiness is always available to us, but first we have to create the environment for it to flourish.
- Sakyong Mipham
There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.
- Brian Molko
I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.
- Brian Mulroney
We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen.
- Brian Mulroney
We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year.
- Brian Mulroney
When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands.
- Brian Mulroney
I would go to them and I would explain this is the price of going forward. We're going to move ahead in all these other areas. We're moving ahead in tax reform and GST, we are moving ahead on trade, but this will not be done at the cost of the environment.
- Brian Mulroney
Research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution.
- Dee Dee Myers
But research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution.
- Dee Dee Myers
It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president.
- Kathy Najimy
Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out.
- Martina Navratilova
If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves.
- Gaylord Nelson
Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.
- Gaylord Nelson
I'm involved with Recording Artists and Actors Against Drunk Driving. I'm also involved with most children's causes, because children can't help the environment they're in.
- Judd Nelson
God's command to have dominion over every living thing is a call to service, a test of responsibility, a rule of love, a cooperation with nature, whereas Satan's use of force for the sake of getting gain renders the earth uninhabitable. Brigham Young's views on the environment direct attention to man's responsibility to beautify the earth, to eradicate the influences of harmful substances, and to use restraint, that the earth may return to its paradisiacal glory.
- Hugh Nibley
A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?
- Donald Norman
Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
- Gale Norton
I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.
- Gale Norton
I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.
- Gale Norton
The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.
- P J Orourke
I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner than them.
- Neil Young
That professionalism comes from what I've watched people do on the set. I'm just trying to be as respectful to the environment, as they have been. I think I still act like a kid. I just try to be as professional as I can.
- Haley Joel Osment
It's more than just high quality food for the family table; it's growing the food in a way that does not harm the environment. That gives me emotional well-being that is important to me.
- Robert Patterson
I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.
- Alexandra Paul
Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.
- Roger Tory Peterson
Organic Oreos are not a health food. When Coca-Cola begins selling organic Coke, as it surely will, the company will have struck a blow for the environment perhaps, but not for our health. Most consumers automatically assume that the word "organic" is synomymous with health, but it makes no difference to your insulin metabolism if the high-fructose corn syrup in your soda is organic.
- Michael Pollan
Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.
- Natalie Portman
Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.
- Manuel Puig
I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.
- Suzi Quatro
We are not grand because we are at the top of the food chain or because we can alter our environment - the environment will outlast us with its unfathomable forces and unyielding powers. But rather than be bound and defeated by our insignificance, we are bold because we exercise our will anyway, despite the ephemeral and delicate presence we have in this desert, on this planet, in this universe.
- Aron Ralston
The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.
- Ayn Rand
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
- Robert Redford
It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.
- Godfrey Reggio
I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well get the upside for it and dedicate that upside to improving the environment in so many different ways.
- Ed Rendell
And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over.
- Ed Rendell
In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.
- Jeremy Rifkin
Once you develop your own style, you know when you're able to give your best. Feeling at home is part of it, and I don't think that's an L.A. thing. It's a matter of the environment and of what affects you.
- Herb Ritts
The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.
- Anita Roddick
You know, the environment is fragmenting, and the environment is, in many places, absolutely hideous!
- Richard Rogers
The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.
- Richard Rogers
The environment is better and better for Democrats.
- Stuart Rothenberg
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