“It's difficult to really be an artist nowadays. People are just on another page. You have a society that needs you to say something, but they don't want to give you the environment to be able to be just a functioning, happy, normal person. It's like, the industry is at odds with you, the society is at odds with you. You start to live in this very confined box where it's like, It's "me" and "them."” PeopleWantNeedsGivingPersonsAbleArtistDifficultEnvironmentIndustryNormalPagesBoxesOddsNeed YouConfined Author:Mos Def
“Well, it's pretty ironic to get an artist achievement award from the same foundation that disavowed one of my artistic achievements (that they had also earlier funded). It's a goddamn brainteaser. The Endowment had reinforced the worst bullying tactics of powerful lobbying groups and had created a less-secure environment for their own funded project to do its work in” WellsArtistPowerfulEnvironmentGroupsWorstAchievementProjectsFoundationSecureArtisticAwardsBullyingIronicTacticsEndowmentLobbying Author:Jon Rubin
“I was a corporate trouble-shooter for many years, and I know what it is like to walk very carefully into a hostile environment.” KnowsYearsWalksEnvironmentTroubleCorporateHostileShooterHostile Environment Author:Charles Todd
“There has been a concerted effort to frame caring about climate change and the environment as an alternate religion - one that worships the creation rather than the creator, so to speak.” Has BeensSpeakEffortEnvironmentCreationWorshipClimateClimate ChangeCreatorCaring Author:Katharine Hayhoe
“There are definitely recurring themes in humanity's relationship with our environment. The biggest is probably adaptation, because humans are incredibly good at adapting to new environments in relatively short periods of time. The ancestors of Homo sapiens started leaving Africa over one million years ago, moving from warm, tropical climates into the freezing wilderness of Europe and the desert ecosystems of the Middle East.” YearsHumansMovingHumanityMillionsEnvironmentMiddlePeriodsEuropeYears AgoClimateLeavingWarmEastDesertThemeWildernessAncestorMiddle EastAdaptationOur EnvironmentHomo SapiensEcosystemsAdaptingFreezingTropicalRecurringNew EnvironmentRecurring Themes Author:Annalee Newitz
“One reason that we're so adaptable is that humans are excellent tool users and homebuilders. When our environment doesn't provide us with something that we need, we try to make it ourselves out of whatever is available, whether that's rock or wood or ore or DNA.” NeedsTryingHumansReasonEnvironmentRocksToolsAvailableWoodsExcellentUsersDnaOur EnvironmentAdaptable Author:Annalee Newitz
“Some time ago we discovered the carbon cycle - a long-term set of chemical reactions that govern climates based on how much carbon is free in the atmosphere. At that point, it became clear that humans were affecting our environments far more profoundly than we realized. By releasing so much carbon and greenhouse gas into the environment, we're making long-term changes to every aspect of the natural world.” WorldHumansLongTermNaturalClearEnvironmentAspectClimateReactionsAtmosphereLong TermGasCyclesChemicalsCarbonNatural WorldOur EnvironmentGreenhousesGreenhouse GasesChemical ReactionsCarbon Cycle Author:Annalee Newitz
“The fact that we have been able to perturb the carbon cycle with our industrial revolution is evidence of how vulnerable we are - because when we destroy our environments, we destroy our food and energy supplies. In short, we destroy ourselves.” Has BeensFactsAbleEnergyEnvironmentRevolutionEvidenceVulnerableCyclesCarbonOur EnvironmentSuppliesIndustrial RevolutionCarbon Cycle Author:Annalee Newitz
“The fact is that humans have been shaping the genetics of what they eat for thousands of years. Genetic engineering simply speeds up the process that used to take generations. Preventing people from getting things like golden rice or disease-resistant cassava destroys human life, and does not spare the environment in any way.” PeopleWayYearsHumansDoeHas BeensFactsUsedProcessEnvironmentGenerationsDiseaseSpeedGoldenHuman LifeEngineeringSparesRiceGeneticsPreventingGenetic Engineering Author:Annalee Newitz
“Humans are a great survivor species but our survival will be pretty grim if all of the plants and animals we depend on die out. That's why any human survival strategy has to include a plan to maintain our environment roughly in the state that it's in now.” IfsHumansStatesDiesAnimalEnvironmentPlansDependsSurvivalStrategyPlantSpeciesSurvivorOur EnvironmentGrimPlants And Animals Author:Annalee Newitz
“In terms of fiction, there are a number of writers who are thinking about the future of the environment whose work complements mine. Kim Stanley Robinson's novel 2312 is a great example, as is Tobias Buckell's novel Arctic Rising.” ThinkingTermNumbersFictionNovelEnvironmentExampleMinesRisingKimArcticComplementStanleyTobiasThinking About The Future Author:Annalee Newitz
“I'm guessing that musicals didn't make sense anymore because of the changes in the political environment that began in the late Sixties, an era of self-awareness and social revolutions.” SelfPoliticalSocialEnvironmentAwarenessRevolutionLateSelf AwarenessErasMake SenseSixtyGuessingSocial RevolutionPolitical Environment Author:Carmen Ejogo
“I don't understand "animal people" who say they are not environmentalists. Do they not realize that the vast majority of animals live in the environment?” PeopleRealizingAnimalEnvironmentMajorityEnvironmentalist Author:Karen Dawn
“When I see vegan food sold in single-use plastic containers, I get frustrated knowing that plastic is not really recycled; it is down-cycled to less and less reusable grades, and too much of it eventually ends up in the ocean - where it kills animals. Caring for animals means caring for the environment they live in, and vice versa.” MeanEndsUseAnimalKnowingEnvironmentToo MuchOceanVicesCaringGradesVeganPlasticFrustratedVice VersaContainersRecycledVegan Food Author:Karen Dawn
“Growing up in rural Utah had a lot of benefits, but in an environment that prized conformity, fit wasn't one of them. I ended up in my senior year with a 0.9 GPA, which I think you actually have to work pretty hard to get. In the exact same month they kicked me out of school, my girlfriend - still my wife today - told me she was pregnant. So, it was an interesting start to life: working 10 or 12 minimum-wage jobs; getting bored really quickly and quitting; having my in-laws - rightly - in full panic mode and thinking I had some kind of character flaw.” ThinkingYearsKindStillsHardCharacterTodaySchoolJobsLawInterestingGrowing UpEnvironmentWifeGrowingMonthsFitBenefitsMy WifeQuittingBoredGirlfriendFlawsConformityPanicPregnantMinimumSeniorIn-lawsMy GirlfriendMinimum WageUtahWere PregnantSenior YearCharacter FlawsGpa Author:L. Todd Rose
“And again, the political economy in that particular environment means that, if my attraction ever coheres as a thought at all, it's never going to be verbalized, because that will mess up the education environment, it will mess up everything. You cannot claim to be doing good if you're moving in that direction.” IfsMeanMovingPoliticalEconomyEnvironmentParticularClaimsAttractionMessDoing GoodMoving InPolitical Economy Author:Anne Elizabeth Moore
“I think the house call is one of the ways I get an insight into the ways in which people live and the importance of environment in keeping people healthy.” PeopleThinkingWayHouseEnvironmentHealthyImportanceInsight Author:Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey
“I have three boys. And I wanted to make sure it connected with them and then those guys who grew up like me, in environments like me.And then I knew something about science that your New York Times reader would be interested in. So I was thinking about it in multiple ways: I'll connect with the people who grew up like me first, and then the New York Times reader will be interested in the science because it's so good and they want to be "in the know."” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWantFirstsWould BeWantedGuyThreeBoysEnvironmentNew YorkGrewReaderGrew UpConnectedLike MeMultipleNew York Times Author:Carl Hart
“Most of my writing friends are working in academia. Most of my business school friends are always talking about bringing companies public, and money, and making money, and lots and lots of money. It's just a different environment.” WritingDifferentSchoolCompanyTalkingEnvironmentMaking MoneyLots Of MoneyAcademiaBusiness SchoolSchool FriendsDifferent Environments Author:Victoria Chang
“It took me awhile to not be ashamed to be a poet in the business environment, and to be a business person in the poet environment.” PersonsEnvironmentPoetAshamedBusiness PersonBusiness Environment Author:Victoria Chang
“I was lucky to be in a household where whatever I wanted to do was supported and my music was always such a natural part of me, and I was never told that I couldn't do it. So I've always been able to follow my heart and my instincts and what I love, that being my art. And I know that not everybody really has that chance or that environment, the same one that I did, so I kind of want to help in any way that I can.” KnowsWayWantHeartKindArtI CanHelpingAbleWantedNaturalChanceEnvironmentMy HeartLuckyInstinctHousehold Author:Zella Day
“Barry Manilow was very special for me. We've had many collaborations since then and all have been equally rewarding and musical. I've learned so much from him. I like being a student around him; observing him in his environment.” Has BeensEnvironmentSpecialStudentsMusicalI've LearnedCollaborationObserving Author:Dave Koz
“I think the addiction stuff, because I was already sort of outed in my family as a sexual person: as a sexually-adventurous and sexually-conflicted person and sexually-driven person. They already knew that about me. They knew that about me when I was eleven. My parents very consciously tried to provide an environment that would protect me from becoming a drug addict.” ThinkingPersonsStuffParentEnvironmentBecomingDrugProtectMy FamilyAddictionDrivenAddictElevenAdventurousSexuallyDrug Addict Author:Melissa Febos
“There was a time in my life that I may not have been that nice, and now I'm in a position to contribute to the education of young people, and teach them to be compassionate, be more loving, more caring, to not use profanity, to not pollute the environment - these are things that I address in my photography. I” PeopleMayHas BeensUseYoungTeachEnvironmentNicePositionPhotographyCaringAddressesCompassionateProfanity Author:Jamel Shabazz
“I had to introduce a lot of people into my writing environment which I thought at first I would find really difficult, but I actually found that I loved it. It meant that I was meeting different people; it meant that I was expressing myself in different ways.” PeopleWayWritingFirstsDifferentFoundDifficultEnvironmentMeetingsDifferent WaysIntroducingDifferent Peoples Author:Ella Henderson
“I'm not very much an open book, I do really express myself only through my music and when I'm in that safe environment and I don't have to let anything go out of the studios that I don't want to go out.” WantBookEnvironmentSafeStudiosOpen BookAnything GoesSafe Environment Author:Ella Henderson
“One of the scariest things to me was, I really feel like I'm a pretty even-keeled person with a good outlook and respect level, but in that environment, deep within the character, you see how easy it is to go to that place because you're one-upping each other and it's this heavy environment filled with young men trying to make an impression. It's dangerous. It's something that I became very conscious of afterwards.” MenFeelsTryingPersonsCharacterYoungEasyLevelsEnvironmentDangerousConsciousFilledHeavyImpressionYoung ManOutlookDeep Within Author:Nick Jonas
“The modern media environment is so overrun with bullshit and static and people trying to sell you stupid crap. It makes you want to bite yourself.” PeopleWantTryingEnvironmentModernMediaStupidSellsBitesBullshitCrapStaticModern Media Author:Brad Listi
“One of my favorite things about the Kung Fu Panda 3 is the look of it. We never go for realism. I think a lot of time when people go for 3D that's the mistake. Because we're never going for full realism - for computer generated live action films like Avatar the goal is realism, to make the audience feel like they are seeing something that is real. Lord of the Rings had character design and environments to make it look real, whereas we aren't going for that, we are going for something that is theatrically, viscerally, and emotionally real.” PeopleThinkingFeelsLooksRealCharacterActionFilmGoalMistakeLordAudienceEnvironmentSeeingDesignComputerMy FavoriteRingsRealismFavorites ThingsKung FuAction FilmsPandasKung Fu PandaCharacter Design Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“We actually tried to put in [Kung Fu Panda 3] all the things we wanted to put into the first two films. We're all the same people who've been working on the other films and we all had things we couldn't do, and had to leave on the table. We just couldn't achieve them before. This time we have multiple new environments and different styles of animation.” PeopleFirstsTwoDifferentWantedFilmEnvironmentAchieveStyleTablesMultipleAnimationDifferent StylesKung FuPandasNew EnvironmentKung Fu Panda Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“We have those new environments [during Kung Fu Panda 3] that give a scale to the movie, that are the spirit realm and the panda village. The spirit realm, having no gravity, having this massive space, allowed us to do huge action shots. All that we just couldn't do before. We just couldn't get the scale, we'd have to cheat them. This time we found ourselves more free.” GivingActionSpiritFoundSpaceEnvironmentHugeShotsScalesRealmsMassiveVillageGravityCheatKung FuPandasNew EnvironmentKung Fu Panda Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“I think more than being a woman is the fact that i'm an introvert. In the environment I work in people forget that i'm a woman which is wonderful it just shows what a wonderful environment i work in, no one treats me differently. They don't think that because i'm a woman i'll make decisions differently.” PeopleThinkingFactsShowsDecisionForgetEnvironmentWonderfulTreatsIntrovertBeing A Woman Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“I think a lot it was the theology, that the road to Jerusalem runs through Baghdad, that somehow if we broke apart the rejectionist states, like Iraq, then the whole Middle East would reconfigure itself into a more favorable environment for democracy and Israel and us.” IfsThinkingStatesWholeRunningDemocracyEnvironmentMiddleIraqIsraelEastTheologyBrokeMiddle EastJerusalemBaghdad Author:Chris Matthews
“My father, Arinze Ejiofor , was a musician and a doctor. Nobody's ever asked me about that combination and what growing up in that environment was like.” FatherGrowing UpEnvironmentGrowingMusicianDoctorsCombination Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor
“Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.” AmericaSocialAudienceIssuesEnvironmentEconomicMessagesHollywoodInstanceAppealsProgressiveHollywood MoviesEconomic Issues Author:Adam McKay
“Each of us as poets, as decent suffering human beings, has to find a way to run our lives that is compassionate toward one another and toward our environment.” WayHumansRunningSufferingHuman BeingsEnvironmentOur LivesPoetDecentCompassionateOur Environment Author:Sam Hamill
“I love raising awareness and encouraging people to take action for World Environment Day, because it demonstrates how individual voices can become a global chorus for change.” PeopleWorldActionIndividualVoiceEnvironmentAwarenessChorusWorld EnvironmentRaising Awareness Author:Li Bingbing
“In China, I helped introduce UNEP's campaign to reduce food waste on World Environment Day. The government took notice of food waste issues and now, when you over-order in a restaurant, you are encouraged to downsize. This is where people can really impact policy and vice versa!” PeopleWorldGovernmentOrderIssuesEnvironmentPolicyWasteImpactVicesChinaCampaignsRestaurantsIntroducingVice VersaWorld EnvironmentFood Waste Author:Li Bingbing
“I was born in northeastern China, where we have the privilege to see forests just out of the window. And I thought, I am going to do something because I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert. From that day on, environment protection weighs the same in my life as my professional acting career.” EarthBornActingCareersEnvironmentImagineWindowPrivilegeChinaProtectionForestsDesertHometown Author:Li Bingbing
“We would solve a lot of huge problems that are causing massive suffering. Poverty, violence, homophobia, heterosexism, racism, the environment - all these things that are crippling us. We need big, bold, dangerous, crazy ideas to solve these problems. When failure is not an option, innovation and creativity are not options.” NeedsIdeasProblemBigsSufferingPovertyCreativityEnvironmentViolenceCrazyDangerousHugeRacismInnovationSolveMassiveHomophobiaCreativity And InnovationFailure Is Not An OptionCrazy Ideas Author:Brené Brown
“The decrease in incidents of death from cancer is largely attributable to new medicines or therapeutics. Perhaps a third is attributable to changing our environment, and that includes of course smoking which I believe accounted for probably 20 percent of deaths from, certainly from lung cancer, more than that from lung cancer, but from cancer overall.” BelieveCoursesI BelieveEnvironmentPercentThirdsMedicineCancerSmokingLungsIncidentsOur EnvironmentDecreaseLung Cancer Author:Laurie Glimcher
“What reminds you in your environment about saving? Nothing.” EnvironmentSavingOur Environment Author:Dan Ariely
“I love Leonardo DiCaprio. He just makes really great films with great directors. He has great relationships with directors but also has a great social awareness. I think he balances his work with his responsibilities to his world, the environment, things like that very well. I'm very impressed by him and I admire him a lot. And other actors like Joaquin Phoenix, I just look at him and marvel at his unexpectedness, just his work really.” ThinkingWorldWellsLooksFilmActorsSocialResponsibilityEnvironmentAwarenessBalanceDirectorsAdmireImpressedReally GreatPhoenixGreat FilmLeonardoGreat RelationshipSocial AwarenessUnexpectedness Author:Douglas Booth
“I hate doing anything in offices. I either want to be out in the world or in my own environment - and it should be your own environment that you work in.” WorldWantShouldHateMy OwnEnvironmentOfficeI Hate Author:William Monahan
“One of the big lessons from behavioral economics is that we make decisions as a function of the environment that we're in.” BigsDecisionEnvironmentLessonsEconomicsFunctionBehavioral Economics Author:Dan Ariely
“Your immediate environment is comprised of coffee shops, supermarkets, websites, apps and all kinds of things - none of which have an interest in your long-term or short-term financial well-being.” WellsKindLongTermInterestEnvironmentFinancialCoffeeAll KindsWell BeingLong TermShopsShort TermWebsiteSupermarketsAppsCoffee Shop Author:Dan Ariely
“People like Tywin Lannister are very much victims of that system, and of that environment: 'This is my place, don't threaten it'. I don't know how relevant that is to today. Politics is the most corrupt profession on earth, no matter where you are.” PeopleKnowsMatterTodayEarthKnow HowEnvironmentVictimProfessionWhere You AreRelevantLannisters Author:Charles Dance
“Our expertise is preparing foods in tough environments. We have a kitchen where we grill and roast and make smelly stuff happen, and then bring it to the site and warm it in a way that makes it taste just-cooked.” WayHappensStuffEnvironmentTasteToughWarmKitchenSitePreparingExpertiseSmellyStuff HappensPreparing Food Author:David Castle
“I wanted to create an environment in which more than just personal essays could be represented, and in which stranger approaches to making essays could be celebrated.” WantedEnvironmentApproachStrangerEssaysPersonal Essays Author:John D'Agata
“Renaissance man, woman, either way it's a worthy pursuit! Like the painters of Emilia's day, I was raised in an environment that encouraged creative expression. Both my parents were artists, who didn't think much of TV and refused to upgrade our old black and white set. To entertain myself, I made art and wrote puppet shows.” ThinkingMenWayArtMadeShowsArtistParentBlackWhiteCreativeEnvironmentExpressionTvsRaisedWorthyPursuitPainterBlack And WhiteMen WomenRenaissancePuppetsCreative ExpressionRenaissance ManPuppet Shows Author:Mary Pope Osborne