Best Environment Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 4

“It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art.”

“For two summers not a blue wing, not a blue warble. I seemed to miss something kindred and precious from my environment--the visible embodiment of the tender sky and wistful soil. What a loss, I said, to coming generations of dwellers in the country--no bluebird in spring!”

Said Two Country Loss Environment Generations Sky Missing Summer Spring Blue Wings Soil Visible Embodiment Kindred Dwellers Bluebird

Book:Bird Neighbors - An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes

Source: Bird Neighbors - An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes

“Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of comprehension of the forces which make it work- of the principles which relate his gadgets to the forces of nature, to the universal order. It is not central heating which makes his existence 'unnatural,' but his refusal to take an interest in the principles behind it. By being entirely dependent on science, yet closing his mind to it, he leads the life of an urban barbarian.”

Source: The Act of Creation

“We need to teach people that the environment has a direct bearing on our own benefit.”

People Needs Teach Environment Teaching Benefits Direct

Book:My Tibet

Source: My Tibet

“It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors. Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.”

Source: A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42

“This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.”

Social Company Environment Waste Program Dollars Spending Harm Welfare Wealthy Taxpayers Reduction Mockery

Author:Ralph Nader

“In your cocoon, occasionally you shout complaints, such as, "Leave me alone!" "Bug off!" "I want to be who I am!"... which comes from fighting against your environment... You can raise your head and just take a little peek out of the cocoon... The environment is friendly. It is called "Planet Earth.”

Want Littles Earth Fighting Environment Planets Raises Complaining Who I Am Friendly Complaints Bugs Leaving Me Our Environment Me Alone Planet Earth Leave Me Alone Cocoons

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“When I came to the West, I realized there was much hunger for spiritual teachings, but no environment for spirituality.”

Spiritual Spirituality Environment Teaching West Hunger I Realized Spiritual Teaching

Author:Sogyal Rinpoche

“I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.”

Thinking Needs Looks Different Young Choices Stuff Creative Environment Style Healthy Weak Minorities Different Styles

Author:Peter Gabriel

“The world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.”

Men World Destiny Environment Tools Slave Cease Architect Transformed

Author:Che Guevara

“We have an opportunity to improve productivity and cut costs while growing our way to a better and a more comfortable operating environment. I don't think anyone feels comfortable about bumping around where we are today.”

Thinking Way Feels Today Opportunity Environment Cutting Growing Comfort Cost Comfortable Productivity

Author:Scott McNealy

“Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.”

Growth Environment Source Environmental Population Primaries Damage Population Growth Overpopulation Primary Source Environmental Damage

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“We are comfortable in this environment. Why not make ourselves comfortable over there?.”

Environment Comfort Comfortable Why Not

Author:Celine Dion

“We must be certain that the repair to the environment is sufficient to allow wild species to recover and survive.”

Certain Environment Species Sufficient

Author:Norm Dicks

“With 28 million children eating lunch at school every day in the United States, I believe government has an obligation to ensure parents have some peace of mind when they send their children off to school in the morning, .. Since children are particularly vulnerable to foodborne illness, schools must be vigilant in their efforts to ensure that cafeterias are not putting children at risk. These changes in law will support parents who want to work with school principals and food-service directors to ensure a safe environment.”

“The artists of Asia have spiritually realized form, rather than aesthetically invented or imitated form, and from them I have learned that art and nature are mind's Environment within which we can detect the essence of man's Being and Purpose, and from which we can draw clues to guide our journey from partial consciousness to full consciousness.”

Men Mind Art Form Purpose Artist Consciousness Environment Journey Draws Essence Guides I Have Learned Asia Clue

Author:Morris Graves

“When you have some skills but don't fully understand your environment, there is no way you can be a plus one. At best, you can be a zero. But a zero isn't a bad thing to be. You're competent enough not to create problems or make more work for everyone else. And you have to be competent, and prove to others that you are, before you can be extraordinary. There are no short-cuts, unfortunately.”

Way Enough Problem Environment Cutting Skills Prove Extraordinary Plus Bad Things Zero Be You Our Environment Competent Short Cuts

Book:An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

Source: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

“You must always be very cautious and be as vigilant as you can. You work diligently to provide a secure environment,.”

Environment Secure Cautious Diligence Vigilant

Author:Daryl Hall

“Buying pollution credits is folly; it doesn't help the environment. Instead of using tax dollars to buy credits overseas, we'll use them at home.”

Helping Use Home Environment Taxes Dollars Credit Folly Buying Pollution Tax Dollars

Author:Stephen Harper

“Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?”

People Kind Reason Fun Environment Dog Hot Reason Why Chemicals Bonus Hot Dog

Author:Neil Gaiman

“A necessary process for the artist is one which begins with a point of view, a reaction to the environment, to people, to whatever it is one is concerned with.”

People Artist Process Views Environment Concerned Point Of View Reactions Methodology

Author:Jacques Lipchitz

“I want my children to be able to meet and play and communicate with many other children on their own, not only when they are driven somewhere. I want them to grow up in an environment that is not just a place where people sleep but where people work.. and where people enjoy themselves.”

People Want Children Play Able Grows Enjoy Sleep Growing Up Environment Communicate Driven My Children

Book:Beyond Habitat by 20 years

Source: Beyond Habitat by 20 years

“I will be asking my network to lead a discussion on the issues of class, race, energy, the environment, disaster planning, Iraq -- all those things and more. This encompasses so many of the major issues of our time.”

Energy Race Class Issues Environment Majors Asking Iraq Disaster Planning Discussion Our Time

Author:Brian Williams

“I wish to explore the beauty of everyday environments; in troubled times it is especially important to be aware of beauty and wonder.”

Important Desire Wish Wonder Environment Everyday Troubled Times

Author:Elizabeth Barton

“We come from an environment molded from 3 billion years of evolution, and when we change our behavior, there may be problems.”

Years May Problem Environment Evolution Behavior Billions

Author:W. Richard Stevens

“Before this I tended to paint figures and put them in an environment. Now I paint an environment to put figures in. It's a subtle difference, but it is a difference. It's something I did naturally.”

Change Differences Environment Figures Paint Subtle

Author:John Newman

“I have always been interested in fashion as an informing design discipline: proportion structure, detail, materiality, texture, color and quality. With a heightened interest in, and an awareness of the built environment, the 'store' has become a critical, perceptual and psychological component of merchandising as well as imaging. Architecture and fashion are partners.”

“Our nation needs the BRAC process. No institution can remain successful if it does not adapt to its constantly changing environment. Our armed forces must adapt to changing global threats, evolving technology and new strategies and structures.”

Ifs Needs Doe Force Nations Process Technology Successful Environment Institutions Strategy Structure Threat Evolve Adaptability Armed Forces Changing Environment

Author:Anthony Principi

“But there are a couple of places where it is clear to me that there should be no ambiguity of corporate responsibility - the environment and civil rights, .. As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness.”

Should Desire Responsibility Clear Environment Rights Couple Obligation Civil Rights Corporate Corporations Fairness Ambiguity Unanimity Corporate Responsibility

Author:Leo Hindery

“The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.”

“Detecting and culling infected birds is still the key, and for that we have to compensate the owners of chicken whose flocks are killed. And we have to limit interaction between humans and birds, which is a huge challenge within an environment where people are used to living very close to their chickens.”

People Humans Stills Used Challenges Environment Huge Keys Limits Bird Owners Chickens Interaction Flocks Culling

Author:David Nabarro

“Obviously, the technology community in Massachusetts competes in a global economy, and our efforts to create a more competitive environment recognizes that competitiveness at a local level. We'd expect employers in other states to use this site as they consider where in Massachusetts to locate or expand their presence.”

States Use Community Levels Effort Technology Economy Environment Competition Locals Site Employers Global Economy Massachusetts Competitiveness

Author:Christopher Anderson

“We're starting to realize that magicians have a lot of implicit know-ledge about how we perceive the world around us because they have to deceive us in terms of controlling attention, exploiting the assumptions we make when we do and don't notice a change in our environment. There is an enormous amount of really detailed instruction on how to perform magic. People are always blown away by how detailed a description you'll have.”

“We have to shift our understanding of ourselves as separate individuals, each seeking our own welfare, to an understanding of how we fit into social, biological, and physical environments.”

Individual Social Understanding Environment Fit Seeking Welfare

Author:Robert E. Ornstein

“Requesting a change of environment was an extremely difficult decision. After a tremendous amount of reflection and numerous conversations with my family, it made the most sense to seek a change.”

Made Difficult Decision Environment Amount Conversation Reflection My Family Difficult Decisions

Author:Dany Heatley

“We are formed by environment and grace, by politics and prayer, by church and conscience. All God's creatures conspire to teach us as well. We stumble. We stutter. We rise. We are lifted.”

Wells Character Church Prayer Teach Environment Grace Creatures Conscience

Author:Anthony of Padua

“I felt the strange brooding lonely presence of Nature fostering a new race, a new age, and as part of it, a new expression in Art. It was an unfolding of the heart itself through the effect of environment, of people, of place, and time.”

People Heart Art Age Felt Race Environment Effects Strange Expression Future Lonely New Age Unfolding Brooding Fostering Place And Time

Author:Lawren Harris

“It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.”

Source: The Sea Around Us

“This is my letter to the world, that never wrote to me, the simple news that nature told, with tender majesty. Her message is committed, to hands I cannot see; for love of her, sweet countrymen, judge tenderly of me.”

World Hands Nature Simple Environment Sweet Judging Messages News Letters Committed Majesty Countrymen

Author:Emily Dickinson

“The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong.”

Stills Fighting Environment Tree Battle Conflict Eternal Environmental Forests Wilderness Our Environment Forests And Trees Yosemite

Book:JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

“For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.”