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“I'm convinced after spending three weeks in China and Tibet, unless the United States gets its act together, our grandchildren will be living in a world dominated by the People's Republic. China is simply inexorable in its pursuit of wealth, growth and power. It cares little about human rights, democracy, labor protections, fair trade rules or the environment. It is relentless in advancing its national interests.”

“Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what’s missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that’s why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment.”

“Canada regards herself as responsible to all mankind for the peculiar ecological balance that now exists so precariously in the water, ice and land areas of the Arctic archipelago. We do not doubt for a moment that the rest of the world would find us at fault, and hold us liable, should we fail to ensure adequate protection of that environment from pollution or artificial deterioration.”

“Scientific and technological "solutions" which poison the environment or degrade the social structure and man himself are of no benefit, no matter how brilliantly conceived or how great their superficial attraction.”

Men Matter Social Environment Benefits Solutions Structure Attraction Poison Technological Superficial Degrade Social Structure

Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

“I think that as a playwright, if I detail that environment, then I'm taking away something from them [designers]. I'm taking away their creativity and their ability to have input themselves, not just to follow what the playwright has written. So I do a minimum set description and let the designers create within that.”

Ifs Thinking Ability Creativity Environment Written Details Designer Description Minimum Playwright Input Playwriting

Author:August Wilson

“Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.”

Economy Environment Security Food Circumstances Innovation Locals Farmers Adapted Food Security

Author:Bill Gates

“The Earth is our environment to protect and the garden to tend to.”

Earth Environment Protect Garden Our Environment

Author:Pope Francis

“Small quarrels and tensions were expected because of our new environment. Every relationship has them. Each quarrel was soon forgotten and floated away on a wave. And then sometimes, on our silly days, the arguments returned on the wave, but the wave returned taller, a Tsunami, and neither of us knew where to run or what to do.”

Sometimes Running Environment Argument Forgotten Wave Expected Silly Tension Quarrels Tsunami New Environment

Author:Craig Stone

“I'd have to say my favorite thing about working on the show, and something that might be intriguing to other people, is that it's just such an amazingly welcoming environment to work in.”

People Shows Might Environment My Favorite Welcome Intriguing Favorites Things

Author:Donal Logue

“It's always surprised me that the most successful and really amazing shows are also the happiest environments, and very welcoming.”

Shows Successful Environment Welcome Really Amazing

Author:Donal Logue

“It's so nerve-wracking to go out into a stadium, feeling a billion eyes upon you when you mess up your touches. That's an overwhelming environment.”

Feelings Eye Environment Billions Mess Nerves Overwhelming Stadiums

Author:Donal Logue

“Because I've been that drunk person in the club so many thousands of times, when I'm in an environment where people are drunk or on drugs, I certainly don't judge them. Because it's almost a given that for much of my life I've been way more messed up than them.”

People Way Persons Given Environment Judging Drug Clubs Drunk Messed Up

Author:Moby

“It's worth remembering that all technology leaves a footprint. For example, our own technology is leaving a footprint in terms of global warming, which could be detected from a long way away. One assumes that a very advanced civilization that has been around maybe millions and millions of years would have an even bigger footprint that might extend beyond its planet to its immediate astronomical environment.”

Way Years Long Has Beens Might Remember Term Millions Technology Environment Example Planets Civilization Bigger Assuming Leaving Global Warming Long Way Footprint Advanced Civilization

Author:Paul Davies

“When it comes to the environment and global warming from emissions, it has to be dealt with in one of two ways - preemptive regulations, which I don't agree with, or with private property principles. Nobody has the right to pollute their neighbors' air or water or land.”

Way Two Water Principles Environment Air Land Agree Property Neighbor Global Warming Regulation Two Ways Emissions Private Property

Author:Ron Paul

“Outsourcing is a reflection of a bad economic environment domestically. If you fix that, you fix outsourcing. Our primary export is paper money, and that should change if you change the monetary policy.”

Ifs Should Environment Economic Policy Paper Reflection Primaries Monetary Outsourcing Monetary Policy Paper Money

Author:Ron Paul

“I had never worked in that environment where you're able to play.”

Play Able Environment

Author:Mark-Paul Gosselaar

“Street politics is what happens in our everyday life, living in the bando. It's the environment around us and what we doing in the streets. We [Migos] talking about how many snakes there are in the grass and talking about how people can hurt you, and talking about how that can help you gain knowledge.”

People Helping Happens Hurt Talking Environment Streets Gains Everyday Grass Everyday Life Snakes Life Living

Author:Quavo

“I could never work in a recording studio where you have this lovely view and a beach and the waves are crashing. For me, it's all about being in a tiny room with little windows. It's almost like you have to be in a prison. And you can create beauty when you're in that sort of deprived environment, which is a re-creation of your formative years.”

Years Littles Rooms Views Environment Creation Like You Window Prison Wave Studios Tiny Lovely Beach Deprived Recording Studio Formative Years

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.”

Inspirational Humans Purpose Individual Understanding Human Beings Environment Feminism Unique Feminist Combination Uniqueness Heredity Heredity And Environment

Author:Gloria Steinem

“The most frustrating things is when you read something that has so much potential, but there are other little red flags where you think, I don't know that I would see eye-to-eye with the people making this film. And that is the worst environment to enter, and absolutely not worth the risk.”

People Thinking Knows Littles Eye Film Environment Risk Worst Red Flags Frustrating Red Flags Frustrating Things

Author:Anna Kendrick

“Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.”

Bigs Differences Views Environment Landscape Ecosystems

Author:Michael Heizer

“In my view, the holy is not based so much on the physical environment, but on the experience and perceptions of it.”

Views Environment Holy Perception

Author:Anthony Lawlor

“My monumental netted sculptural environments move through time, animated by an ever-changing 'wind choreography,' making invisible air currents suddenly visible to the human eye. I make living, breathing pieces that respond to the forces of nature - wind, light, water.”

Humans Light Eye Moving Force Water Environment Pieces Air Movement Wind Currents Invisible Breathing Visible Animated Rough Times Choreography Forces Of Nature Human Eyes

Author:Janet Echelman

“Art is viable when it finds elements in the surrounding environment. Our ancestors drew their subject matter from the religious attitudes which weighed on their souls. We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles around us.”

Art Soul Matter Inspiration Religious Attitude Environment Subjects Elements Draws Art Is Miracle Ancestor Tangible Subject Matter

Author:Umberto Boccioni

“We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression.”

People May Long Feelings Environment Rage Manipulate Attempting Our Environment Exaggerated Suppression Powerlessness

Book:The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition

Source: The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition

“A premise of the new city is that we want a society to be as egalitarian as possible. For this purpose, quality-of-life distribution is more important than income distribution. [And quality of life includes] a living environment as free of motor vehicles as possible.”

Want Important Purpose Cities Quality Environment Income Vehicle Distribution Motor Quality Of Life Premises Motor Vehicles Income Distribution

Author:Enrique Penalosa

“The important things for a mom is that her kids are watched, and are safe and it's a good care environment.”

Important Care Kids Environment Mom Safe Important Things

Author:Gary Myers

“Human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social sector, that is, the nongovernmental, nonprofit organization, can create what we now need, communities for citizens... What the dawning 21st century needs above all is equally explosive growth of the nonprofit social sector in building communities in the newly dominant social environment, the city.”

“Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes to find some ordering force, constraining evolution to certain directions and overriding the influence of natural selection. [...] Darwinism is not the theory of capricious change that Koestler imagines. Random variation may be the raw material of change, but natural selection builds good design by rejecting most variants while accepting and accumulating the few that improve adaptation to local environments.”

“The contingency of history (both for life in general and for the cultures of Homo sapiens ) and human free will (in the factual rather than theological sense) are conjoined concepts, and no better evidence can be produced than the "experimental" production of markedly different solutions in identical environments.”

Humans Different Culture Environment Solutions Concepts Evidence Productions Free Will Identical Theological Homo Sapiens Factual Contingency

Book:Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history

Source: Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history

“Our world is not an optimal place, fine tuned by omnipotent forces of selection. It is a quirky mass of imperfections, working well enough (often admirably); a jury-rigged set of adaptations built of curious parts made available by past histories in different contexts. A world optimally adapted to current environments is a world without history, and a world without history might have been created as we find it. History matters; it confounds perfection and proves that current life transformed its own past.”

“Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be achieved by greater simplicity in form and behavior as by ever-increasing complexity.”

Wells Might Form Natural Environment Greater Behavior Function Simplicity Locals Complexity Yield Selection Adaptation Natural Selection Habitat Natural Habitats

Book:Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

“A complete theory of evolution must acknowledge a balance between "external" forces of environment imposing selection for local adaptation and "internal" forces representing constraints of inheritance and development. Vavilov placed too much emphasis on internal constraints and downgraded the power of selection. But Western Darwinians have erred equally in practically ignoring (while acknowledging in theory) the limits placed on selection by structure and development what Vavilov and the older biologists would have called "laws of form.”

Source: Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History

“Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences. When the individual's behavior and consciousness get hooked to a routine sequence of external actions, he is a dead robot, and it is time for him to die and be reborn. Time to "drop out," "turn on," and "tune in.”

Action Dies Turns Individual Consciousness Environment Behavior Tunes Routine Artificial Trapped Robots Adaptation Sequence Turn-on Harmonious Hooked Reborn Repetitive

Book:Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out

Source: Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out

“The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment; the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible.”

Wish Causes Enjoy Environment Typical Westerners

Book:The Problem of China

Source: The Problem of China

“Childhood is analogous to language learning. It has a biological basis but cannot be realized unless a social environment triggers and nurtures it, that is, has need of it. If a culture is dominated by a medium that requires the segregation of the young in order that they learn unnatural, specialized, and complex skills and attitudes, then childhood, in one form or another, will emerge, articulate and indispensable.”

“If there are favourable habitats and favorable forms of association for animalsand plants, as ecology demonstrates, why not for men? If each particular natural environment has has its own balance; is there not perhaps an equivalent of this in culture?”

Ifs Men Form Culture Natural Environment Particular Balance Plant Why Not Association Ecology Natural Environment Habitat

Author:Lewis Mumford

“Man is the control experiment of heredity and environment; and since his heredity controls him, he tries to control his environment.”

Men Trying Environment Experiments Heredity Heredity And Environment

Author:Evan Esar

“Just because we can't sell shares in nature doesn't mean it has no value.”

Mean Values Environment Share Sells Vistas Clean Air

Book:Hot, flat, and crowded: why the world needs a green revolution, and how we can renew our global future

Source: Hot, flat, and crowded: why the world needs a green revolution, and how we can renew our global future

“The computer has evolved into a partner, a tool, and an environment--not just in science fiction, but in the public consciousness as well. Computers are no longer malevolent iron brains that manufacture tyrannical and oppressive answers; they are not a way to think, they are a place from which to think. The computer is an environment in which answers can be sought, created, manipulated and developed.”

Thinking Way Wells Answers Brain Consciousness Fiction Environment Computer Tools Science Fiction Partners Iron

Author:David Gerrold

“We have this sacred cow in our society that what the majority of people want is rightbut is it? Our populace can't really be informed, not the majority of themmost people vote the way they have been manipulated and by the way they have responded to that manipulationthey are working out their own patterns of wishful thinking on the social environment in which they live.”

People Thinking Way Want Has Beens Social Environment Vote Sacred Majority Patterns Work Out Our Society Manipulation Cows Wishful Thinking Sacred Cows Social Environment

Author:David Gerrold

“When a trout rising to a fly gets hoooked on a line and finds himself unable to swim about freeely, he begins with a fight which results in struggles and splashes and sometimes an escape. Often, of course, the situation is too tough for him. In the same way the human being struggles with his environment and with the hooks that catch him. Sometimes he masters his difficulties; sometimes they are too much for him. His struggles are all that the world sees and it naturally misunderstands them. It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.”

“Most robotic vacuum cleaners don't see their environment, have little suction, and don't clean properly. They are gimmicks. We've been developing a unique 360 vision system that lets our robot see where it is, where it has been, and where it is yet to clean. Vision, combined with our high speed digital motor and cyclone technology, is the key to achieving a high performing robot vacuum - a genuine labor saving device.”

“I grew up on movie sets, I'm comfortable on sets. A movie set is like a circus. I don't understand why moviemaking has to be such an insane environment.”

Environment Grew Comfortable Grew Up Insane Circus Movie Sets

Author:Jason Reitman

“I think when you're put into a completely different situation and environment, you really see who you are. You're not affected by what's around you. You are who you are.”

Thinking Different Situation Environment Who You Are Affected

Author:Lauren Conrad

“We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.”

Problem Sound Voice Ability Environment Military Communication Tests Backgrounds Superiors Code Selection Noisy Personnel

Author:M. H. Abrams

“Trust is the glue that holds everything together. It creates the environment in which all of the other elements win-win stewardship agreements, self-directing individuals and teams, aligned structures and systems, and accountability can flourish.”

Self Together Winning Individual Environment Team Elements Structure Agreement Accountability Stewardship Glue Win Win

Book:First Things First

Source: First Things First

“Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives. Cancerphobia taught us the fear of a polluting environment; now we have the fear of polluting people that AIDS anxiety inevitably communicates. Fear of the Communion cup, fear of surgery: fear of contaminated blood, whether Christ's blood or your neighbor's.”

People Universe Christ Environment Blood Taught Disease Anxiety Communicate Sexuality Aids Neighbor Cups Communion Surgery Register Taught Us

Author:Susan Sontag

“The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we can achieve great things only by defying the gods; and that this defiance inevitably brings its own punishment.”

World Littles Made Environment Achieve Tragedy Protection Punishment Great Things Pleasant Hostile Nests Defiance Defying Hostile Environment

Book:The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society

Source: The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society

“My books have done extremely well, I know. But I don't honestly feel much different from when I began to write. I still think we have a long way to go. I suppose my name means more in Nigeria today than it did five years ago. But I feel the job that literature should do in our community has not even started. It's not yet part of the life of the nation. We are still at the beginning. It's a big beginning, because now we are catching the next generation in the schools. When I was their age, I had nothing to read that had any relevance to my own environment.”

Source: Conversations with Chinua Achebe

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