Best environment & may Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those resources, learned or unlearned, which may be at its disposal.”

May Problem Natural Deals Environment Failing Evolution Bird Resources Population Solve Selection Natural Selection Beavers

Book:THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE

Source: THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE

“The gap between the rich and poor is growing among and within most nations. The political and social effects of unequal location of energy and other mineral resources are acute. Population numbers continue to climb. The global environment shows signs of widespread deterioration. Both natural and social environments are increasingly vulnerable to catastrophic disturbances... There may, however, be a cheering challenge in the possibility that out of its struggle with these realities the human race may move a bit nearer to behaving as if it were indeed one family.”

“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

“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

“Is it reasonable to suppose that we can apply a broad-spectrum insecticide to kill the burrowing larval stages of a crop-destroying insect ... without also killing the 'good' insects whose function may be the essential one of breaking down organic matter and maintaining healthy soil?”

May Matter Environment Stage Healthy Essentials Function Killing Soil Reasonable Broads Destroying Breaking Down Insects Maintaining Spectrum Crops Insecticides Burrowing

Book:Silent Spring

Source: Silent Spring

“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

“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.”

“A gentleman of ambition is aware of the people he wishes to be associated with both socially and commercially. He knows that moving through different levels of society is akin to stepping through different rooms in an enormous house, each door leading to a grander environment than the last. He may, of course, settle for the comfort of any room he reaches. Alternatively, he may continue through successive doors to surround himself with even greater fineries and riches.”

People Knows May Different Lasts Moving Courses House Wish Levels Rooms Environment Greater Doors Comfort Ambition Riches Enormous Settling Gentleman Surround Different Levels

Author:Chris Murray

“Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.”

Giving May Has Beens Environment Childhood Instinct Intuition Acquire Spontaneous Multicultural Reflexes Bathing Responsiveness

Author:Carlos Ghosn

“Utopia is a meta-utopia: the environment in which Utopian experiments may be tried out; the environment in which people are free to do their own thing; the environment which must, to a great extent, be realized first if more particular Utopian visions are to be realized stably.”

People Ifs Firsts May Vision Environment Particular Experiments Utopia Utopian

Book:Anarchy, state, and utopia

Source: Anarchy, state, and utopia

“No, what worries me is that I might in a sense adapt to this environment and come to be comfortable here and not resent it anymore. And I am afraid that as the years go by that I may forget, I may begin to lose my memories of the mountains and the woods and that's what really worries me, that I might lose those memories, and lose that sense of contact with wild nature in general. But I am not afraid they are going to break my spirit.”

Years May Might Spirit Loses Memories Forget Break Worry Environment Mountain Comfortable Woods Contact Not Afraid Resent

Author:Theodore Kaczynski

“Questions are far more effective than defensive statements. They do not imply agreement, but they do convey interest and a desire to understand and facilitate an environment for peak performance, a central thread of effective leadership.... The next time someone accuses you of virtually anything, ask some questions. Resolving the situation may take more time, but the outcome will likely be more productive for both of you.”

May Desire Next Asks Interest Situation Environment Performances Statements Outcomes Productive Agreement More Time Thread Next Time Facilitate Effective Leadership Peak Performance

Book:Micromessaging: Why Great Leadership is Beyond Words: Why Leadership is Great Beyond Words

Source: Micromessaging: Why Great Leadership is Beyond Words: Why Leadership is Great Beyond Words

“I don't mean to imply that we are in imminent danger of being wiped off the face of the earth - at least, not on account of global warming. But climate change does confront us with profound new realities. We face these new realities as a nation, as members of the world community, as consumers, as producers, and as investors. And unless we do a better job of adjusting to these new realities, we will pay a heavy price. We may not suffer the fate of the dinosaurs. But there will be a toll on our environment and on our economy, and the toll will rise higher with each new generation.”

“My hope is that we continue to do an even better job in terms of our nation's energy policy, so that we may even further reduce our reliance on foreign sources of oil and take better care of our environment in the process.”

May Care Jobs Energy Nations Process Term Environment Policy Source Oil Reliance Our Environment Better Jobs Energy Policy

Author:John M. McHugh

“Even with all that - excellent treatment, wonderful family and friends, supportive work environment - I did not make my illness public until relatively late in life, and that's because the stigma against mental illness is so powerful that I didn't feel safe with people knowing. If you hear nothing else today, please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics'. There are people with schizophrenia, and these people may be your spouse, they may be your child, they may be your neighbor, they may be your friend, they may be your coworker.”

“Oh, talk as we may of beauty as a thing to be chiselled from marble or wrought out on canvas, speculate as we may upon its colors and outlines, what is it but an intellectual abstraction, after all? The heart feels a beauty of another kind; looking through the outward environment, it discovers a deeper and more real love-liness.”

Feels Heart Kind May Real Beauty Environment Color Intellectual Deeper Real Love Canvas Abstraction Marble Outlines

Book:Literary recreations and miscellanies

Source: Literary recreations and miscellanies

“If responsibility for the upbringing of children is to continue to be vested in the family, then the rights of children will be secured only when parents are able to make a living for their families with so little difficulty that they may give their best thought and energy to the child's development and the problem of helping it adjust itself to the complexities of the modern environment.”

Ifs Giving May Children Littles Helping Problem Able Energy Parent Responsibility Poverty Environment Rights Modern Development Difficulty Complexity Upbringing Secured

Author:Suzanne La Follette

“Listen - man is a child of Nature. When he turns against his mother - he's done! He may not find out about it right away, but he will.”

Men May Children Done Mother Turns Nature Environment

Book:The Stone Field

Source: The Stone Field

“I stick closely to the structure of the myths. I may have some fun with the mythology by changing the environment to modern-day, but the structure of the myths, the monsters, the relationships of the gods - none of that is made up.”

May Made Fun Environment Modern Structure Sticks Myth Mythology Monsters Modern Day

Author:Rick Riordan

“Every time a bit of information is erased, we know it doesn't disappear. It goes out into the environment. It may be horribly scrambled and confused, but it never really gets lost. It's just converted into a different form.”

Knows May Different Form Lost Bits Environment Information Disappear Confused

Author:Leonard Susskind

“Sometimes when I talk to little children I remind them of the fact that when I was growing up myself, I used to play with frog eggs and tadpoles and I used to walk in the field, I used to literally copy whatever my mother was doing on the land. And that may be the reason why I eventually developed the passion for green and for the Earth. So it is extremely important for adults and especially those who are in charge of cities to make sure that we do not lose touch with the land and with the environment. And especially our children.”

“Purify your heart. Cleanse it. Make it a wake-up routine. Your environment may be harsh, difficult and tumultuous but if you work on your heart, you can be calm amidst all those challenges.”

Ifs Heart May Difficult Challenges Emotion Environment Wake Up Calm Routine Harsh Our Environment

Author:Rita Zahara

“The desert ... may serve better as the backdrop for the problematic relationship between man and the environment. The human struggle, the successes ... both noble and foolish, are readily apparent in the desert. Symbols and relationships seem to arise that stand for the human condition itself.”

Men Humans May Seems Struggle Environment Conditions Photography Noble Foolish Arise Symbols Desert Human Condition Backdrop

Book:Desert Cantos

Source: Desert Cantos

“Happiness comes from within you. If your heart is happy, you can do anything you put your mind to do. Purify your heart. Cleanse it. Make it a wake-up routine. Your environment may be harsh, difficult and tumultuous but if you work on your heart, you can be calm amidst all those challenges. So, to be happy, you not only have to work with all your heart. You have to work on your heart. You will glow from the inside out”

Ifs Mind Heart May Difficult Can Do Challenges Environment Wake Up Calm Routine Within You Harsh Our Environment

Author:Rita Zahara

“In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs almost invariably in individuals within our society is nevertheless due not to original nature but to social environment; and a homogeneous and simple development of the individual may be studied.”

Humans May Different Individual Social Simple Environment Human Nature Development Behavior Aspect Originals Dues Our Society Contrast Nevertheless Homogeneous Social Environment

Book:Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education

Source: Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education

“It would be rash to conclude that, on balance, the environment of the globe as a whole is either deteriorating or improving, or that the survival of the societies we know depends upon filling a simple set of prescriptions. It is all too complex and dynamic, whether it involves managing greenhouse gases or Nile snails... The future condition of the globe's interlocking natural and social systems depends more on human behavior than on the further investigation of natural processes, however desirable that may be.”

“The time has come when we cannot be so careless. Unless we do better, we may suffer through a stark emergency of the environment. We may create a hostile world: a world to bruise ourselves against; a world of sprawling cities, unplanned or badly planned; a world whose water is full of sludge, whose winds are full of soot; a world whose landscape has been totally neglected, stripped, marred, and wasted. All of this need not happen if we choose well, and particularly if we plan well and if we act well.”

Ifs World Needs Wells May Has Beens Happens Suffering Water Cities Environment Plans Wind Environmental Landscape Hostile Emergencies Stewardship Neglected Careless Starks Bruises

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Man is suddenly becoming aware that by an ill-considered exploitation of nature he risks destroying it and becoming in his turn the victim of this degradation. Not only is the material environment becoming a permanent menace - pollution and refuse, new illness and absolute destructive capacity - but the human framework is no longer under man's control, thus creating an environment for tomorrow which may well be intolerable. This is a wide-ranging social problem which concerns the entire human family.”

“We accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the country, may legally secure the right to come in and, by the very nature of their enterprises, leave in their wake a cultural and physical landscape utterly transformed and desecrated. What's more, in granting such mining concessions, often initially for trivial sums to speculators from distant cities, companies cobbled together with less history than my dog, the government places no cultural or market value on the land itself.”

“And at this moment in history, our core value happens to be the raw, aching truth of the human predicament. It may also be the only belief that can save us as a species. A species that will continue to find comfort and delight in the companionship of animals, the miracle of birds, the colours of the corals and the majesty of the forests. We are in it together, on this blue spinning marble in the cold and silent void. And we must act on that belief, if we are going to be able to continue to live a good life here, in this beautiful and fragile country, on this lovely planet, our only home.”

“Just one mental shift-focusing on the abundance of your environment-switches your psychological settings so that your life automatically improves in many areas you may think are unrelated. This is essentially a leap from fear to faith.”

Thinking May Environment Areas Setting Psychological Settings Abundance Just One Leap

Author:Martha Beck

“Stanford may be the best university in the world, but you can get all the way through here without knowing where your food came from, without being able to say where we came from, without being able to give a coherent description of why the climate is changing and why we should be concerned about it. So I started teaching a course in human evolution and the environment that's open to all Stanford students, no prerequisites.”

“The hardest part of returning to a truly healthy environment may be changing the current totally unsustainable heavy-meat-eating culture of increasing numbers of people around the world. But we must try. We must make a start, one by one.”

People World Trying May Culture Numbers Environment Healthy Eating Currents Heavy Hardest Around The World Meat Meat Eating Healthy Environment

Author:Jane Goodall

“... Our individual well-being is intimately connected both with that of all others and with the environment within which we live.... Our every action, our every deed, word, and thought, no matter how slight or inconsequential it may seem, has an implication not only for ourselves, but for all others, too.”

Wells May Matter Seems Action Individual Environment Deeds Connected Well Being Implications Inconsequential

Book:Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium

Source: Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium

“Despite what you may have been taught about Indians or Africans or ancient Celts, poor people are terrible stewards of their environment. For instance, if my kid were starving to death, I would happily feed her fresh panda.”

People Ifs May Has Beens Kids Poor Environment Taught Terrible Ancient Despite Instance Poor People Starving Stewards Pandas Celts

Author:Jonah Goldberg

“I, and all the complex things around me, exist only because many things were assembled in a very precise way. The 'emergent' properties are not magical. They are really there and eventually they may start re-arranging the environments that generated them. But they don't exist 'in' the bits and pieces that made them; they emerge from the arrangement of those bits and pieces in very precise ways. And that is also true of the emergent entities known as "you" and "me".”

Way May Made Bits Known Environment Pieces Property Complexes Entity Arrangements Precise Arranging Bits And Pieces

Author:David Christian

“You cannot love a car the way you love a horse. The horse brings out human feelings the way machines cannot do. Things like machines may develop or neglect certain things in people ... Machines make our life impersonal and stultify certain elements in us and create an impersonal environment.”

People Way Humans May Feelings Certain Environment Our Lives Car Elements Machines Horse Neglect

Author:Albert Einstein

“If someone was to introduce hope and idealism into our political system, I think the tension that would create in other areas would certainly be ripe. You would think that if you bring oxygen to the organism, the organism lives. But there may be other organisms in there that thrive in darkness and in a more anaerobic environment. Watching those creatures writhe will always be interesting.”

Ifs Thinking May Political Politics Interesting Darkness Environment Creatures Areas Tension Thrive Introducing Organisms Idealism Oxygen Ripe Political Systems

Author:Jon Stewart

“It may sound strange, but when you're a kid and you're in that environment, for some reason for a long time you think, when the doors are closed in other houses, this is what it's like everywhere. And then at some point you begin to realize that isn't true, and books were really the educational system that showed me that there were many better and different ways to live a life.”

Thinking Way May Long Book Different Reason Kids House Sound Realizing Environment Doors Strange Long Time Educational Different Ways Way To Live Educational System

Author:Dean Koontz

“Ambient means the natural center or atmosphere of a space. All music has that in it- a space or center. I think it just means the atmosphere or what defines the environment of sound and maybe removing the more destructive, harsh elements and harder rhythmic elements and you get down to the stillness that's inherent. There's an ambient quality in every sound. You may have to enhance that to hear it or bring it out in a different way but there is that in every environmental sound.”

Thinking Way May Mean Different Sound Natural Space Quality Environment Elements Harder Environmental Atmosphere Different Ways Destructive Stillness Inherent Harsh Ambient

Author:Bill Laswell

“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.”

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“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”

People May Has Beens Use Young Teach Environment Nice Position Photography Caring Addresses Compassionate Profanity

Author:Jamel Shabazz

“The various processes of belief acquisition which are native to a species include ones which may allow for the reliable pick-up of information, which, in turn, allows individual members of the species to successfully negotiate their environment and satisfy their various desires.”

May Desire Turns Individual Belief Process Environment Information Members Picks Species Various Native Acquisition

Author:Hilary Kornblith

“The dream in your heart may be bigger than the environment in which you find yourself. Sometimes you have to get out of that environment to see that dream fulfilled. It’s like planting an oak sapling in a pot. Once it becomes rootbound, its growth is limited. It needs a great space to become a mighty oak. So do you.”

Needs Heart May Sometimes Dream Growth Space Environment Bigger Finding Yourself Pot Fulfilled Oaks Saplings Mighty Oaks

Author:Darren Hardy

“Despite one or two minority appeals our society is not outraged at man's unremitting use of the animal world. Ecologists and environmentalists may talk of "ecological consciousness" or "environmental responsibility" but seldom, if ever, is this responsibility articulated towards other non-human species in particular.”

Source: Animal rights: a Christian assessment of man's treatment of animals

“I think unscripted variety television may or may not get a bad rap now, but it is a fabulous environment. It is exactly who I am, and there's so much creativity there to express.”

Thinking May Creativity Environment Television Rap Who I Am Variety Fabulous

Author:James Pearse Connelly

“Working anti-social shifts in a difficult environment is undoubtedly challenging. But even militant staff may privately concede that some of the working conditions they enjoy are unusually benign.”

May Social Enjoy Difficult Challenges Environment Conditions Staff Militant Benign Anti Social Working Conditions

Author:Simon Calder

“Some things which are remote in space and time from a living creature, especially a human creature, may form his environment even more truly than some of the things close to him.”

Humans May Form Space Environment Creatures Time And Space Living Creatures

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“There needs to be the support and help around you, even when you may have an unhealthy home environment.”

Needs May Helping Home Support Environment Unhealthy Home Environment

Author:James Redford

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