Best environment & mean Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The farmer and the farm, like "the environment," are looked upon, for example, as means to offset trade deficits. The farm is a place where we can externalize costs. The cost of pesticides to the farmer and the cost of the pesticides to the soil and groundwater are regarded similarly by the public: "a serious problem that something ought to be done about." But the problem is more fundamental than this glib statement would indicate, for soil pollution is an expense of production. So are pesticides and nitrates in our farm wells. So is the loss of farmers from the land.”

Wells Mean Done Problem Loss Environment Land Example Serious Ought Cost Fundamentals Trade Productions Statements Soil Expenses Farms Farmers Pollution Deficit Pesticides Groundwater

Author:Wes Jackson

“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

“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

“Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.”

Mean Doe Law Understanding Environment Environmental Operations Laws Of Nature Immune Nature And Environment Save Mother Earth Mean Girls Nature Conservation

Author:David Gerrold

“I imagine that as contemporary music goes on changing in the way that I'm changing it what will be done is to more and more completely liberate sounds from abstract ideas about them and more and more exactly to let them be physically uniquely themselves. This means for me: knowing more and more not what I think a sound is but what it actually is in all of its acoustical details and then letting this sound exist, itself, changing in a changing sonorous environment.”

Thinking Way Mean Ideas Done Sound Knowing Environment Imagine Goes On Details Contemporary Abstract Imagine That Contemporary Music Knowing More

Author:John Cage

“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.”

“Early intervention programs enrich adverse family environments. The largest effects of the early intervention programs are on noncognitive traits. Now, what do I mean by that? I mean perseverance, motivation, self-esteem, and hard work.”

Mean Self Hard Motivation Environment Effects Self Esteem Hard Work Program Perseverance Esteem Traits Intervention Adverse

Author:James Heckman

“The creative process ignites our imagination, and I believe that that same imagination is what will propel us forward with issues of social change. I do think we have to acknowledge that we are a very capitalistic and consumptive nation, and that talk about conservation or issues of sustainability is never going to be popular with the dominant culture because it means checks and balances on an economy that is reserved for the dollar, rather than an economy that honors and respects spiritual resources and the right of all life to participate on the planet, not just our species.”

“We know it (meat eating) is indisputably the number one cause of global warming. So what does it mean exactly to be an environmentalist on a daily basis if you are not thinking about the number one cause of global warming or one of the top two or three causes of all other environmental problems? Does it mean you are necessarily someone who doesn't care about the environment? Obviously not, but it might mean you have a blind spot for something big.”

“Our external environment no longer seems to have any firm boundaries, any limits, or any positive cues about when to stop consuming anything. I mean, there is a reason that people get fat - it's easy and cheap to get high-calorie, tasty food.”

People Mean Reason Seems Easy Environment Limits Boundaries Fats Firm Consuming Calories Getting High Tasty External Environment

Book:The Skinny Rules: The Simple, Nonnegotiable Principles for Getting to Thin

Source: The Skinny Rules: The Simple, Nonnegotiable Principles for Getting to Thin

“If you paint a building shocking pink, that has no scale, it is just a huge mistake, but it's not in the scale of the city to have things like that. You know. So, not only because it's not appropriate, not only because it's offensive to the environment, I mean but among them also because that quantity of that color in the urban scale, is out of scale.”

Ifs Knows Mean Cities Mistake Environment Building Color Huge Paint Scales Appropriate Quantity Offensive Urban Shocking

Author:Massimo Vignelli

“Autonomy means women defining themselves and the values by which they will live, and beginning to think of institutional arrangements which will order their environment in line with their needs.... Autonomy means moving out from a world in which one is born to marginality, to a past without meaning, and a future determined by others--into a world in which one acts and chooses, aware of a meaningful past and free to shape one's future.”

Thinking World Needs Mean Past Moving Values Order Born Lines Environment Shapes Independence Determined Meaningful Arrangements Autonomy Defining Moving Out

Author:Gerda Lerner

“Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly the road to be taken, decisions aimed at strengthening that covenant between human beings and the environment, which should mirror the creative love of God, from whom we came and towards whom we are journeying.”

“Respecting the environment does not mean considering material or animal nature more important than man. Rather, it means not selfishly considering nature to be at the complete disposal of our own interests, for future generations also have the right to reap its benefits and to exhibit towards nature the same responsible freedom that we claim for ourselves. Nor must we overlook the poor, who are excluded in many cases from the goods of creation destined for all.”

“The crimes committed against the people of West Papua are some of the most shameful of the past years. The Western powers have much to answer for, and at the very least should use their ample means to bring about the withdrawal of the occupying Indonesian army and termination of the shameful exploitation of resources and destruction of the environment and the lives and societies of the people of West Papua, who have suffered far too much.”

People Should Years Mean Use Past Answers Environment Too Much Crime Resources Destruction Army West Western Committed Exploitation Shameful Withdrawal Termination

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Science, pure science, is leading us in a sense astray. Leading us astray with the idea that everybody has got to have everything that they want even if it means polluting the entire environment. It is a case of lets just keep one or two canisters of the smallpox virus because we'll never know when we might need it. Science is becoming very much a Dark Power, in many ways.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Needs Mean Two Ideas Might Dark Cases Environment Becoming Pure Viruses Smallpox

Author:Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

“We [human beings] are two-legged omnivorous animals, and this means that we have many ecological niches, regarding the possible places where we can live. Therefore, we have to adapt to these different environments and we cannot predict, in a generic way, in which type of world we are going to live (cold as the North Pole or hot as Congo).”

World Way Humans Mean Two Different Human Beings Animal Environment Type Cold Hot Niche Congo Ecological Generic North Pole Different Environments

Author:Rodolfo Llinas

“As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.”

People Needs Wells Mean Important Care Artist Sound Inspiring Environment Produce Industry Musician Machines Take Care Well Being Nurture Really Mean

Author:Lauryn Hill

“Behavior influences consciousness. Right behavior means right consciousness. Our attitude here and now influences the entire environment: our words, actions, ways of holding and moving ourselves, they all influence what happens around us and inside us. The actions of every instant, every day, must be right...Every gesture is important. How we eat, how we put on our clothes, how we wash ourselves, how we go to the toilet, how we put our things away, how we act with other people, family, wife, work - how we are: totally, in every single gesture.”

People Way Mean Important Happens Action Moving Consciousness Attitude Environment Wife Influence Behavior Clothes Instant Gestures Toilets Here And Now Our Words

Author:Taisen Deshimaru

“I'm one of the few people up here who actually believes that we need a level playing field when it comes to manufacturing. That means a good tax code, a good regulatory environment, low energy prices, better opportunities for workers to get training...”

People Needs Believe Mean Opportunity Energy Levels Environment Fields Taxes Lows Training Workers Code Manufacturing Playing Fields Level Playing Field

Author:Rick Santorum

“The answer is navigation, manipulation, and implementation of more sophisticated intelligence. The idea that a robot will become more aware of its environment, that telling it to "go to the kitchen" means something - navigation and understanding of the environment is a robot problem. Those are the technological frontiers of the robotics industry.”

Mean Ideas Problem Understanding Answers Environment Industry Kitchen Manipulation Sophisticated Technological Robots Frontiers Robotics Implementation Navigation

Author:Colin Angle

“"Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs the probable past. Even far-out fantasy can present a significant test of human values exposed to a new environment. Deriving its most cogent ideas from the tension between permanence and change, science fiction combines the diversions of novelty with its pertinent kind of realism.”

“A disorganized workspace means disorganized work habits. A sloppy work environment equals sloppy results.”

Mean Results Environment Habit Sloppy Work Environment Disorganized Work Habits Workspace

Book:It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault

Source: It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault

“The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.”

Source: In defense of Harriet Shelley

“What's all this whining about the environment? They're always talking about 'stop the clearcuts.' I mean do the math people. If we were out of trees then we wouldn't have any clearcuts to be complaining about now would we?”

People Ifs Mean Talking Environment Tree Math Complaining Whining

Author:George W. Bush

“When you live around a working-class environment, you see what sports means to people. You see that it's the escape over the weekend. you see how they build their lives around it. People sort of want to get away from their lives.”

People Want Mean Sports Class Environment Get Away Weekend Working Class

Author:Joe Posnanski

“I think there's a lot of work to be done with our societies. My biggest passions are the environment and health. And when I say 'health' I mean the secrets behind health and our food system.”

Thinking Mean Done Passion Secret Behinds Environment Our Society Work To Be Done

Author:Shailene Woodley

“Whether happiness or unhappiness, freedom or slavery, in short whether good or evil results from an improved environment depends largely upon how the change has been brought about, upon the methods by which the physical results have been reached, and in what spirit and for what purpose the fruits of that change are used. Because a higher standard of living, a greater productiveness and a command over nature are not good in and of themselves does not mean that we cannot make good of them, that they cannot be a source of inner strength.”

“Healing is the return of the memory of wholeness. Healing, health, whole and holy all mean inclusiveness. Body, mind, spirit, environment, relationships, social interactions are all one wholeness, and you're a part of that one wholeness.”

Mind Mean Whole Body Spirit Social Memories Healing Environment Return Holy Interaction Wholeness Mind Body Spirit Social Interaction Inclusiveness

Author:Deepak Chopra

“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

“Just because your environment or living space changes doesn't mean that your attitude necessarily has to change.”

Mean Space Attitude Environment Our Environment

Author:Kevin Hart

“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.”

Mean Ends Use Animal Knowing Environment Too Much Ocean Vices Caring Grades Vegan Plastic Frustrated Vice Versa Containers Recycled Vegan Food

Author:Karen Dawn

“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.”

Ifs Mean Moving Political Economy Environment Particular Claims Attraction Mess Doing Good Moving In Political Economy

Author:Anne Elizabeth Moore

“The Greek idea of fate is moira, which means "portion." Fate rules a portion of your life. But there is more to life than just fate. There is also genetics, environment, economics, and so on. So it's not all written in the book before you get here, such that you don't have to do anything. That's fatalism.”

Mean Book Ideas Environment Fate Written Economics Greek Portions Genetics More To Life Fatalism

Author:James Hillman

“Human beings have been waging war and destroying the environment for long time. Just because it has been going on for a long time and become an unquestioned habit, does that mean it should be allowed to continue.”

Should Humans Mean Long Doe Has Beens War Human Beings Environment Habit Long Time Destroying Waging War Destroying The Environment

Author:Sharon Gannon

“Caring for animals means caring for the environment they live in, and vice versa.”

Mean Animal Environment Vices Caring Vice Versa

Author:Karen Dawn

“Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms.”

Needs Mean Environment Organisms Continuity Life Means Living Organisms Continuity Of Life

Book:Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

Source: Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

“We never educate directly, but indirectly by means of the environment. Whether we permit chance environments to do the work, or whether we design environments for the purpose makes a great difference.”

Mean Purpose Differences Chance Environment Design Permit Educate

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“The first office of the social organ we call the school is to provide a simplified environment. It selects the features which are fairly fundamental and capable of being responded to by the young. Then it establishes a progressive order, using the factors first acquired as means of gaining insight into what is more complicated.”

Firsts Mean School Young Order Social Environment Office Capable Fundamentals Insight Complicated Factors Features Progressive Organs

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“I have to create in India a macroeconomic environment where the employment in aggregate can go up at a handsome rate. Once that happens, people losing jobs in one sector will not mean that they will become perpetually unemployed. From one sector, they can move on to other sectors.”

People Mean Happens Jobs Moving Environment Losing India Rate Employment Handsome Unemployed Macroeconomics

Author:Manmohan Singh

“The environment is rarely put on tape, or if it is, it's so abstract that most people never realize it. They just don't know what it means. But if you can show it to them, then that's what becomes the main instrument.”

People Ifs Knows Mean Shows Realizing Environment Instruments Abstract Tape

Author:Ry Cooder

“The management of creativity is more intimate. By that I mean that it deals with an individual's personal, psychological landscape. It deals with the way you create relationships. It deals with creating an atmosphere and environment that support the creative process. As a result, it is a management skill set that is inherently psychological and that encourages desired outcomes rather than demands those outcomes.”

“Managing the creative process means selecting the best people and then letting them do their work. That means nurturing. It also means, from time to time, creating drama - even uncertainty - so that the creative environment has an edge to it, a charge, and does not run out of steam.”

People Mean Doe Running Process Creative Environment Drama Creating Edges Uncertainty Creative Process Nurturing Steam

Author:John Kao

“When Colin Powell showed up as Secretary of State in 2001, most State Department employees still didn't even have computers on their desks. When I got there they were not mostly permitted to have handheld devices. I mean, so you're thinking how do we operate in this new environment dominated by technology, globalizing forces? We have to change, and I can't expect people to change if I don't try to model it and lead it.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“The people who are out to destroy the environment think they're going to get away with it. Are they breathing different air than we're breathing? Are they eating different food? I mean, where do they think they're going to go? What do they think is going to be better than what they have destroyed? I just don't get it.”

People Thinking Mean Different Environment Air Eating Destroyed Breathing Get Away

Author:Bette Midler

“Just because you've been successful and just because you've disrupted an environment, doesn't mean you're a role model or that you actually have anything to teach anybody. There's an awful lot of luck and accident in the world, and maybe you were just on the receiving end of that.”

World Mean Ends Roles Teach Successful Environment Models Luck Accidents Awful Role Models Receiving

Author:Michael Lewis

“The younger you are, the more likely you are to have grown up in a (mostly) lead-free environment, and that means you're less likely to have committed a felony or gotten sent to prison.”

Mean Environment Prison Committed Felony

Author:Kevin Drum

“It's a very collaborative environment [making The Office]. We always do takes of how it's scripted, but then we also mix it up a lot too. And it's kind of a crapshoot, you never know which one... I mean a lot of time improvisation doesn't go anywhere and it's not good at all but, so what was written is often times better.”

Knows Kind Mean Environment Written Office Improvisation

Author:Ed Helms

“I started with "Pickman's Model," because it was about Boston. I mean, what I loved about [H. P. Lovecraft], at first is his sense of scholarship of an area, setting an environment, enlivening it. I think that's one of the secrets of writing.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Mean Secret Environment Models Areas Setting Settings Boston Scholarship Lovecraft

Author:Paul Laffoley

“Pressure's healthy. It becomes stressful when you can't handle that. I mean, if you don't want to become pressurized in this environment, then don't be a chef.”

Ifs Want Mean Environment Healthy Pressure Handle Chef Stressful

Author:Gordon Ramsay

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