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“Choose the whole of your environment, things and events, based upon the value, meaning and function they hold. Do not allow obligation or immediacy to bind you to physical things or specific actions.”

Whole Action Values Environment Events Function Cancer Attraction Obligation Our Environment Physical Attraction Immediacy Physical Things

Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

“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

“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

“One is not quite certain that creativeness in the arts, literature, and science functions best in an environment of absolute freedom. Chances are that a relatively mild tyranny stimulates creativeness.”

Art Certain Literature Chance Environment Function Absolutes Tyranny Chances Are Creativeness Absolute Freedom

Author:Eric Hoffer

“I function better in the jungle in Amazonia or Antarctica or Alaska or the Sahara desert. An artificial environment like a studio has never attracted me. I could work in a studio, but I would never really feel at home.”

Feels Home Environment Function Studios Desert Artificial Jungle Alaska Antarctica Sahara Sahara Desert

Author:Werner Herzog

“In front of the world, all of a sudden I'm a great athlete and I'm put into an environment with 25 other women and I'm expected to go to team meals, team functions.”

World Environment Team Fronts Function Athlete Expected Meals Great Athlete

Author:Hope Solo

“We can choose to function at a lower level of awareness and simply exist, caring for our possessions, eating, drinking, sleeping and managing in the world as pawns of the elements, or we can soar to new and higher levels of awareness allowing ourselves to transcend our environment and literally create a world of our own - a world of real magic.”

World Real Sleep Levels Environment Magic Awareness Higher Elements Eating Function Drinking Possession Caring Allowing Soar Our Environment Higher Level Pawns

Author:Wayne Dyer

“It's funny because the most sane women I've ever met are my mom and my grandmothers. I think you have to be incredibly sane and self-aware to function in relatively insane environments.”

Thinking Self Environment Mom Mets Function My Mom Insane Grandmother Sane My Grandmother

Author:Jenny Lawson

“Interpersonal experience shapes the mind as it continues to develop throughout the lifespan... Interactions with the environment, especially relationships with other people, directly shape the development of the brain's structure and function.”

People Mind Brain Environment Development Shapes Function Structure Interaction Relationships With Others Interpersonal Structure And Function

Book:The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are

Source: The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are

“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

“MID-TWENTIES BREAKDOWN: A period of mental collapse occurring in one's twenties, often caused by an inability to function outside of school or structured environments coupled with a realization of one's essential aloneness in the world. Often marks induction into the ritual of pharmaceutical usage.”

World School Environment Periods Essentials Function Mark Twenties Realization Ritual Collapse Inability Breakdown Usage Pharmaceutical

Book:Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

Source: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

“One of the big lessons from behavioral economics is that we make decisions as a function of the environment that we're in.”

Bigs Decision Environment Lessons Economics Function Behavioral Economics

Author:Dan Ariely

“The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into which he enters.”

School Individual Social Environment Influence Function Various Diverse Disposition Social Environment Coordinating

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“The impresario function is about intervening with the company's more administrative management structure. It is about trying to establish a sense of boundaries and budgets and milestones and so forth on a project that does not necessarily lend itself to milestones. It is about translating between the intimate interior environment of the creative work team and the company's need to make money. And finally, it is about positioning the fruits of the creative process in the marketplace and selling them.”

“There are estimates that we daily walked for 10 - 20 kilometers for hundreds of thousands of years. The world's best problem solving machinery grew up under conditions of consistent, strenuous physical activity. It makes sense that when we don't recreate the environments in which the organ was forged, we get a loss of function. And that when we do restore those environments, we get that function back. The effects of aerobic exercise on executive function skills is a powerful empirical example of this idea.”

“Creativity is an innate function in a human being, as we see in tribal peoples, who spent their considerable leisure time making religious artifacts and sacred art. That is what I would call a direct culture, in that everybody in it is directly in touch with all the elements, both of the culture and of the environment.”

Humans Art Culture Religious Human Beings Creativity Environment Elements Direct Function Sacred Leisure Innate Artifacts Leisure Time Sacred Art

Author:Michael Ventura

“Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.”

Men Science Decision Environment Shapes Function Environmental

Book:Only One Earth: The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet: an Unofficial Report Commissioned by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment

Source: Only One Earth: The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet: an Unofficial Report Commissioned by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment

“Creativity does not depend on inherited talent or on environment or upbringing; it is the function of the ego of every human being.”

Humans Doe Human Beings Creativity Environment Talent Depends Ego Function Upbringing

Book:Creativity: The Magic Synthesis

Source: Creativity: The Magic Synthesis

“An agricultural landscape produces food but it also provides water, requires biodiversity to underpin soil function, pollination and other useful services, and also has value to society in terms of aesthetics and recreation”

Values Term Water Nature Environment Produce Function Landscape Soil Aesthetics Recreation Natural Environment Biodiversity Pollination

Author:Tim Benton

“The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.”

Understanding Nature Environment Highest Consequence Function Ecology Natural Environment

Author:Frank Herbert

“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.”

Humans Race Environment Function Environmental Human Race Inability Shortcomings Exponential Growth

Author:Albert Allen Bartlett

“Forests, beyond offering us their plainly utilitarian wealth, have to perform vast physiological functions in the great economy of nature, by contributing predominantly in the empire of vegetation to the liberation of oxygen.”

Wealth Economy Environment Function Forests Liberation Empires Offering Oxygen Contributing Physiological Vegetation Utilitarian

Author:Ferdinand von Mueller