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“The environment does not determine man's culture; it merely sets the outer limits and at the same time offers opportunities.”

Men Doe Culture Opportunity Environment Offers Limits Determine Outer Limits

Book:Man's Rise to Civilization as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State

Source: Man's Rise to Civilization as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State

“The greenhouse crisis is the bill coming due for the Industrial Revolution. It's not an accident. It's the logical outcome of our world view - the idea that we can control the forces of nature, that we can have short-term expedient gains without paying for them, that there are no limits to exploitation of the environment, that we can produce and consume faster than nature's ability to replenish.”

“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

“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

“Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit.”

Men Certain Environment Limits Training Constitution Vary

Book:H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction

Source: H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction

“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

“Children need both latitude of expression and firmly enforced limits on their behaviors, in a blend that results in calm, patientmanagement. The key to success is to tailor the rearing environment to the developmental level of the child--what she or he can handle--and to individual differences among children.”

Needs Children Individual Differences Levels Results Environment Expression Keys Limits Behavior Calm Handle Key To Success Tailors Latitude Developmental Individual Differences

Author:Sandra Scarr

“You can have a strong economy or you can help the environment, but you can't do both at the same time. That's ridiculous. In fact, as a sustainable vision for a healthy economy has to involve changing our energy policy and changing with respect to the natural world. Because we're hitting nature's thresholds, we're hitting nature's limits with respect to water and crop yields and energy use and fossil fuels heating the atmosphere at the same time we're past global peak and running out of that.”

“Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.”

People Life Inspirational Has Beens Done Motivational Past Belief Decision Vision Environment Shapes Limits Conventional Conventional Wisdom Past Decisions

Author:Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

“It is my belief that exciting things happen when a variety of overlapping activities designed for all people-the old and the young, the blue and white collar, the local inhabitant and the visitor, different activities for different occasions-meet in a flexible environment, opening up the possibility of interaction outside the confines of institutional limits. When this takes place, deprived areas welcome dynamic places for those who live, work and visit; places where all can participate, rather than less or more beautiful ghettos.”

“Vary your training, your running partners, and your environment. Only your imagination limits the ways you can spice up your running routine.”

Way Running Imagination Environment Limits Training Partners Routine Our Environment Vary Spices

Book:The Runner's Handbook: The Bestselling Classic Fitness G for begng Intermediate Runners 2nd rev Edition

Source: The Runner's Handbook: The Bestselling Classic Fitness G for begng Intermediate Runners 2nd rev Edition

“An oral society develops both sides of your brain, and the utilization of your brain is more complete than in a linear education module. The written word limits your brain capability by immediately focusing on one area. You don't have any peripheral vision. It immediately divorces you from the environment.”

Sides Brain Vision Environment Written Limits Areas Divorce Capability Both Sides Linear Written Word Utilization Peripheral Vision

Author:Russell Means

“Telecommuting has its advantages and it has its limits. I think we need to find that sweet spot in between where it helps the environment, it helps people, but it doesn't alienate us and it doesn't cause our organizations to fall apart by centrifugal force.”

People Thinking Needs Helping Fall Force Causes Environment Sweet Limits Advantage Organization Spots Falling Apart

Author:Howard Rheingold

“A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us.”

Trying Humans Environment Healthy Limits Accidents Make Sense Passages Passage Of Time

Book:Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral

Source: Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral

“A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes - within the limits of endowment and environment- he has made out of himself. In the concentration camps, for example, in this living laboratory and on this testing ground, we watched and witnessed some of our comrades behave like swine while others behaved like saints. Man has both potentialities within himself; which one is actualized depends on decisions but not on conditions.”

Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition