Famous Quotes & Sayings

The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.

Mike Love

One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.'

Philip Zimbardo

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.

Seinabo Sey

By the second time I sang by myself in school, I just realized that I was more in control of my environment than I had ever been before.

Trent Reznor

Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is based on.

Tommy Caldwell

El Capitan is the most chapping environment in the world: windy, cold, super dry. I wake up twice a night and reapply lotion to my hands. We sand our fingertips to keep them smooth.

Alex Steffen

The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

On our crowded planet there are no longer any internal affairs!

Ali Smith

It's about the connecting force from form to form. It's the toe bone connecting to the shoulder bone. It's the bacterial kick of life force, something growing out of nothing, forming itself out of something else. Form never stops. And form is always environmental.

Brett Hull

Nobody should live in an environment that's not healthy.

Noam Chomsky

Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard Nixon, who would be something of a dangerous radical in today's political scene.

This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades.

Ted Turner

I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.

Alison Gopnik

One of the things I say is from an evolutionary point of view: probably the ideal rich environment for a baby includes more mud, livestock, and relatives than most of us could tolerate nowadays.

Alexandra Stoddard

I love people and care about them, and I felt I had a gift to cheer people up. If I could get into their homes and make their environment more attractive, they'll be happier, and it would be very rewarding for me.

Allan Savory

I was so fanatical about trying to save wildlife... I was unable to accept that we couldn't solve this problem of thousands of years, of wherever humans operated, the environment deteriorated.

Environmental scientists in Canada said it was impossible for me to get to the Pole in 2004... I said 'no,' it's still OK, and I can still get there, and I did.

Tristram Stuart

It is all very well for 2% of the population to live in a monastic state of meatlessness while everyone else gorges their way towards environmental meltdown or the nearest heart clinic. Vegetarianism is good for the willing minority, but not much use as a campaign tool.

We would hope for an improved security environment because otherwise many people who may wish to participate would be deterred.

There is just so much possibility for tragedy. You never want an officer to pull a gun in an environment like a residence hall.

There is a supportive environment for prices. Nationwide expects the market to remain fairly stable in the next year.

Chris Stewart

There is no better example of the overreach of government than in environmental law.

The project will be sensitive to maintain the natural environment of the creek. It will also significantly improve traffic in the area.

Marlee Matlin

The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.

Dick Cheney

Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.

Because we're not in harmony with the environment, we're destroying the environment that supports us.

G. Gordon Liddy

Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.

I could have probably been just as successful by not going to college, but it was the most intellectually stimulating environment that I was ever in.

Ed Rendell

There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.

Jason Katims

The environment in a writer's room, I've really come to feel, should be some form of democracy.

Larry Foote

Trash-talking was just part of our environment growing up. It's a new day in sports now and a lot of people like to do a lot of trash-talking.

Today's investment environment presents excellent opportunities for investors with long-term buy-and-hold strategies.

Holly Robinson Peete

I'm not a doctor or scientist. I'm just a mom. But I do think there's a genetic predisposition, and there are environmental triggers. I feel like that combination, in my child's case, is what resulted in autism.