Environment Quotes

It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.
David Suzuki

Time, Another, Making

If living by these sets of morals and principles and wanting to help better my land, better my country, my community, my team, my environment and helping the next person help themselves, if that's considered crazy, then I'm a crazy.
Luke Scott

Crazy, Help, Person

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
E. F. Schumacher

Life, Attitude, Short

A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made.
Sarah Palin

State, Though, Changing

I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.
Peter Gabriel

Music, Different, After

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.
Brian Mulroney

Government, Priorities, Top

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.
James Lovelock

Nature, Leave, Survive

Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.
James Lovelock

Life, Dance, Earth

Yonkers made me strong and made me believe in myself, because so many people would doubt you and not believe. There are people that would believe in you, but the environment was so harsh, nobody wanted you to get out, you know?
Mary J. Blige

Strong, Doubt, Made

Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.
Sean Connery

Life, Question, Background

I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.
Lenny Kravitz

Life, Change, Time

Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set.
Christian Bale

Best, Nothing, Through

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.
Orson Scott Card

God, Stupid, Free

Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.
Natalie Portman

Religion, Mean, Before

I grew up on movie sets, I'm comfortable on sets. A movie set is like a circus. I don't understand why moviemaking has to be such an insane environment.
Jason Reitman

Understand, Why, Movie

It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.
Jesse Jackson

Sad, Real, Dream

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.
Lewis Mumford

Spiritual, Important, Long

I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment.
Raul Julia

Wife, Book, Special

We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.
Freeman Dyson

Change, Bad, Reason

I think when you're put into a completely different situation and environment, you really see who you are. You're not affected by what's around you. You are who you are.
Lauren Conrad

Different, Put, Around

I grew up at the beach and I was always involved in beach clean-ups and caring for my environment.
Lauren Conrad

Caring, Involved, Beach

I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.
Gus Van Sant

Trying, Story, Coming

I think the younger generation, the people poised to dominate the workforce, are more socially conscious. They are more demanding in terms of environment and how that environment contributes to their life.
Helmut Jahn

Life, Generation, Conscious

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.
Hu Shih

Beauty, Great, May

While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse and oppression affects us all.
Carre Otis

Women, While, Language

I fight for the environment because we only have one planet, but I see how the environment affects poverty and how the environment affects women around the world.
Sophia Bush

Women, Fight, Around

But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude.
Andy Serkis

Wonderful, Solitude, Mountains

The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration.
Theresa May

Here, Create, Aim

I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.
Dan Rather

Respect, Today, Mistakes

I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Live, Different, Basic

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