Environment Quotes - page 9

An Active mind didn't need distraction in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers. (J.R. Ward)
Anything that helps us know ourselves more deeply, love ourselves more fully, improve our social connections with family and friends, and engage us more completely with the earth, animals, and environment, is a good resource for healing. View quote
Jed Diamond
The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud. View quote
James Surowiecki
It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was a good environment for an aspiring writer, with lots of events and authors appearing. View quote
John Boyne
In spite of my own reservations about Bing's ability to convert Google users, I have to admit that the search engine does offer a genuine alternative to Google-style browsing, a more coherently organized selection of links, and a more advertiser-friendly environment through which to sell space and links. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
The first step toward maintaining autonomy in any programmed environment is to be aware that there's programming going on. It's as simple as understanding the commercials are there to help sell things. And that TV shows are there to sell commercials, and so on. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia. View quote
Yehuda Berg
Everything around you, especially your home environment, mirrors your inner self. So by changing your home, you also change the possibilities in your own life. Removing the obstacles to the harmonious flow of energy in your living environment creates more harmony in your life and the space for wonderful new opportunities to come to you. View quote
Karen Kingston
I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simulated wild environment and, for those who have been tested on, who are disabled, aggressive, etc., their own space to live out their days. View quote
Casey Affleck
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)
Kids today are really so alienated from the source of food. If they are going to nourish themselves properly, if they are going to safeguard this environment we have and the economy that goes with it and world hunger that goes with it, they need to know about food. View quote
Lidia Bastianich
The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's. View quote
Anita Roddick
I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible. View quote
Atom Egoyan
I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment. View quote
Andreas Gursky
Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us. View quote
Daisaku Ikeda
My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things can survive. View quote
Waris Dirie
The most important question we have to deal with, is a combination of population control and the control of our environment - how to utilize the world in as effective a way as we can for the future of mankind. View quote
David Packard
The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse. View quote
Herman E. Daly
We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is actually making us poorer. View quote
Herman E. Daly
Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there. (Neil Jordan)
It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated. View quote
Neil Jordan
Until men learn to celebrate and operate on the feminine aspect of themselves and stop the oppression of women, children, the environment, other species, we don't have a world to live in. It's not a world that anyone chooses to live in. View quote
James Cromwell
If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them. View quote
John Kasich
When you're in a competitive environment, always give out the impression that you don't care. It makes people want you more. If you act desperate, it's over. I think a passive attitude is helpful. It comes naturally because I'm lazy. View quote
Diablo Cody