Top 1200 New Environment Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The commercial media are to the mental environment what factories are to the physical environment

We seem to forget that everything that is good for the environment is a job. Solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind turbines don't manufacture themselves. Houses don't retrofit themselves and put in their own new boilers and furnaces and better-fitting windows and doors. Advanced biofuel crops don't plant themselves. Community gardens don't tend themselves. Farmers' markets don't run themselves. Every single thing that is good for the environment is actually a job, a contract, or an entrepreneurial opportunity.

I find myself moved by man in his new violent environment. I want to paint this explicitly and beautifully.

Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil.

The truth is that we can overhaul our surroundings, renovate our environment, talk a new game, join a new club, far more easily than we can change the way we respond emotionally. It is easier to change behavior than feelings about that behavior.

There are two types of people: One strives to control his environment, the other strives not to let his environment control him. I like to control my environment, because I feel if I have my physical space in order, then I'm free to dream.

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

The Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an age-old dilemma that pits the demands of security against the desire for freedom.

That's something you can't get off the wires in New York is people providing intelligent coverage of what your theater company in Podunk is up to. Many of the people who write what we call amateur criticism are professionals in anything other than name and receiving a paycheck. Very often, they know more than the professional critic who might be writing for their local newspaper. So, really, I'm all for it. It's changing the playing field, it's shaking things up, it's going to make the critical environment a healthier environment.

I don't mean to imply that we are in imminent danger of being wiped off the face of the earth - at least, not on account of global warming. But climate change does confront us with profound new realities. We face these new realities as a nation, as members of the world community, as consumers, as producers, and as investors. And unless we do a better job of adjusting to these new realities, we will pay a heavy price. We may not suffer the fate of the dinosaurs. But there will be a toll on our environment and on our economy, and the toll will rise higher with each new generation.

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

Separation, I think, in an early-stage company or a startup environment is not a good thing. You need to basically live and breathe the entire environment.

[There are] seven gifts God gives you when you commit your life to Christ: a new relationship, a new citizenship, a new family, a new purpose, a new power, a new destiny, and a new journey.

I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.

Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies.

I do things on TV that are kitchen-sink realism, which is great, but I like the challenge of a completely new language and dramatic environment.

You can rise above it. This country gives you opportunity if you want to take it, so don't blame your environment. I look down on people who use their environment as a crutch.

Every way of life produces its own environment and in turn is influenced by that environment.

I like being in a collaborative and respectful environment. When you're in an environment spearheaded by ego and fear, it's the death of creativity.

The revolt against one's environment is usually 'shame' of one's environment.

Our colonizers have taught us to believe that our health has improved because of Western medicine, Western foods, and Western technology. In a society that values progress, our colonizers taught us that conditions in the world are perpetually improving, that with each new technological advancement, each new discovery, each new way to utilize resources, each new way to alter the environment, that the world is getting better, that it is advancing. These are all lies.

One of the reasons why I chose to live in New York was that there is this sense of your environment constantly changing.

Once a company has adapted to a new environment, it is no longer the organization it used to be; it has evolved. That is the essence of learning.

English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings, and we borrow new words from any language that intrudes into our intellectual environment.

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

Just like the rest of the world, I became a product of my environment, and this environment was gang culture.

You know, the environment is fragmenting, and the environment is, in many places, absolutely hideous!

Flint is a very tough place to live. The environment is definitely a different type of environment than anywhere else in the country, I feel like.

Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself.

America should be cooling down the tensions in the internet, making it a more trusted environment, making it a more secure environment, making it a more reliable environment, because that's the foundation of our economy and our future.

Organizations need to undergo fundamental changes, both in order to adapt to the new business environment and to become ecologically sustainable.

The cost of acquiring new customers and maintaining those relationships in an online environment versus bricks and mortar is significant.

I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment.

There should be music in the child's environment, just as there does exist in the child's environment spoken speech. In the social environment the child should be considered and music should be provided.

Man is suddenly becoming aware that by an ill-considered exploitation of nature he risks destroying it and becoming in his turn the victim of this degradation. Not only is the material environment becoming a permanent menace - pollution and refuse, new illness and absolute destructive capacity - but the human framework is no longer under man's control, thus creating an environment for tomorrow which may well be intolerable. This is a wide-ranging social problem which concerns the entire human family.

Once we accept violence as an adaptation, it makes sense that its expression is calibrated to the environment. The same individual will behave differently if he comes of age in Detroit, Mich., versus Windsor, Ontario; in New York in the 1980s versus New York now; in a culture of honor versus a culture of dignity.

If I think the environment in the world needs to be cleaned up, let me clean up my own environment. Let me clean up the environment in my head - let me work with that pollution and that ecosystem.

The thing that the Nigerian government will do is to secure the environment. If the environment is not secured, then unfortunately, the investments wouldn't be coming in.

Sustainability is an economic state where the demands placed upon the environment by people and commerce can be met without reducing the capacity of the environment to provide for future generations. It can also be expressed in the simple terms of an economic golden rule for the restorative economy: Leave the world better than you found it, take no more than you need, try not to harm life or the environment, make amends if you do.

I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.

There are two types of people: One strives to control his environment, the other strives not to let his environment control him. I like to control my environment.

There is so much uncertainty out there, and the government in Washington doesn't seem to get it. What's needed is a new business environment.

As new technologies upend the economics of climate change, the politics surrounding the environment are changing, too.

Whenever you get into a new environment, it's scary. You don't know the people; you're not really comfortable with the machine that the show is.

We must assimilate the thought that life between death and a new birth is so constituted that everything we do awakens an echo in the environment.

When I was leaving WWE, I'd started becoming interested in applying parkour to the matches and using the ring environment in fun, new ways.

The catalyst that converts any physical location - any environment if you will - into a place, is the process of experiencing deeply. A place is a piece of the whole environment that has been claimed by feelings. Viewed simply as a life-support system, the earth is an environment. Viewed as a resource that sustains our humanity, the earth is a collection of places.

He is a thermostat leader, not a thermometer...He does not react to the environment he's in. He changes every environment he's in.

It was such a culture shock for me, being plucked from this diverse neighborhood in London into Jamaica Queens. I'm in this new environment, and I had an English accent.

A good rule of thumb is that any environment that consistently leaves you feeling bad about who you are is the wrong environment.

I am a big lover of the environment. I actually come from Maine, which is pretty much all environment.

I think all the obituaries for newspapers we're hearing are premature. Many papers are belatedly but successfully adapting to the new news environment. I

New York is actually a pretty safe place, and I think invoking the Bronx as a metaphor for the nightmarish urban environment is no longer spot on.

I've always been quiet, for the most part, especially any time I've come into a new environment.

The normal routine is always the same thing whether it's on a new movie or a new job - there's always a process of getting to know one another. I think part of what makes movies special is that it is a relatively intimate environment and it's pretty short-lived - you get to know one another very quickly.

The environment of San Francisco has so much history to it that I really appreciate. Musically, socially, and culturally. There's this new culture of people; it's a crazy place to be.

All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we have added 1300 cities with populations over 100,000. When the environment is forced to file Chapter 11, the ecology collapses. Nations recover from war but not from a failed eco-system. The status of our environment is more threatening than all wars. It is forever.

Utopia is a meta-utopia: the environment in which Utopian experiments may be tried out; the environment in which people are free to do their own thing; the environment which must, to a great extent, be realized first if more particular Utopian visions are to be realized stably.