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Quotes About Environment

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.
~ John D. MacDonald
Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment.
~ R. D. Laing
The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.
~ Claude Bernard
The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.
~ Vandana Shiva
Without geography you're nowhere.
~ Jimmy Buffett
Build your architecture from what is beneath your feet.
~ Hassan Fathy
Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled.
~ Christine Lagarde
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
~ John Muir
I don't know whether I prefer Astroturf to grass. I never smoked Astroturf.
~ Joe Namath
The human race will be the cancer of the planet.
~ Julian Huxley
I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.
~ Barry Lopez
The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior.
~ Darryl Cherney
I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.
~ Christopher Lee
I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine.
~ Tony Hsieh
What I stand for is what I stand on.
~ Wendell Berry
Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies.
~ Wallace Stegner
One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.
~ Alec Wilkinson
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
~ Florence Nightingale
Culture drives great results.
~ Jack Welch
Is an animal less or more intelligent because it lives without clothes, central heating, and well, atom bombs ?
~ Jim Nollman
Dance is such a stressful environment.
~ Mia Wasikowska