Quotes About Environment

Genes are not destiny!

We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve.

Genes are thought to contribute a certain amount to the cause of autism but it's not 100 per cent. It might be about 60 per cent genetic. So there are going to be environmental factors that mediate the impact of autism.

Your genetics is not your destiny.

Everything has to do with geography.

Landscape architecture is basically geodesign; it's designing geography. And yet geodesign is not only done by landscape architects, it's done by some of the world's largest corporations.

Georgia has some really tough allergies.

We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape.

Building one garden in L.A. - it might be a nice gesture - but it won't make a difference. We have to start to change the culture of the community.

Growing up there was always a sense of 'We have so many gifts and we have to use that for the betterment of the planet.'

I really have a deep sense of caring about the air that we breathe and the water that we drink. I want to be able to say that I was trying to protect that. And I also care deeply about children. My children, all children. And I care deeply about giving back.

I know it sounds glamorous, but it was bloody cold growing up in a castle.

In the 1970s, the scare was about global cooling.

We need a greening of globalisation.

I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didn't realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.

Think globally, act locally.

Less land is being converted into agriculture globally in part because farmers are growing more food on less land.

What people don't understand about the Arctic is that this isn't just about those other people, those Eskimos that have nothing to do with us. The Arctic drives the climate of the whole globe.

I think if you go out with too hard a conservation message, then you convince people that it's all doom and gloom and nothing can be done.

In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.

London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.

Being in smoggy Delhi was a gloomy feeling.

There is a growing body of opinion in support of a royal commission. It's not an issue which will go away, because the global environment is changing around us.

The golden era for coal is over.