Quotes About Environment

If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom. If you wanted to create a business environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a cubicle. And if you wanted to change things, you might have to tear down both and start over.

The brain appears to be designed to (1) solve problems (2) related to surviving (3) in an unstable outdoor environment, and (4) to do so in nearly constant motion. I call this the brain's performance envelope.

Since I had left, my mother said, the water bill had gone down by 80 percent.

Weather is a physical manifestation of the earth's power.

Take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints.

Since Garrett Hardin's challenging article in "Science" (1968), the expression "the tragedy of the commons" has come to symbolize the degradation of the environment to be expected whenever many individuals use a scarce resource in common.

The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid erosion, pollution, environmental degradation, and resource waste. Any rational food-production system will emphasize the well-being of the soil-air-water biosphere, the creatures which inhabit it, and the human beings who depend upon it.

Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.

All buildings have a psychological as well as a purely visual effect on the landscape.

Who would think that a hurricane would be political?" she pointed out, speaking of Katrina, "until it was?" (Thompson 2012).

The most demanding assumption that TPS makes about the production environment is that it is a stable environment. And it demands stability in three different aspects.

Just as well, as it saved me having to invoke privacy, or bite. Metaphorically speaking. Biting a colleague is probably grounds for dismissal, even—especially?—in a massively multispecies, massively multicultural work environment.

If you have to constantly alter your natural mental state to survive a situation, doesn't it follow that the situation is toxic?

I can all but hear my Haudenoseunee grandfather's wry comments as he stopped to pick up litter on the roadside.

The Goodlaw gave one of its enormous highly oxygenated sighs.

Earth is an egg, Casey. Eventually, the hatchling either puts its beak through the shell, or it suffocates in its own waste.

the ghosts of glaciers drift among those folds and folds of fir

Genes load the gun, and environment pulls the trigger.

By habit, she looked round the room she sat in. Anything she could do to it had been done; what it could do to her seemed without limit.

People in love, in whom every sense is open, cannot beat off the influence of a place.

I ragazzi apprendono come comportarsi dalle persone con cui vivono. [...]

Look,' Taryn said. 'I'm going to try this one more time. It's like that thing in Star Trek. The Starfleet regulation that says the doctor can relieve the captain of his duties. The writers probably got it from the real-life navy. Anyway, human beings are the captain. The doctor is the trees and the grasses and the marshes, and the beasts of the field and birds of the air. We humans were declared unfit for command.

The strongest argument for gene editing cane toads, house mice, and ship rats is also the simplest: what's the alternative? Rejecting such technologies as unnatural isn't going to bring nature back. The choice is not between what is and what was, but between what is and what will be, which, often enough, is nothing.

We're seeing right now that a mass extinction can be caused by human beings.