Quotes About Environment

Window is the global object. It may seem a little weird, but the window object acts as your global environment, so the names of any properties or methods from window are resolved even if you don't prepend them with window. In addition, any global variables you define are also put into the window namespace, so you can reference them as window.myvariable.

Planning and forecasting are only accurate when based on a long, stable operating history and a relatively static environment. Startups have neither.

The true measure of effectiveness for the new Environmental Protection Agency will be how fast they put themselves out of business.

Can you honestly say the environment(s) you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting?

The problems of the Ludic Century are complex system problems. Environmental collapse, social inequity, the design of democracy itself—these seemingly intractable challenges are tied to our increasingly integrated and complicated world.

Lorsque tu veux savoir si tu es dans un endroit riche ou pauvre, tu regardes les poubelles. Si tu vois ni ordures ni poubelles, c'est très riche. Si tu vois des poubelles et pas d'ordures, c'est riche. Si tu vois des ordures à côté des poubelles, c'est ni riche ni pauvre: c'est touristique. Si tu vois les ordures sans les poubelles, c'est pauvre. Et si les gens habitent dans les ordures, c'est très très pauvre.

Monsieur Ibrahim: To find out if a country is rich or poor, look at the bins. If there are bins and no rubbish, it's rich. If there's rubbish by the bins, it's neither rich nor poor... it's touristy. And if there's rubbish but no bins, then it's poor.

Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way twice

It is much easier and cheaper to follow a vegan diet than it is to perform due diligence on a diet that includes meat, milk, or eggs.

Our world has definitely not learned from past mistakes. Communities have disappeared by mismanagement and by rampant destructions of flora and fauna. "Short time vision" made us irretrievably step out of nature. (Why step out of nature )

Who is destroying the mountains of eastern Kentucky and West Virginia?...It isn't the coal companies. It's us...You did this. Okay, forget the guilt. How can we change that?

This new environmental determinism (as, for instance, preached by John Dewey and his behaviorist forerunners) is an even more evil invention than Calvin's doctrine concerning predestination. Environment is merely a factor, an influence exercised on the human free will, but not a fatal and coercive power.

It was what Raymond Chandler would have called "a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.

We're made out of the water, the earth, the air of the places that fed our ancestors, quenched their thirst, the basic elements of the places that gave them life. Is it really so strange if we feel the heave and pitch of those places, even centuries later, in the vibrations of our atoms?

StarClan gave each Clan the skills it needs to survive in its own territory. RiverClan cats swim well. ThunderClan is good at stalking prey in the undergrowth. SkyClan cats can leap into trees because there's not much cover in their territory.

I like rain," grumbled Silverhorn. "I like the way it makes the savannah green. But if it doesn't stop soon, I swear grass is going to start growing out of my hide.

The air began to taste warm and furry.

Sandstorm's sweet scent all around him.

weight of water droplets, and

Goosefeather padded to a smooth silver birch and started tearing off strips of the bark with deft claws.

One place suits on person, another place suits another person. For my part, I prefer to live in the country, like Timmy Willie.

No one is doomed by genes to eat badly. Pickiness is governed more by environment than biology.

The true value of food goes beyond price, and once we collectively start to realize this once again, the challenge will be for policy makers to build food environments that encourage people to make better food choices rather than berating them for making bad ones.

The art of feeding, it turns out, is not about pushing 'one more bite' into someone's mouth, however healthy the food. Nor is it about authoritarian demands to abstain from all treats. It is about creating a mealtime environment where those eating are free to develop their own tastes, because all the choices on the table are real, whole food.