Quotes About Environment

If you think of the world without people it's about the most perfect thing there ever is. It's all balanced and shit. But then come the people, and they fuck it up.

I firmly believe that everyone deserves to live within walking distance of either beauty or convenience, if not both. (48)

there is a danger inherent in the teaching...that man is nothing but the result of biological, psychological and sociological conditions, or the product of heredity and environment. This neurotic fatalism is fostered and strengthened by a psychotherapy which denies that man is free. It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.

human being is completely and unavoidably influenced by his surroundings.

man is no more than a product of many conditional and environmental factors—be they of a biological, psychological or sociological nature?

M]an is by no means merely a product of heredity and environment. There is a third element: decision. Man ultimately decides for himself! And, in the end, education must be education toward the ability to decide.

Why wouldn't he recognize that Washington was an operating environment that didn't reward loyalty and courage? It rewarded treachery and self-interest. Adapt or die.

Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.

We have destroyed something by our presence, a world perhaps.

the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water

Egli la contemplò; tremò; ebbe caldo; ebbe freddo; anelò di lanciarsi tra il soffio ardente dell'estate; di premere il piede su delle ghiande; di allacciare con le braccia tronchi di faggi e di querce.

We have destroyed something by our presence," said Bernard, "a world perhaps.

I have found my mate,' she murmured. 'It is the moor. I am nature's bride.

A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.

Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.

A környezetváltozás olyan hagyományos téveszme, melybe tönkrement szerelemek és tüdÅ'k vetik bizalmukat.

Raising a cold eye from book to clock in the positively sultry Beardsley College library, among bulky young women caught and petrified in the overflow of human knowledge.

Un cambio de ambiente es la falacia tradicional sobre la cual descansan los amores -y los pulmones- condenados.

Few products and services are used in a vacuum. In most cases, other products and services affect their value

Let the corporations do as they please -- pillage the environment, falsify their advertising, rig the securities markets -- and it is none of the federal government's business to interfere with the will of heaven.

Primary prevention requires a shift from a focus on programs to a focus on more far-reaching prevention initiatives and from a focus on the individual to a focus on the environment.

Blum notes that, in reality, there are four major determinants of health: environment, heredity, lifestyle, and health care services. Of these four, Blum found that "by far the most potent and omnipresent set of forces is the one labeled 'environmental, ' while behavior and lifestyle are the second most powerful force" (p. 43).

That's one thing I really hate about smokers: the world is their ashtray.

A residual haunting is a haunting that repeats itself over and over again, like a recording that is frozen in time. It is a mere imprint of an event on the environment, in which the spirit who haunts had once existed.