Quotes About Environment

The first thing to realize is that even small environmental tweaks can make a difference

forming a habit isn't all environmental—it's also mental.

action triggers have unexpected value. Gollwitzer says that when people predecide, they "pass the control of their behavior on to the environment." Gollwitzer says that action triggers "protect goals from tempting distractions, bad habits, or competing goals.

97.5% of the world's water is salinated. Of the 2.5% that's fresh, over 99% is trapped in glaciers and snowfields. In total, only .025% of the water on the globe is actually drinkable by humans and animals.

We are frequently blind to the power of situations.

To change someone's behavior, you've got to change that person's situation.

Tweaking the environment is about making the right behaviors a little bit easier and the wrong behaviors a little bit harder.

In this chapter, we've seen that what looks like a "character problem" is often correctible when you change the environment.

When change works, it tends to follow a pattern. The people who change have clear direction, ample motivation, and a supportive environment.

The fetus inside a mother's womb is subject to psychological impressions of thoughts and feelings generated by the mother, including what she sees and hears. Therefore, it is very important that a pregnant woman should be surrounded by a wholesome environment. She should listen to wholesome and soothing music. Positive thoughts and feelings should be cultivated. Movies connected with cruelty or extreme violence should be avoided.

And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years.

Routing – Enhances the environment for IPv4 unicast routing. VLAN – Supports the CAM table's growth to contain the maximum number of unicast MAC addresses. Very important: This template disables hardware routing.

The future looks like gasoline. . . . crude oil . . . is the future before it has been refined. It is like a dream of the future, really, and like any dream it ends with a rude awakening.

It was not warm and not cold. There was no wind and the sky was very low and grey but it wasn't raining. It was like they'd completely run out of weather.

I wasn't going to get such a nice car - I was going to get a cute little hybrid or something, keep the trees happy - but then my grandfather died, and it was all: retail therapy!

The more we nurture the planet, the better and more natural a life we'll have.

Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.

I don't actually own a car.

I was glad to have the opportunity, but now I am glad to be rid of it. The constant violence, or the impending threat of it, and the toll of seeing so many casualties, over time, has enveloped me in an environment that weighs as heavily as a wool shroud even on pleasant days. To be the tiller at the wheel of man's hatred for man should be a tour of duty, not a career. - Ashley Crandall

Audubon and NWF CEOs would send out during the week fundraising letters protesting the killing of a particular species of animal and then spend the weekend killing ducks or other animals for fun and recreation. For example, former NWF

I seem to be inside a kind of artificial environment. Almost like a... a simulacrum of Reiden Lake.

The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.

But here we may well ask what we are living for - if we are living to give up to the influence of environment, visible or invisible, or if we are living to attain such full control over the powers and talents that are within us, that we can not only control, modify and perfect environment, but also so perfectly control ourselves that we can become all that nature intends that we should become.

The average mind requires a change of environment before he can change his thought. He has to go somewhere or bring into his presence something that will suggest a new line of thinking and feeling. The master mind, however, can change his thought whenever he so desires. A change of scene is not necessary, because such a mind is not controlled from without. A change of scene will not produce a change of thought in the master mind unless he so elects.