Quotes About Environment

Geography could not be bucked. Their bogs and trees shrouded in a perpetual drizzle, Germans were the spawn of their environment. The gods, who had considerately endowed Rome with a climate ideally suited to the growth of a mighty city, had doomed the inhabitants of the chilly North to a backwardness that was at once torpid and ferocious, dull and intemperate. Landscape, weather, people: Germany was unredeemably savage.

If you want a team of smart, creative people to do extraordinary things, don't put them in a drab, ordinary space.

The architect, like other workers in our endeavor, is facing the inevitability of a change of profession: he [sic] will no longer be a builder of forms alone, but a builder of complete ambiances.

Unitary urbanism's point of departure is the changeableness of our aspirations and our activities. We know that neither eternal truth nor absolute beauty exist and that, for this reason, ideal form does not exist. Form that is in constant modulation and in agreement with the unceasingly changing aspects of our existence, such as we will produce it. The environment in which we live influences our activity, but reciprocally this environment is a product of our creative activity.

For 200 years we've been conquering Nature. Now we're beating it to death.

We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.

In short, California's climate, chaotic under normal conditions, is about to get weirder and wilder. Indeed, it's already happening.

It takes a poet to read a river and a community to make a response.

Water can exist without fish but fish can not exist without water.

We have hot and cold running water where we live . . . Hot in the Summer and Cold in the Winter!

Language preservation is like saving the birds. We don't want birds to go extinct. Imagine Canada without the sound of a loon. It's a classic Canadian sound. Canada would lose part of its soul if loons went extinct. It's the same thing with languages. Native languages, in this country, or in any country, are part of its sonic environment. It's part of our connection with the earth. We must each do our part in any way we can to preserve these languages.

Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.

The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.

If we take all this actions and if it turns out not be true, we have reduced pollution and have better ways to live, the downside is very small. The other way around, and we don't act, and it turns out to be true, then we have betrayed future generations and we don't have the right to do that.

Ya no hay demasiados seres fantásticos en los que creer. Establecemos nuestro hogar en los escasos bosques que nos quedan. Pronto ya no quedarán ni ésos.

the world in silver and copper and iron." Simon crawled to the edge of the cage. "That doesn't make any sense. What are you going to eat? How are you going to breathe without plants to make oxygen?

Man was not designed to eat pills and powders and all the other chemicals they pump you full of. We were meant to live off the land in harmony with it. Not in some safety bubble.

What was it about white men that caused them to plant grass in places where grass couldn't possibly grow without them fiddling with it all the time?

Memorize places," his uncle had told him. "Settle your eyes on a place and learn it. See it under the snow, and when first grass is growing, and as the rain falls on it. Feel it and smell it, walk on it, touch the stones, and it will be with you forever. When you are far away, you can call it back. When you need it, it is there, in your mind.

Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.

Only farmers and summer guests walk on the moss. What they don't know - and it cannot be repeated too often - is that moss is terribly frail. Step on it once and it rises the next time it rains. The second time, it doesn't rise back up. And the third time you step on moss, it dies.

She had picked the spot the day before and carried out a stool low enough to sit on and still have her paintbox and her water cup within reach. Anna didn't use an easel. Easels seemed to her an altogether too assertive aid, too obvious. She liked to work as unobtrusively as possible, the paper spread on a board in her lap, close to her hand.

To alter the way you are being, you must engage with the phenomenon of context. Context is the human environment that determines the limitations of your actions and the scope of the results your actions can produce.

Context The human environment that determines the limitations of any process, and the scope of the results it can produce.