Quotes About Environment

Trying to separate the contributions of nature and nurture to an attribute is rather like trying to separate the contributions of length and width to the area of a rectangle, which at first glance also seems easy. When you think about it carefully, though, it proves impossible.

The struggle for survival of the gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans in the wild has to be seen within the context of the political, social, and environmental circumstances that surround them, and so those issues are essential to the narrative.

The sweet indifference of man's environment to his problems. Pathetic fallacy or no, I really felt it, an indifference to us that amounted to contempt.

look across the culvert that holds the greenish residue of the Rio Grande

the horrendous gash of its mine-works

To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges.

What is outside is harder to change than what is inside.

I was an exotic bird traversing an earth ravaged by humanity's poverty of spirit. I

Someone once said that the earth produces enough to satisfy needs, but not enough to satisfy greed

Yes, but there was the land. Money and food are eaten and gone, and if there is not sun and rain in proportion, there is again hunger.

The idea is that there are three opportunities to take measures to elicit or change the behavior as desired: by changing what comes before it (the external factors, or environment), by aiming directly at the behavior itself (through teaching), and by imposing consequences (incentives or penalties).

We are all children of the Great Spirit, we all belong to Mother Earth. Our planet is in great trouble and if we keep carrying old grudges and do not work together, we will all die. —CHIEF SEATTLE

A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is not adapted to his environment, not that the environment is wrong.

The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now.

When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

I think artists almost always end up turning to what's around them, what's in their environment or outside their window.

Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.