Quotes About Environment

To understand how growth, aging and death works, you must understand the radiation environment.

You do design because you feel it inside; you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment.

To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist.

I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.

For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental impact statement, as most biologists in business do right now.

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.

If our designs for private houses are to be correct, we must at the outset take note of the countries and climates in which they are built.

If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product.

You don't filter smokestacks or water. Instead, you put the filter in your head and design the problem out of existence.

I'm always conscious of the context, the history, the specific environment of anything that I design and what it is going to be operating within.

Should not the role of design be to reconnect human beings with their space on their land?

I like to talk about the idea of "design without design," where... we're creating the conditions for the things that we want to see happen rather than trying to force a particular set of outcomes.

Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.

We never could design a building as beautiful as the trees.

The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through the transformation of form, the essence of the surrounding context.

We shape our homes and then our homes shape us.

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context.

If we do not design policies to halt, and then reverse population growth, Nature by default will soon exact a most punishing solution

If you design communities for automobiles, you get more automobiles. If you design them for people, you get walkable, livable communities.

What we remember most about rooms we like is the 'atmosphere.'

Is Coors Field a good park to hit in? Yeah. So are Wrigley Field and Camden Yards. I didn't design Coors Field-I just play there.