Environment Quotes

Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.

It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president.

I enjoy being recognized whatever environment I'm in.

The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

If you live in a squalid environment, then of course you are going to want to get out of it, you are probably going to want to get into the country, because that's what it does.

We believe that it is very important that we have hopefully averted what would have been the most substantial headwind of all, which is a default for the first time in our history, and that that will contribute to a more positive environment that we hope will allow for greater growth and job creation.

I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.

Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S.

I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment.

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy.

As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.

It's more than just high quality food for the family table; it's growing the food in a way that does not harm the environment. That gives me emotional well-being that is important to me.

Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.

So that we focus not on competing visions for Europe but on what Europe can do to improve economic growth, to give us a cleaner environment, to create more jobs, to make us more secure.

My wife and I came to Canada for the 1994 Commonwealth Games and we really liked the B.C. lifestyle and environment. The following year we applied to become permanent residents. We moved here in 1996 after the Atlanta Olympics.

When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.

When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things.

My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this.

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection.

There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well.

While expanding market access for American industry, financial markets and farmers is critical, I believe it needs to be done responsibly, accounting for the treatment and protection of workers and the environment.

It's important to determine which surroundings work best for you, and then build that environment to suit your needs.

My wife and I now live in the summers in northern Michigan in an environment which is wonderfully conducive to research, and where most of my work in the last 15 years has been done.

I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.