Environment Quotes - Page 34

• Humankind has no option but to protect and live in harmony with its natural environment. However, it would be regrettable if in putting an end to revolutionary extremism, we should then come to environmental extremism. We should not forget that all extremes are the same.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Environmental, Would Be, Revolutionary

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• In the increasingly mechanized, automated, cybernated environment of the modern world a cold, bodiless world of wheels, smooth plastic surfaces, tubes, pushbuttons, transistors, computers, jet propulsion, rockets to the moon, atomic energy man's need for affirmation of his biology has become that much more intense.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Moon, Men, Energy

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• As part of our ongoing series of reports on the environment, 'America Goes Green,' we take on the question that can make otherwise competent adults quake with fear. We've all been there. You come to the end of the checkout line and then comes that question: 'Paper or plastic?' For that one brief moment, we grocery buyers are made to feel like the fate of the planet hinges on our decision.

  Brian Williams

  Fate, America, Decision

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• The most successful prostitutes are invisible, because the sign of a prostitute's success is her absolute blending with the environment. She's so shrewd, she never becomes visible. She never gets in trouble. She has command of her life, and her clients.

  Camille Paglia

  Successful, Clients, Trouble

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• Do not wait for a change of environment before you act. Cause a change of environment through action. You can act upon your present environment so as to cause yourself to be transferred to a better environment.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Waiting, Causes, Action

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• A manager's ability to turn meetings into a thinking environment is probably an organization's greatest asset.

  Nancy Kline

  Thinking, Organization, Assets

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• It's competition. It's putting them in environments, in situations where I want to see who the fighters are and who they guys are that are going to compete. And there will be rewards at the end of the day. Gatorade if you win. You drink out of a water hose if you lose and do some running. And that includes the coaching staff.

  Urban Meyer

  Running, Winning, Water

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• Most people would rather not hear about the environment because it's scary, so my goal was to write something that was readable so that people would learn a lot and not be so depressed that they would throw the book away.

  Alan Weisman

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: www.today.com

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• Coming from the South and growing up in L.A. where it was so segregated - worse than the South in many ways - all the people in my neighborhood were from the South. So you had that Southern cultured environment. The church was very important. And there were these folk ways that were there. I was always fascinated by these Southern stories, people would share these mystified experiences of the South. I wanted to talk about folklore.

  Charles Burnett

  Growing Up, People, Southern

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Watching 40 mile chunks of ice break off of Antarctica will change your life forever, but realizing that driving a car, or flying a plane, or having a nice steak, or drinking from a plastic bottle all contributed to the destruction of the environment - it's a bit complex, but music needs to pave the way for getting people to think about this kind of complexity. I'm just doing my share.

  DJ Spooky

  Nice, Drinking, Thinking

  "DJ Spooky’s Icy Philharmonic". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. October 17, 2011.

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• I'm extremely worried. I'm worried about the survival of our species, worried about what we're doing, worried about being Americans, worried about depletion of resources. On the other hand, we are trying. We are trying to understand our impact on the environment.

  T.C. Boyle

  Impact, Hands, Survival

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We owe to every businessperson and worker in America the best environment in the world to create a job. We owe that to American business. 35 percent corporate tax rate is the second highest in the world. We need to lower it so they don’t leave.

  Lindsey Graham

  Jobs, Class, America

  Lindsey Graham at GOP primary debate at the University of Colorado Boulder in Boulder, Colorado, time.com. October 28, 2015.

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• If people thought about food more like how we think about the environment, a lot of people would be eating differently and the whole system would look a lot different.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Thinking, People, Different

  "Extremely Dead and Incredibly Gross". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. November 25, 2009.

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• We know that if you have $20 million, it's better to buy a van Gough print than it is buy an executive jet, from the point of view of the environment. But when you start getting down, it's like the recycling question: What are things we can really afford to do, and how much pleasure do we get out of them? We haven't even started to have that discussion, and it's getting awfully late.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Views, Recycling, Pleasure

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• Historically, things were moving in a pretty good direction until the Reagan presidency. And then it all got reversed. The Mexico City policy was instituted - the idea of wrecking the environment for this generation's profit and forgetting about our gets got firmly embedded. I'm sad to say the Clinton administration didn't turn it around and the Bush administration, well, I think they're the worst administration we've ever had, and I used to be a Republican.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Moving, Thinking, Cities

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• In a male-dominated environment, things are very macho, and you can't show weakness.

  Hyder Akbar

  Weakness, Males, Shows

  "A Tale of Two Countries". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. December 2005.

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• To imagine secret societies and conspiracy is a way not to react to the social and political life. Because you say, "We don't know who they are. We cannot react without reasoning." So it is a way to keep people far from the political environment.

  Umberto Eco

  People, Political, Secret

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.

  J. K. Rowling

  Class, Hypocrisy, Competition

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The race is now on between the technoscientific and scientific forces that are destroying the living environment and those that can be harnessed to save it. . . . If the race is won, humanity can emerge in far better condition than when it entered, and with most of the diversity of life still intact.

  Edward'O

  Race, Diversity, Humanity

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• For small businesses to thrive, they require an environment that is conducive for growth.

  Nydia Velazquez

  Growth, Small Business, Thrive

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• Taylor Swift is great for a night out as it involves a lot of tequila. With her it’s all about good friends and celebrating friendship, it’s such a positive environment to be a part of. She’s great.

  Nick Jonas

  Good Friend, Night, Tequila

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• When our souls are healthy, we change the environment; the environment doesn't change us.

  Carl Lentz

  Healthy, Soul

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• Everything around you, especially your home environment, mirrors your inner self. So by changing your home, you also change the possibilities in your own life. Removing the obstacles to the harmonious flow of energy in your living environment creates more harmony in your life and the space for wonderful new opportunities to come to you.

  Karen Kingston

  Home, Opportunity, Mirrors

  Karen Kingston (2016). “Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui (Revised and Updated): Free Yourself from Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Clutter Forever”, p.14, Harmony

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• I started with California, and I did not like it. I flew over to Seattle, and I did not like it much. I felt like Iowa is the place - I like the people and the environment.

  Li Ang

  Iowa, California, People

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• There is a clear connection between developing the skills and talents of young people, and our economic success as a province. Initiatives like the Make Your Pitch competition and the Ontario Social Impact Voucher help us nurture the next generation of business leaders. We will continue creating an inviting environment for our next generation of entrepreneurs, ensuring they develop the right skills needed to succeed in a globally competitive economy and build the future of Ontario.

  Brad Duguid

  Skills, Creating, Impact

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