Environment Quotes - Page 40

• I was a corporate trouble-shooter for many years, and I know what it is like to walk very carefully into a hostile environment.

  Charles Todd

  Years, Trouble, Shooter

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• There has been a concerted effort to frame caring about climate change and the environment as an alternate religion - one that worships the creation rather than the creator, so to speak.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Caring, Effort, Climate

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One reason that we're so adaptable is that humans are excellent tool users and homebuilders. When our environment doesn't provide us with something that we need, we try to make it ourselves out of whatever is available, whether that's rock or wood or ore or DNA.

  Annalee Newitz

  Rocks, Dna, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Some time ago we discovered the carbon cycle - a long-term set of chemical reactions that govern climates based on how much carbon is free in the atmosphere. At that point, it became clear that humans were affecting our environments far more profoundly than we realized. By releasing so much carbon and greenhouse gas into the environment, we're making long-term changes to every aspect of the natural world.

  Annalee Newitz

  Carbon Cycle, Long, Atmosphere

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The fact is that humans have been shaping the genetics of what they eat for thousands of years. Genetic engineering simply speeds up the process that used to take generations. Preventing people from getting things like golden rice or disease-resistant cassava destroys human life, and does not spare the environment in any way.

  Annalee Newitz

  Engineering, Years, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Humans are a great survivor species but our survival will be pretty grim if all of the plants and animals we depend on die out. That's why any human survival strategy has to include a plan to maintain our environment roughly in the state that it's in now.

  Annalee Newitz

  Animal, Survival, Survivor

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In terms of fiction, there are a number of writers who are thinking about the future of the environment whose work complements mine. Kim Stanley Robinson's novel 2312 is a great example, as is Tobias Buckell's novel Arctic Rising.

  Annalee Newitz

  Thinking, Numbers, Example

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm guessing that musicals didn't make sense anymore because of the changes in the political environment that began in the late Sixties, an era of self-awareness and social revolutions.

  Carmen Ejogo

  Self, Political, Revolution

  Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. August 14, 2012.

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• When I see vegan food sold in single-use plastic containers, I get frustrated knowing that plastic is not really recycled; it is down-cycled to less and less reusable grades, and too much of it eventually ends up in the ocean - where it kills animals. Caring for animals means caring for the environment they live in, and vice versa.

  Karen Dawn

  Ocean, Mean, Caring

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• Growing up in rural Utah had a lot of benefits, but in an environment that prized conformity, fit wasn't one of them. I ended up in my senior year with a 0.9 GPA, which I think you actually have to work pretty hard to get. In the exact same month they kicked me out of school, my girlfriend - still my wife today - told me she was pregnant. So, it was an interesting start to life: working 10 or 12 minimum-wage jobs; getting bored really quickly and quitting; having my in-laws - rightly - in full panic mode and thinking I had some kind of character flaw.

  L. Todd Rose

  Senior, Girlfriend, Jobs

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• And again, the political economy in that particular environment means that, if my attraction ever coheres as a thought at all, it's never going to be verbalized, because that will mess up the education environment, it will mess up everything. You cannot claim to be doing good if you're moving in that direction.

  Anne Elizabeth Moore

  Moving, Mean, Political

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think the house call is one of the ways I get an insight into the ways in which people live and the importance of environment in keeping people healthy.

  Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

  Thinking, People, House

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• Most of my writing friends are working in academia. Most of my business school friends are always talking about bringing companies public, and money, and making money, and lots and lots of money. It's just a different environment.

  Victoria Chang

  Writing, School, Talking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It took me awhile to not be ashamed to be a poet in the business environment, and to be a business person in the poet environment.

  Victoria Chang

  Poet, Ashamed, Persons

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Barry Manilow was very special for me. We've had many collaborations since then and all have been equally rewarding and musical. I've learned so much from him. I like being a student around him; observing him in his environment.

  Dave Koz

  Musical, Special, Collaboration

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• I think the addiction stuff, because I was already sort of outed in my family as a sexual person: as a sexually-adventurous and sexually-conflicted person and sexually-driven person. They already knew that about me. They knew that about me when I was eleven. My parents very consciously tried to provide an environment that would protect me from becoming a drug addict.

  Melissa Febos

  Thinking, Addiction, Parent

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The modern media environment is so overrun with bullshit and static and people trying to sell you stupid crap. It makes you want to bite yourself.

  Brad Listi

  Stupid, Media, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One of my favorite things about the Kung Fu Panda 3 is the look of it. We never go for realism. I think a lot of time when people go for 3D that's the mistake. Because we're never going for full realism - for computer generated live action films like Avatar the goal is realism, to make the audience feel like they are seeing something that is real. Lord of the Rings had character design and environments to make it look real, whereas we aren't going for that, we are going for something that is theatrically, viscerally, and emotionally real.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Real, Mistake, Character

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We have those new environments [during Kung Fu Panda 3] that give a scale to the movie, that are the spirit realm and the panda village. The spirit realm, having no gravity, having this massive space, allowed us to do huge action shots. All that we just couldn't do before. We just couldn't get the scale, we'd have to cheat them. This time we found ourselves more free.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Space, Giving, Kung Fu Panda

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think more than being a woman is the fact that i'm an introvert. In the environment I work in people forget that i'm a woman which is wonderful it just shows what a wonderful environment i work in, no one treats me differently. They don't think that because i'm a woman i'll make decisions differently.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Thinking, People, Decision

  "The Women of “Kung Fu Panda 3”: Girlpower in the World of Animation" by Leslie Combemale, www.indiewire.com. February 1, 2016.

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• My father, Arinze Ejiofor , was a musician and a doctor. Nobody's ever asked me about that combination and what growing up in that environment was like.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Growing Up, Father, Doctors

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.

  Adam McKay

  America, Issues, Hollywood

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Each of us as poets, as decent suffering human beings, has to find a way to run our lives that is compassionate toward one another and toward our environment.

  Sam Hamill

  Running, Suffering, Way

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• I love raising awareness and encouraging people to take action for World Environment Day, because it demonstrates how individual voices can become a global chorus for change.

  Li Bingbing

  Voice, People, World

  "Interview with Li Bingbing on Elephants and Ivory Poaching by Maranda Pleasant". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We would solve a lot of huge problems that are causing massive suffering. Poverty, violence, homophobia, heterosexism, racism, the environment - all these things that are crippling us. We need big, bold, dangerous, crazy ideas to solve these problems. When failure is not an option, innovation and creativity are not options.

  Brené Brown

  Crazy, Creativity, Ideas

  "Brené Brown to Deliver Opening Keynote at EWlive14". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, blog.emergingwomen.com. July 1, 2014.

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