Our Environment Quotes - Page 6

• When you go back to your environment and you deal with employees... do you inspire people or do you make them feel fear? Do you make them feel confident or incompetent? I think that distinction really marks the leader.

  Liz Murray

  Leadership, Respect, Thinking

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• We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us.

  Mary Daly

  Science, Rivers, Environmental

  Mary Daly (1973). “Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine.

  Lillian Russell

  Nature, Science, Blow

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• Inside each of us is a unique person resulting from millennia of environment and heredity combined in a way that could never happen again and could never have happened before. We aren't blank slates, but we are also communal creatures who are born before our brains are fully developed, so we're very sensitive to our environment. The question is: How to find the support and the circumstances that allow you to express what's inside you?

  Gloria Steinem

  Unique, Support, Brain

  "Celebrating Gloria Steinem’s 80th Birthday" by Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2014.

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• The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies.

  Al Gore

  Time, War, Struggle

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.275, Routledge

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• How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Wall, Men, Wind

  "Aviation, Geography, and Race". Reader's Digest, pp. 64-67, November 1939.

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• We must conserve our environment and pass it on to our children in as good or better condition than it was passed to us.

  Mark Kennedy

  Children, Environmental, Conditions

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• You must watch the pictures that you paint with your imagination. Your environment and the conditions of your life at any given time are the direct result of your own inner expectations. If you imagine dire circumstances, ill health or desperate loneliness, these will be 'automatically' materialized, for these thoughts themselves bring about the conditions that will give them a reality in physical terms. If you would have good health then you must imagine this as vividly as you fearfully imagine ill health.

  Seth

  Loneliness, Health, Reality

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• Usually the way I think someone is radicalized is through a personal experience. The thing about environmental activism is that we are all having a personal experience with our environment, whether we open our eyes or not.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Eye, Thinking, Environmental

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Our social and economic statistics are telling us what we already know in our hearts: we have created a world that works for only a few. To change this, we must learn to act toward each other and our environment in profoundly different ways.

  Vaclav Havel

  Heart, Different, World

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• I don't like being in public with headphones on. I don't know how people can do it. It seems like you're so cut off from your environment. I feel like I'd get hit by a car.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Cutting, People, Car

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I would like the [film] industry to be more aware of what they're doing to influence people for good and for bad. There's no doubt that we're affected by our environment

  Dorothy Arzner

  People, Doubt, Environment

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• Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!

  Jim Elliot

  Soul, Growth, Rooms

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• The Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum can summarize: "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."

  Ursula Goodenough

  Environmental, Understanding Love, End Of The World

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• Let us all improve our personal behavior and redouble our efforts to protect our loved ones and our environment from the onslaught of pornography.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Effort, Environment, Loved Ones

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• It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.

  John Irving

  Winning, Growth, Doe

  John Irving (2012). “A Prayer For Owen Meany”, p.69, Random House

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• Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.

  Wallace Stegner

  Country, People, Needs

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• When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers and users, and are always changing our environment.

  Nalo Hopkinson

  People, Fiction, Literature

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• The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations, can be phrased in more biological terms as follows: If our genes are inherited, and our environment is a train of physical events set in motion before we were born, how can there be a truly independent agent within the brain? The agent itself is created by the interaction of the genes and the environment. It would appear that our freedom is only a self delusion.

  E. O. Wilson

  Independent, Self, Brain

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• Sustainability at Nike means being laser-focused on evolving our business model to deliver profitable growth while leveraging the efficiencies of lean manufacturing, minimizing our environmental impact and using the tools available to us to bring about positive change across our entire supply chain.

  Mark Parker

  Nike, Mean, Impact

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• I also learned that you are affected by your environment, even if you try not to be. Color, light that is, matters because you want to do justice to it and also you get excited by it.

  Peter Doig

  Light, Color, Justice

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• I'm not sure what solutions we'll find to deal with all our environmental problems, but I'm sure of this: They will be provided by industry; they will be products of technology. Where else can they come from?

  George M. Keller

  Technology, Environmental, Problem

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• The Truly Healthy environment is not merely safe but stimulating.

  William H. Stewart

  Health, Science, Safe Environment

  Environmental Science and Technology, February 1968.

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• We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Science, Rivers, Environmental

  Attributed in A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations, ed. Barbara K. Rodes and Rice Odell (1992)

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• As long as you don't compliment yourself, your environments and your job, you will always be miserable. Complaints bring misery, compliments brings strength.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Spiritual, Jobs, Long

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