Environment Quotes

To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.

While other professions are concerned with changing the environment to suit the weakened body, chiropractic is concerned with strengthening the body to suit the environment.

It may be said that the basic characteristic of human behavior in general is that humans personally influence their relations with the environment and through that environment personally change their behavior, subjugating it to their control.

If the environment were a bank, it would have been saved by now

Being in the neighborhood and the poverty stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some of the individuals that did a lot of the wrong things with the right intentions.

A man who doesn't think differently from his time and environment can't grow beyond his time and environment.

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

A well-managed classroom is a task-oriented and predictable environment.

There are forces in nature called Love and Hate. The force of Love causes elements to be attracted to each other and to be built up into some particular form or person, and the force of Hate causes the decomposition of things.

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.

Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?

Music is pretty much in my blood and it's definitely in my environment.

Carefully observe oneself and one's situation, carefully observe others, and carefully observe one's environment. Consider fully, act decisively.

The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.

We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to exterminate. But we are also the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

I've observed that if individuals who prevail in a highly competitive environment have any one thing in common besides success, it is failure—and their ability to overcome it.

We can now destroy or we can cherish-the choice is ours.

If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.

Take care how you place your moccasins upon the Earth, step with care, for the faces of the future generations are looking up from the Earth waiting their turn for life.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

You become what you do. How and what you become depends on environmental influence so you become who you hang around. Raise the standard your peers must meet and you'll raise your expectations of yourself. If your environment is not making you better, change it.

Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today