Environment Quotes - Page 26

The future will either be green or not at all.

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.

If the positive innovations connect exponentially before the massive breakdowns reinforce one another, the system can re-pattern itself to a higher order of consciousness and freedom without the predicted economic, environmental, and social collapse...If the system could go either way, a slight intervention to assist the convergence of the positive can tip the scales of evolution in favor of the enhancement of life on Earth.

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to.

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.

In America, I don't know how much longer the environment is going to exist. I sort of strongly believe that we're in danger.

Disease may be defined as "A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment."

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

A brain can improve till it fits its environment.

The more artificial a human environment becomes, the more the word ‘natural’ becomes a term of value.

My aim is to create a happy environment where the players are working hard, but enjoying themselves. You've got to enjoy yourself, and you've got to have a bit of fun as well.

I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.

The problem of numbers can only be dealt with by recognizing that people have a fundamental right to economic security. If you provide them with economic and environmental security, the population will stabilize itself.

And suddenly, I realized the system that I was in did not know what intelligence was, didn't know how to identify smart and not smart. They called me the best, when I knew I wasn't, and they called him the worst, when he was the best. I mean, there could be no more antipodal environment. So I began to question: What is intelligence? Who says? Who says you're smart? Who says you're not smart? And what do they mean by that?

When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.

Just because we can't sell shares in nature doesn't mean it has no value.

There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it.

Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves.

I am a socialist and at the same time clear about a certain number of values ... family values, environmental values, the value of succeeding at school, the value of merit and respect for work. To me these are not incompatible with being of the left.

We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.

...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.

I don't even consider myself an environmentalist anymore. I'm a free-marketer. I go out into the marketplace and I catch the polluters who are cheating the free market.

You show me pollution and I will show you people who are not paying their own way, people who are stealing from the public, people who are getting the public to pay their costs of production. All environmental pollution is a subsidy.