Iron Quotes - Page 16

So, what's a nudge? A nudge is some small feature of the environment that attracts our attention and alters our behavior.

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.

Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment.

Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.

Do I shout, belittle or swear? No. I have sufficient confidence within myself to control my environment just by my presence, just by working hard and leading from the front.

The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.

All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the noblest of them will, sooner or later, put forth a moral power which shall prostrate cant, and burst asunder the bonds (silken to some but cold iron to others) of feudal prejudice and usages. In the meantime is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race? If so, what is the ground of this limitation?

Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way.

If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves

No institutions in modern society are better equipped to catalyze the necessary transition to a sustainable world than colleges and universities. They have access to the leaders of tomorrow and the leaders of today. What they do matters to the wider public.

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.

Everything in nature is resurrection.

But, did the Divinity [of Christ] suffer? [...] The holy fathers explained this point through the aforementioned clear example of the red-hot iron, it is the analogy equated for the Divine Nature which became united with the human nature. They explained that when the blacksmith strikes the red-hot iron, the hammer is actually striking both the iron and the fire united with it. The iron alone bends (suffers) whilst the fire is untouched though it bends with the iron.

I have become an environmentalist, because it is over the environment that the last of the Indian Wars will be fought.

You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

Its not always you get to hit the iron when it is hot. I believe in hitting it so hard, that it gets hot.

Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

Our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable. Our technical civilization makes up particularly vulnerable. There is talk all over the scientific community about climate change. Many of them [scientists] agree, the end of human life on earth is assured.

Accept that there are things in this world we can never explain and life will be understandable. That is the irony of life. It is also the beauty of it.

To be modern is to destroy nature.

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.

Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!