Quotes about Our Environment

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations. Votes: 4

Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine. Votes: 4

We are losing our environment so rapidly. Votes: 2

Conservation of energy also protects our environment. Votes: 2

We are such a product of our upbringing and environment. Votes: 2

Energy consumption matters both to our environment and our economy. Votes: 2

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment. Votes: 2

We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment. Votes: 2

We must protect our most precious resource, our environment, for future generations. Votes: 2

House passage is good news for the Northwest corner and our environment. Votes: 2

We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas. Votes: 2

We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment. Votes: 2

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment. Votes: 2

I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment. Votes: 2

The Earth is our environment to protect and the garden to tend to. Votes: 2

For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better. Votes: 2

The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets. Votes: 2

Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense. Votes: 2

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. Votes: 2

We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment. Votes: 2

Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves. Votes: 2

Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks. Votes: 2

I can't think of anything more important than the environment we leave to our children and our children's children. Votes: 2

I firmly believe that if your environment works for you and your family, it translates into a better life. Votes: 2

The coal industry is a huge industry when we're talking about polluting the environment, our air and our waterways. Votes: 2

We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment. Votes: 2

We have to show leadership in protecting our environment so that we have a future for our children and grandchildren. Votes: 2

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. Votes: 2

Negative people deplete your energy. Surround yourself with love and nourishment and do not allow the creation of negativity in your environment. Votes: 2

We need to start thinking about the Future of Food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment. Votes: 2

Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature. Votes: 2

When we speak of choice, what we mean is the ability to exercise control over ourselves and our environment. In order to choose, we must first perceive that control is possible. Votes: 2

We do not face a choice between protecting our environment or protecting our economy. We face a choice between protecting our economy by protecting our environment - or allowing environmental havoc to create economic havoc. Votes: 2

The young generation can influence their elders and can make them understand the environmental problems that are faced by us today. The youth can make them see that our environment is deteriorating day by day. Votes: 2

...because there are no local or State boundaries to the problems of our environment, the Federal Government must play an active, positive role. We can and will set standards. We can and will exercise leadership. Votes: 2

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted. Votes: 2

The preservation of biodiversity is not just a job for governments. International and non-governmental organisations, the private sector and each and every individual have a role to play in changing entrenched outlooks and ending destructive patterns of behaviour Votes: 2

Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us. Votes: 2

If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that. Votes: 2

In the 24 hours since this time yesterday, over 200,000 acres of rainforest have been destroyed in our world. Fully 13 million tons of toxic chemicals have been released into our environment. Over 45,000 people have died from starvation, 38,000 of them children. And more than 130 plant and animal species have been driven to extinction by the actions of humans. And all this just since yesterday. Votes: 2

Help save our environment. Votes: 0

Our existence and our environment enclose entities of divinity. Votes: 0

Our existence and our environment enclosed entities of divinity. Votes: 0

Technology is that which separates us from our environment. Votes: 0

The environment as we perceive it is our invention, Votes: 0

Morally speaking, we should be concerned for our whole environment. Votes: 0

There is an order to our environment, a broader order. Votes: 0

We must develop a better sense of responsibilty towards our total environment Votes: 0

I have been fighting climate change and working to improve our environment. Votes: 0

We're all products of our environment. The key is not to fall. Votes: 0

The earth is not just our environment. The earth is our mother. Votes: 0

We are social beings and our brains grow in a social environment. Votes: 0

When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment. Votes: 0

Butterflies may be better indicators of the health of our environment than birds. Votes: 0

I think it's important to watch out for our environment and to be careful. Votes: 0

Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment. Votes: 0

Reclaim our environment from those who would destroy it with their predatory economic behavior. Votes: 0

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment. Votes: 0

When our souls are healthy, we change the environment; the environment doesn't change us. Votes: 0

If we pass on an unsustainable environment to our children we have failed them. Votes: 0

The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time. Votes: 0

We assume that we're masters of our environment, rather than being a part of it. Votes: 0

With today's mass media obsession, it's good to be able to raise awareness about our environment. Votes: 0

We need to teach people that the environment has a direct bearing on our own benefit. Votes: 0

The living conditions of the poor must be improved if we really want to save our environment Votes: 0

While the wider global environment is worrying, we are seeing some positive results in our economic affairs. Votes: 0

We can no more create the perfect environment for our children than we can create perfect children. Votes: 0

Sustainability is treating ourselves and our environment as if we are to live on this earth forever. Votes: 0

Our relationship to the environment matters, our relationship to animals matters, and our relationship to culture matters. Votes: 0

It's about keeping animals in our environment. They can't be on somebody's purse or shoes or something. Votes: 0

It's not a choice between our environment and our economy; it's a choice between prosperity and decline. Votes: 0

If we value ourselves, we value trees; if we treat our environment right, we treat ourselves right. Votes: 0

As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art. Votes: 0

We're not locked in to these conditions that degrade the environment, and jeopardize the future of our children. Votes: 0

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives. Votes: 0

I always had an interest in the environment... to protect our planet... for the ocean to go on... Votes: 0

Here to create an environment of love, live with passion, and make our most exciting dreams come true Votes: 0

We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards. Votes: 0

The more I learn about the human body, our environment, and the universe, the more it increases my faith. Votes: 0

And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life. Votes: 0

work is elevated by our daily environment into something that is appropriately done everywhere and at every conceivable moment. Votes: 0

You do design because you feel it inside; you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment. Votes: 0

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. Votes: 0

It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live. Votes: 0

It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live. Votes: 0

The chemistry from compounds in the environment is orders of magnitude more complex than our best chemists can produce. Votes: 0

... it is clear that our survival and the salvaging of our environment are dependent on more technology, not less. Votes: 0

Historically, absolute IQ scores have risen substantially as we've changed our environment so that more people go to school longer. Votes: 0

It’s in the environment of worship that we learn things that go way beyond what our intellect can grasp Votes: 0

We humans still have a long way to go with learning to live harmoniously with our environment and its wildlife. Votes: 0

We have to appreciate that we are part of nature, we must work with nature; the environment is our lifeline. Votes: 0

By creating an artificial environment, we're not stimulating our immune system enough. Germs are immune-stimulants. They challenge you to be prepared. Votes: 0

The right to have our environment protected for the benefit of present and future generations is our most important human right. Votes: 0

We come from an environment molded from 3 billion years of evolution, and when we change our behavior, there may be problems. Votes: 0

Our schools are filled with this potential energy, and we need to create an environment for that energy to manifest itself. Votes: 0

We're not protecting the environment for the sake of the fishes and the birds. We're protecting it for our own sake... Votes: 0

So, what's a nudge? A nudge is some small feature of the environment that attracts our attention and alters our behavior. Votes: 0

Our next Cold War ought to be with ourselves...After all, who poses the biggest danger to the American environment? We do. Votes: 0

A chance to collaborate with one of my favorite bands in a completely open and supportive creative environment... some our best work. Votes: 0

Water - the ocean - is our most natural environment. We are born naked from the miniature ocean of the mother's womb. Votes: 0

The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced. Votes: 0

The degradation of our environment is undeniably a direct result of our lack of regard, lack of accountability, and lack of responsibility. Votes: 0

I don't know how you can live on the planet and not care about the environment. It's our globe, we share it. Votes: 0

Abortion on demand has, in my judgment, contributed significantly to an environment in our country in which life has become very cheap. Votes: 0

Protecting the environment is really important to everyone's welfare - that of our children, as well as that of the future generations. Votes: 0

Our state of health or disease is really a reflection of the environment we all live in. And the environment we perceive. Votes: 0

Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment. Votes: 0

When the iPhone came out, every CIO in America said, 'You're not bringing that into our corporate environment,' my CIO included. Votes: 0

I think the environment is possibly our most worrying thing at the moment, so I think mountaintops are the place to live. Votes: 0

As a species, we create tools to control our environment. What excites my imagination is wilderness: our materials' ability to escape our control. Votes: 0

'Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security. Votes: 0

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age. Votes: 0

Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities. Votes: 0

Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security. Votes: 0

It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president. Votes: 0

Climate change and energy use are global problems. News Corp is a global company. Our operations affect the environment all over the world. Votes: 0

Parts of our genome simply cannot survive a situation where the environment suffers from the full overload of toxins we currently live in. Votes: 0

No one else can match the environment we're creating for expanding the game experience to everyone. Our path is not linear, but dynamic. Votes: 0

We do not see everything in the environment in the complete, totally resolved, explicit character of the photograph. We, in fact, prioritize our seeing. Votes: 0

Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment Votes: 0

Regulation is necessary to protect our natural environment, keep our food and medicine safe, and ensure fair competition and fair treatment of our workers. Votes: 0

The environment is so fundamental to our continued existence that it must transcend politics and become a central value of all members of society. Votes: 0

There are seeds of happiness planted in every human soul. Our mental attitude and disposition constitute the environment in which these seeds may germinate. Votes: 0

Let us all improve our personal behavior and redouble our efforts to protect our loved ones and our environment from the onslaught of pornography. Votes: 0

Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish. Votes: 0

We can heal ourselves by changing the environment inside our bodies. Potentially harmful invaders, then, will have nowhere to grow and will become harmless. Votes: 0

We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment. Votes: 0

We must conserve our environment and pass it on to our children in as good or better condition than it was passed to us. Votes: 0

If you can't excite people about wildlife, how can you convince them to love, cherish, and protect our wildlife and the environment they live in? Votes: 0

Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach humanity our proper relation to the environment where we must live. Votes: 0

Our environment is too important to neglect and it's time for the federal government to focus on real solutions and live up to their promises. Votes: 0

We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine. Votes: 0

People need to realize that their thoughts are more primary than their genes, because the environment, which is influenced by our thoughts, controls the genes. Votes: 0

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium. Votes: 0

Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment: the monotony undermines our dopamine and attentional systems crucial to our brain plasticity. Votes: 0

I have American in-laws, and I care about the environment. We don't use disposable diapers, which, of course, creates an environmental problem of our own. Votes: 0

Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment. Votes: 0

We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live. Votes: 0

Facts have proved that prosperity at the expense of the environment is only delaying disaster. We cannot passively protect our environment by simply stopping economic development. Votes: 0

Environment grinds us, forces us to adjust, and--consciously or not--kills our most precious possession: that something which enables us to speak with ourselves and with God. Votes: 0

A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made. Votes: 0

I hope that 'Jaws' will have brought sharks into the public interest at a time when we desperately need to reevaluate our care for the environment. Votes: 0

Embracing our environment is a good direction, a very spiritual direction. It's too Aristotelian to separate man from the animals and man; humans from the environment. Votes: 0

Ultimately it is by harnessing the natural economic forces which drive society that the pollution tax offers us an opportunity to exert greater control over our environment. Votes: 0

While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse and oppression affects us all. Votes: 0

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture. Votes: 0

Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic - less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I don't agree. Votes: 0

This is our greatest challenge: learning to live in a crowded and interconnected world that is creating unprecedented pressures on human society and on the physical environment. Votes: 0

We're taught to solely blame our luck-of-the-draw genes for our health issues, rather than our daily habits, dietary choices, and interplay with the environment that surrounds us. Votes: 0

People sometimes feel frustrated about what's going on in our oceans and environment, and 'Whale Wars' shows that ordinary people can take action and make things happen. Votes: 0

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment. Votes: 0

A reduction in meat consumption is the most powerful single act that you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources. Votes: 0

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment. Votes: 0

I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. We must never forget that it is our duty to protect this environment. Votes: 0

We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all. Votes: 0

I believe we have a profound fundamental need for areas of the earth where we stand without our mechanisms that make us immediate masters over our environment. Votes: 0

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment. Votes: 0

I have a plan to protect the environment so that we leave this place in better shape to our children than we were handed it by our parents. Votes: 0

Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends. Votes: 0

Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans' health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends. Votes: 0

Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions . . . by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions. Votes: 0

Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician. Votes: 0

The healing of our relationship with place begins with the preservation of the natural environment. We cannot go to the wild for renewal if no wilderness is left. Votes: 0

No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment. Votes: 0

Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment. Votes: 0

A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common and ordinary. Existential blindness, of sorts. Votes: 0

Our state's beautiful natural environment is part of why we all love and live in New Hampshire. It is also one of our state's most important economic assets. Votes: 0

We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals we disseminate widely in our environment? Votes: 0

We decided long ago that we didn't want Chipotle's success to be tied to the exploitation of animals, farmers, or the environment, but the engagement of our customers. Votes: 0

We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every child is a scientist. Votes: 0

Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill. Votes: 0

An educator should consider that he has failed in his job if he has not succeeded in instilling some trace of a divine dissatisfaction with our miserable social environment. Votes: 0

There are a helluva lot more of us who care about our environment in the world than we realize. We're the majority, and we can do something about that Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the lives of hurting people. Votes: 0

The environment is God's gift to everyone, and in our use of it we have a responsibility towards the poor, towards future generations, and towards humanity as a whole. Votes: 0

We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets. Votes: 0

Let's clean up our environment. Let's clean up our bodies, but most importantly, let's not permit our babies of the future to be polluted before they are even born. Votes: 0

Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life. Votes: 0

The outer world, with all its phenomena, is filled with divine splendour, but we must have experienced the divine within ourselves, before we can discover it in our environment Votes: 0

Web applications will become more and more ubiquitous throughout our human environment, with walls, automobile dashboards, refrigerator doors all serving as displays giving us a window onto the Web. Votes: 0

Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment. Votes: 0

I gave (my drivers) three things: a sense of optimism, a creative environment, and the ultimate motivator-competition. By competing with each other in-house, we wound up beating our rivals. Votes: 0

For the good of our environment, the good of the economy, and the good of the Nation, I strongly urge support of the upper Mississippi locks and dams project. Votes: 0

I recognize the need for technology that enriches life while preserving our natural environment. My goal is to stimulate productivity, but use technology to redeem, not to destroy our environment. Votes: 0

In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around. Votes: 0

Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment. Votes: 0

The peoples of the Andes believe in the concept of 'living well' instead of wanting to 'live better' by consuming more, regardless of the cost to our neighbors and our environment. Votes: 0

We need to recognise that slowing population growth is one of the most cost-effective and reliable ways of easing pressure on our environment and securing a sustainable future for us all Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

The difference between a childhood and a boyhood must be this: our childhood is what we alone have had; our boyhood is what any boy in our environment would have had. Votes: 0

Besides taking jobs from American workers, illegal immigration creates huge economic burdens on our health care system, our education system, our criminal justice system, our environment, our infrastructure and our public safety. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

No one is an outside observer of nature,We're defined by our environment and our interaction with that environment -- by our ecology. And that ecology is necessarily relative, historical and empirical. Votes: 0

This fight against drilling in the Arctic Refuge is a fight about our principles. Its about standing up for our environment, our families and our future, and I wont give up this fight. Votes: 0

We all have an interest, and a duty to future generations, to ensure that the benefits of mobility that we now take for granted, do not place an intolerable burden on our environment Votes: 0

We are all unconsciously in search of love. Whenever we feel its presence in our environment, we can't help but be drawn to it. There is no more compelling energy in the world. Votes: 0

A person who respects others is respected by others in return. Those who treat others with compassion and concern are protected and supported by others. Our environment is essentially a reflection of ourselves Votes: 0

In threatening times like these, what good is a peace that demands a controlled environment? We need a peace of heart and mind to see us through the storm when our environment goes berserk." Votes: 0

Genomic science, as the newest frontier in scholarly research, is throwing open the door to a revolutionary way of approaching our health, the health and welfare of animals, and the sustainability of our environment. Votes: 0

We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment." Votes: 0

We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment. Votes: 0

Water is an issue, and, clearly, what's happening with the filth in our environment and the levels of carbon monoxide in our atmosphere are the really scary issues right now, the very troubling ones. Votes: 0

With us the disguise must be complete. The familiar identity of things has to be pulverized in order to destroy the finite associations with which our society increasingly enshrouds every aspect of our environment. Votes: 0

We don't understand the power of nature and the world because we don't live with it. Our environment is designed to sustain us. We are the domestic pets of a human zoo called civilization. Votes: 0

I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment. Votes: 0

Indeed, the night sky is the part of our environment that's been common to all cultures throughout human history. All have gazed up at the 'vault of heaven' and interpreted it in their own way. Votes: 0

Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since. Votes: 0