Quotes and Sayings About Environment

Surgery is just stabbing in a courteous environment
-- A.L. Kennedy

#Environment #Stabbing #Surgery

Over the long term, it is more profitable to do the right thing for the environment than to pollute it.
-- Aaron Feuerstein

#Long #Climate #Environment

The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Struggle #Today #Environment

Many of our partners are here and this is where the world's expertise on environment and the wider sustainability agenda often and regularly gathers. Here is where international initiatives frequently start and are nurtured. Geneva is one of the hubs where global programs can be often most effectively managed.
-- Achim Steiner

#World #Agendas #Environment

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.
-- Agnes Smedley

#Environment #Made #Inarticulate

The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.
-- Al Gore

#Paris #Attention #Environment

There can be no question about whether we should or should not transform our society in the direction of sustainability.
-- Alan AtKisson

#Our Society #Environment #Sustainability

Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.
-- Alan Ball

#World #Environment #Window

I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
-- Alan Ball

#Environment #Progressive #Grew Up

Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.
-- Alan Watts

#Looks #World #Environment

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
-- Albert Allen Bartlett

#Race #Inability #Environment

So much beauty in the world, so few eyes to see it.
-- Albert Cossery

#Eye #World #Environment

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
-- Albert Einstein

#Nature #Environment #Stills

Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Nature #Environment #Prosperity

We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Risk #Environment #Drink

It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.
-- Aleister Crowley

#World #Stuff #Environment

Trees are your best antiques
-- Alexander Smith

#Tree #Antiques #Environment

I still think that being thrown in a very competitive environment where you really have to see what you are made of - certainly when you come out of nowhere - was good for me.
-- Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

#Thinking #Environment #Made

Children who are respected learn respect. Children who are cared for learn to care for those weaker than themselves. Children who are loved for what they are cannot learn intolerance. In an environment such as this, they will develop their own ideals, which can be nothing other than humane, since they grew out of the experience of love.
-- Alice Miller

#Children #Care #Environment

Eating is an environmental act.
-- Alice Waters

#Environmental #Environment #Eating

But we can’t control the environment; all we can control is the way we react to it.
-- Alison Levine

#Way #Environment

We must protect our most precious resource, our environment, for future generations.
-- Alma Adams

#Generations #Environment #Resources

I think one of the greatest gifts you can give to someone is just access to the possibility of freedom that you don't have to be totally depressed and enslaved by your own environment.
-- Amanda Palmer

#Thinking #Giving #Environment

If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it.
-- Amory Lovins

#Energy #Littles #Environment

Karl Marx once said, 'The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.' Marx was wrong. The last capitalist to be hanged shall be the one who donated the rope, and then lobbied for his own hanging.
-- Amy Ridenour

#Rope #Lasts #Environment

I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.
-- Andreas Gursky

#Environment #Individual #Humans

I think a person permeates a spot, and a lost presence makes the environment timeless to me, keeps an area alive. It pulsates because of that.
-- Andrew Wyeth

#Thinking #Alive #Environment

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

#Outsiders #Environment #Drifters

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.
-- Anna Deavere Smith

#Path #Environment #Feels

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.
-- Anna Maria Chavez

#Nonprofits #Nimble #Environment