A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment.

Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.

A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end…. They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made of stone wrenched from the earth or from dead trees....

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic.

Everything we personally own that’s made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we’re either directly responsible for or is done on our...

We need to focus every inch of our being on climate change, because if we fail to do so than all our achievements and progress have been for nothing and all that will remain of...

At a time when we need an urgent national conversation about how schools and curriculum should address the environmental crisis, we’re being told that the problems we need to focus on are teacher incompetence, government...

Life is what you make it and legacy is what you leave it. Stop trying to be perfect, stop waiting for perfection to find you, and start making your environment a product of you instead...

Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world an “Extreme Makeover: Planet Edition” right after he finishes putting...

In this environment, we are aiming for dynamic sales growth that will translate into additional operating income and an operating margin equivalent to 2005, despite the additional negative impact from higher raw material costs.

Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our genetics, to our physiology, to that particular environment in which...

I think the learning environment will benefit,

It is not my place to offer pep talks, aphorisms, or dictums. But if I had to give one piece of practical advice it would be this: Find something that you love that they’re fucking...

If you really think that the enviroment is less important than the economy, try holding your breath while you count your money.

The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid erosion, pollution, environmental degradation, and resource waste. Any rational food-production system will emphasize...

No matter how many toys we amass we leave them behind when we die, just as we leave a broken environment, an economy that only benefits the richest, and a legacy of empowering greed over...

All of these things point to an improving environment for stocks, but the outlook for the year remains flat, … I would think the S&P 500 will trade in a range of about 1,075 to...

One day is not enough to watch a tree, one life is not enough to love a tree.I wonder when i see a new leaf, it was like a new born baby come and meet...

If they mean something to you, incorporate them into your environment. She realized that if she saved just the crests and his name off the uniforms, she could keep the memories without taking up a...

No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools.

Outdoorsmen and sportsmen as a whole have a longstanding tradition of respecting the environment and property lines. I’m sure in this case, it’s a few rotten apples spoiling the bunch, but it doesn’t take much...

This is an industry that lives in cycles. The price environment we’re in today is not sustainable.

Fracking ensures that the age of oil-and it’s princely hydrocarbon cousin, the natural gas molecule-will not end because we have run out of fossil fuels. But it may end because burning these wonderful fuels puts...

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

The department stores did better than I expected to do. It was a decent performance in a tough environment for retail sales.

maintain a monetary-easing environment.

We want everybody to participate and ask questions. We just want an educational environment. We want honesty and openness.

The eyes of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us, I say – we will never forgive you

Today we use 100 million barrels of oil every day. […] There are no rules to keep that oil in the ground. So we can’t save the world by playing by the rules. Because the...

All the department stores we talked to admit quite clearly it’s an unprecedented environment, and they have no direct comparison in being able to plan. It makes their job very, very difficult.

There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it’s not really there.

We’re trying to make a miserable situation as positive as possible. We want to make it a positive environment in the gym every day the kids come to practice. The toughest thing, for me, is...

But the industry has to have a healthy economic environment, and if that environment is not there, an aggressive consumer advocate could mess up the marketplace something horrible.

Above all, it seems to me wrongheaded and dangerous to invoke historical assumptions about environmental practices of native peoples in order to justify treating them fairly. … By invoking this assumption [i.e., that they were/are...

It is uncomfortable to keep your dreams in a house just behind a public toilet; your dreams will surely attract bad odours from the waste products of people in detracting environments. Keep it away from...

Never fall in love with anything life throws at you. You have what it takes to colour your environment with the right decisions at the right time!

Identify the environment where we live and work is important to make us better.

The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity’s captive.

huge,” namely our huge energy consumption. To make this comparison, we need numbers, not adjectives.

[Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It’s more useful.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

We got rich by violating one of the central tenets of economics: thou shall not sell off your capital and call it income. And yet over the past 40 years we have clear-cut the forests,...

Everywhere my feet have touched on this planet has been magic, why cant others see it this way?

Even viewed conservatively, trees are worth far more than they cost toplant and maintain. The U.S. Forest Service’s Center for Urban ForestResearch found a ten-degree difference between the cool of a shadedpark in Tucson and...

It’s pretty simple. These laws are very bad for the cigarette companies, because they create an environment for people to quit if they want to.

It baffles me. I honestly don’t know how they do it. They’re put in an environment that is designed to challenge every part of their lives.

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children’s children. Do not let selfish men or greedy...

If you want the future generations to live in peace, we must invest in the protection of the environment and we must train especially our young people so that they don’t think, for example, the...

The world has a very serious problem, my friend’ Shiva went on. ‘Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the global rich — like me — live in post-scarcity society, while a billion...

At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save the natural world if we are not paying attention to it – if...