Environment Quotes - Page 21

• Bush fell off his bike while mountain biking on his ranch over the weekend. He hit a rough spot in the trail. There's a switch - the environment hurting Bush.

  Jay Leno

  Hurt, Weekend, Mountain

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• There is no condition that you cannot modify into something more, any more than there is any painting that you can paint and not like and just paint over it again. There are many limiting thoughts in the human environment that make it feel like it is not so, as you have these incurable illnesses, or these unchangeable conditions. But we say, they are only "unchangeable" because you believe that they are.

  Esther Hicks

  Believe, Painting, Illness

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• For those parents from lower-class and minority communities[who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and hostile contact with social service agencies, their initial approaches to the school are often overwhelming and difficult. Not only does the school feel like an alien environment with incomprehensible norms and structures, but the families often do not feel entitled to make demands or force disagreements.

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

  School, Class, Agency

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• There is no amount of darkness that can extinguish the inner light. The important thing is not to spend our lives trying to control the environment around us. The task is to control the environment within us.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Light, Darkness, Important

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• The transformation of forests into deserts, fertile earth into sunbaked concrete, and running rivers into silted floodwaters show that only through care for the environment can the livelihoods of those most dependent on it be sustained. We cannot allow economic and environmental concerns to be played off against each other.

  Petra Kelly

  Running, Rivers, Environmental

  Petra Karin Kelly (1994). “Thinking green!: essays on environmentalism, feminism, and nonviolence”, Parallax Pr

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• In this uncertain world, the food is disposable. It is the wrappings that are permanent.

  Irena Chalmers

  Food, World, Uncertain

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• Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Success, Perseverance, Being Yourself

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• Humans are incapable of securely storing high-quality cryptographic keys, and they have unacceptable speed and accuracy when performing cryptographic operations. (They are also large, expensive to maintain, difficult to manage, and they pollute the environment. It is astonishing that these devices continue to be manufactured and deployed. But they are sufficiently pervasive that we must design our protocols around their limitations.)

  Charlie Kaufman

  Keys, Design, Quality

  "Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World". Book by Charlie Kaufman, Radia Perlman and Mike Speciner, April 22, 2002.

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• I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You dont pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it works.

  Charles Petzold

  Window, Judgment, Scientist

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• As the United States begins a new chapter in our relationship with Cuba, we hope it will create an environment that improves the lives of the Cuban people, not because it is imposed by us, the United States, but through the talent and ingenuity and aspirations, and the conversations among Cubans from all walks of life so they can decide what the best course is for their prosperity.

  Barack Obama

  Life, People, United States

  "Barack Obama and Raúl Castro's handshake captured by cameras" by Jonathan Watts, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2015.

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• When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied - particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines - when dissent is silenced, it feeds violent extremism, it creates an environment that is ripe for terrorists to exploit. When peaceful, democratic change is impossible, it feeds into the terrorist propaganda that violence is the only answer available.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Rights, People

  Barack Obama's remarks at the Summit on Countering Violent Extremism at the State Department in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 19, 2015.

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• 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.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Government, Focus

  "Obama ventures into swamp, and enemy political territory, to deliver Earth Day message". www.foxnews.com. April 22, 2015.

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• The president is eager to get to work and looks forward to working with the new Congress on policies that will make sure middle-class Americans are sharing in the economic recovery, but the president is clear that he will not let this Congress undo important protections gained -- particularly in areas of health care, Wall Street reform and the environment.

  Barack Obama

  Wall, Health, Recovery

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• Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences.

  Timothy Leary

  Adaptation, Individual, Repetitive

  Timothy Leary (2009). “Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out”, p.7, Ronin Publishing

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• In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs almost invariably in individuals within our society is nevertheless due not to original nature but to social environment; and a homogeneous and simple development of the individual may be studied.

  Margaret Mead

  Simple, May, Our Society

  Margaret Mead (1962). “Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education”

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• We must occasionally remind ourselves of our brief visit on this planet. Shouldn't we try to express ourselves clearly, make a personal stamp on our environment, and pay attention to the details that make the difference?

  Charlotte Moss

  Differences, Design, Trying

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• I believe we have made a decision now that will permit us to create an economic order in the world that will promote more growth, more equality, better preservation of the environment, and a greater possibility of world peace, we are on the verge of a global economic expansion that is sparked by the fact that the United States at this critical moment decided that we would compete, not retreat.

  William J. Clinton

  Peace, Believe, Order

  William J. Clinton “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1993, Bk. 2, August 1 to December 31, 1993”, Government Printing Office

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• Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Drama, Depth, Youth

  "The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects". Book by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, 1967.

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• Interfacing street sculpture in public space creates an installation environment that turns regular space into art space. Signs and people and everything around a street sculpture-they all become part of it. A two-dimensional work, being confined to surfaces, doesn't have as much of a capacity.

  Mark Jenkins

  Art, Two, Space

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• Certainly the Republican Party changed and I never changed, as I became an independent my values never changed whether it's on fiscal responsibility, environment or using government tools to help the less fortunate.

  Lincoln Chafee

  Party, Independent, Responsibility

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• I grew up in environment that had more women in science.

  Fabiola Gianotti

  Science, Grew Up, Grew

  "Would you rather be sexy or smart?". Interview with Carol Costello, www.cnn.com. December 15, 2014.

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• 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?

  Steve Irwin

  People, Wildlife, Cherish

  Steve Irwin, Terri Irwin (2002). “The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin”, p.220, Penguin

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• We can at least see that the question is asked, and asked on the basis of a clear recognition that there is no way of manipulating our environment that is without cost or consequence - and thus also of a recognition that we are inextricably bound up with the destiny of our world. There is no guarantee that the world we live in will "tolerate" us indefinitely if we prove ourselves unable to live within its constraints.

  Rowan Williams

  Destiny, Our World, Guarantees That

  "Our duty to the earth" by Rowan Williams, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2009.

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• The gradual depletion of the ozone layer and the related "greenhouse effect" has now reached crisis proportions as a consequence of industrial growth, massive urban concentrations and vastly increased energy needs. Industrial waste, the burning of fossil fuels, unrestricted deforestation, the use of certain types of herbicides, coolants and propellants: all of these are known to harm the atmosphere and environment.

  Pope John Paul II

  Ozone Layer, Growth, Atmosphere

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• If humanity today succeeds in combining the new scientific capacities with a strong ethical dimension, it will certainly be able to promote the environment as a home and a resource for...all...and will be able to eliminate the causes of pollution and to guarantee adequate conditions of hygiene and health for small groups as well as for vast human settlements.

  Pope John Paul II

  Strong, Home, Hygiene

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