Our Environment Quotes - Page 4

• There are definitely recurring themes in humanity's relationship with our environment. The biggest is probably adaptation, because humans are incredibly good at adapting to new environments in relatively short periods of time. The ancestors of Homo sapiens started leaving Africa over one million years ago, moving from warm, tropical climates into the freezing wilderness of Europe and the desert ecosystems of the Middle East.

  Annalee Newitz

  Moving, Years, Europe

  Source: therumpus.net

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• ...if we all turned down the thermostat in our house by just one degree, we would save over £650 million worth of energy and nearly nine million tonnes of carbon emissions every year. That would be the equivalent of taking three million cars off our roads...we can bring about a Green Consumer Revolution in this country to improve our lives, enrich our economy and protect our environment.

  David Cameron

  Country, Years, Carbon Emissions

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• The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies.

  Al Gore

  Time, War, Struggle

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.275, Routledge

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

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Information, Environment

  Marshall McLuhan (2014). “Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication”, p.119, Routledge

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• The Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum can summarize: "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."

  Ursula Goodenough

  Environmental, Understanding Love, End Of The World

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• Our social and economic statistics are telling us what we already know in our hearts: we have created a world that works for only a few. To change this, we must learn to act toward each other and our environment in profoundly different ways.

  Vaclav Havel

  Heart, Different, World

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• Usually the way I think someone is radicalized is through a personal experience. The thing about environmental activism is that we are all having a personal experience with our environment, whether we open our eyes or not.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Eye, Thinking, Environmental

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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

  Candice Olson

  Believe, Environment, Better Life

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• There is consequence of our forgetting who we are. Forgetting that we're able to create our environment, from our health to economy to war. Something can be done about everything we perceive as bad, if we so choose. If we are aware of the concept of compassion.

  Alanis Morissette

  War, Compassion, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You must watch the pictures that you paint with your imagination. Your environment and the conditions of your life at any given time are the direct result of your own inner expectations. If you imagine dire circumstances, ill health or desperate loneliness, these will be 'automatically' materialized, for these thoughts themselves bring about the conditions that will give them a reality in physical terms. If you would have good health then you must imagine this as vividly as you fearfully imagine ill health.

  Seth

  Loneliness, Health, Reality

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

  Mark Kennedy

  Children, Environmental, Conditions

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• 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.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Fire, Desire, Wheels

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• I know from firsthand experience that our environment and the things and people who cross our paths make all the difference. If people have no prospects for a decent job or a place to belong, it leaves them vulnerable to whoever comes along. For me, it was a Nazi skinhead.

  Christian Picciolini

  People, Path, Environment

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• Happiness comes from within you. If your heart is happy, you can do anything you put your mind to do. Purify your heart. Cleanse it. Make it a wake-up routine. Your environment may be harsh, difficult and tumultuous but if you work on your heart, you can be calm amidst all those challenges. So, to be happy, you not only have to work with all your heart. You have to work on your heart. You will glow from the inside out

  Rita Zahara

  Heart, Challenges, Mind

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• Inside each of us is a unique person resulting from millennia of environment and heredity combined in a way that could never happen again and could never have happened before. We aren't blank slates, but we are also communal creatures who are born before our brains are fully developed, so we're very sensitive to our environment. The question is: How to find the support and the circumstances that allow you to express what's inside you?

  Gloria Steinem

  Unique, Support, Brain

  "Celebrating Gloria Steinem’s 80th Birthday" by Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2014.

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• Our self-identification changes with our environment, but sometimes those dark thoughts permeate within us and there are those who are able to fight off those thoughts and others who don't want to fight them, or have just given in for whatever reason and whether they know the darkness they act upon is wrong, they love the darkness.

  Matthew Carter

  Fighting, Dark, Self

  Source: darkagefiction.wordpress.com

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

  Lewis Gordon

  Important, Generations, Benefits

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• How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Wall, Men, Wind

  "Aviation, Geography, and Race". Reader's Digest, pp. 64-67, November 1939.

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• Your environment influences your mindset.

  Robin Sharma

  Influence, Environment, Mindset

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Aug 08, 2015

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• It is not your environment, it is you- the quality of your mind, the integrity of your soul and the determination of your will that will decide your future and shape your life.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Determination, Integrity, Soul

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• At a time when our planet is warming due to climate change, the last thing our environment needs is more drilling. What we need is for Congress and the White House to move toward clean energy such as solar, wind and geothermal.

  Bernie Sanders

  Moving, Wind, White

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• I know that suffering gives us new perspectives and helps us to clarify our real value. I know that suffering has helped me to clarify my relationships ... Perhaps suffering stops us in our tracks and forces us to confront what is real within ourselves and in our environment.

  Thea Bowman

  Real, Track, Giving

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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

  Sheena Iyengar

  Creative, Environment, Process

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• Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!

  Jim Elliot

  Soul, Growth, Rooms

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• 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

  Dorothy Arzner

  People, Doubt, Environment

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