Environment Quotes

What is imposed on us by birth and environment is what we are called upon to overcome.

All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.

The symbol for the Environment Ministry is the eye of a tortoise, for the long viewthe understanding that nothing comes cheap or quickly without a hidden cost.

It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation of the Midas-hand, whose cursed touch turns everything to the brutal service of Mammon.

When you grow up in that (multi-ethnic) environment, you see the world differently. Being a mixed-race child, I didn't always see colour in people, I really didn't. It was other people that made me see the colour all the time.

If they don't act, we will. Shame on them but we cannot sit around and watch our environment deteriorate and put this world in jeopardy. We are willing to stand up, we think it is one of the seminal issues of our time.

The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment.

We will be one of the extinguished species. The good news is that life on the planet will recover and peace will return to the environment.

I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.

We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.

...the news might be single-handedly trying to bring about an environmental catastrophe, which it will then report on.

Like living creatures, automobiles expired when their environment became saturated with their own excreta. We ourselves are living creatures. We don't want the same to happen to us.

Issues that once divided Conservatives from Liberal Democrats are now issues where we both agree. Our attitude to devolution and localisation of power. Iraq. The environment. I'm a liberal Conservative.

My priorities? The environment, the environment, the environment.