Quotes by Environment Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity? E. O. Wilson masterpiece environment looks Because the living environment is what really sustains us. E. O. Wilson environment The education of women is the best way to save the environment. E. O. Wilson save-the-environment environment way All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments. E. O. Wilson environment born three That's what the best global conservation organisations and the American government (and other environmentally inclined governments, such as Sweden and the Netherlands) are doing: protecting the remaining wild environment. This is the equivalent of getting a patient to the emergency room - keep them alive and then figure out how to save them. E. O. Wilson conservation environment patient If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling. Ed Begley, Jr. recycling environment buying Until every individual feels personally responsible for the careful planning and the preservation of natural resources, the inexorable destruction will go on. Eda LeShan planning environment goes-on We live in a paradox: connected electronically but disconnected interpersonally. However, when you recognize the problem, you can take steps to correct it. You can create an emotionally connected environment anywhere if you try hard enough. Edward Hallowell environment problem trying Humans create their cognitive powers by creating the environments in which they exercise those powers Edwin Hutchins creating environment exercise As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger. Edwin Hubbel Chapin environment pride flesh The environment that people live in is the environment that they learn to live in, respond to, and perpetuate. If the environment is good, so be it. But if it is poor, so is the quality of life within it. Ellen Swallow Richards environment quality people Philosophers of biology generally recognize that evolutionary fitness (roughly, an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment) is multiply realizable. Elliott Sober philosopher biology environment Trait X is fitter than trait Y in a population of organisms if those organisms have other biological traits T and live in an environment that has properties E. The theory of natural selection is filled with statements of this form. Elliott Sober population environment natural Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. Emile Durkheim environment social mind A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact. Emile Durkheim autonomy environment relation Just having walked into a prison environment, sat there for two hours, the effect that it had on me. ... I couldn't imagine the effect it would have on a person 24 hours a day. So then I became more intrigued, and we began a correspondence, and I began visiting [Todd Willingham]. Elizabeth Gilbert environment prison two I'm thankful for the talent in which God gave me and I'm thankful for the environment that he placed me. Eminem environment talent funny We are social beings and our brains grow in a social environment. Eric Jensen environment social brain You can change environments, but until you change yourself, nothing else will ever change. Eric Thomas change-yourself environment success I grew up in New York in an English-speaking environment. Erik Estrada environment grew-up new-york «678910111213141516»