"Everyone is aware that most of the built environment today lacks a natural order, an order which presents itself very strongly in places that were built centuries ago"
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"All you can do for another person is be an environment in which if they wanted to come up for air, they could."
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"It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one's environment."
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"The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive."
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"We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap."
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"All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment."
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"Environment is undoubtedly a secondary factor in the phenomena of life; it can modify in that it can help or hinder, but it can never create."
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"The most dominant cultural attributes maintained are the ones that are reinforced by your environment."
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"Several generations of slum environment will produce a slum heredity."
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"Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is inherently painful; introversion is not."
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"Where the environment is too soft and luxurious and no strife is required for survival, not only are weak strains and individuals allowed to survive and encouraged to breed but the strong types also grow fat mentally and physically."
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"It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment."
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"Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them."
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"I will fly around the world doing good for the environment."
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"I do not intend that our natural resources shall be exploited by the few against the interests of the many."
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"I didnt want to be encumbered by what anyone elses abilities were, their equipment or environment or their ability to get certain products."
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"Conservation of energy also protects our environment."
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"The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment."
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"You should be allowed to be a modern city dweller and still care about the environment."
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"Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it."
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