Famous Quotes & Sayings

Le Corbusier

The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed.The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to see that the tree flourishes.

Angela King

Trees can't do their thing unless they are in the right spot.

E. F. Schumacher

Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.

William Shakespeare

Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die! -Posthumus Leonatus Act V, Scene V

Kerry Johnson

We didn't even know what trees are here, ... They've got trees there. What we have are twigs.

William Shakespeare

I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd, Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree, And that would set my teeth nothing an edge, Nothing so much, as mincing Poetrie...

Charles Dickens

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

Alan Watts

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

Casey Affleck

My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

G. Gordon Liddy

Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.

Ed Rendell

There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.

Mike Love

One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.'

Dick Cheney

Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.

Noam Chomsky

Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard Nixon, who would be something of a dangerous radical in today's political scene.

Jerry Costello

This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades.

Chris Stewart

There is no better example of the overreach of government than in environmental law.

Peter Singer

If people are prepared to eat locally and seasonally, then they probably do pretty well in terms of environmental impact.

Holly Robinson Peete

I'm not a doctor or scientist. I'm just a mom. But I do think there's a genetic predisposition, and there are environmental triggers. I feel like that combination, in my child's case, is what resulted in autism.

Paul Singer

Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank.

Source Unknown

Three levels of organizational vision: 1. The Do-able 2. The Conceivable 3. The Previously Unthinkable.

Isabelle Arthur

Unfortunately, this route had not met profitability levels that are necessary to sustain operations.

Alanis Morissette

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

Alan Watts

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

Caitlin Moran

I've generally got low levels of embarrassment.

Bo Burnham

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

Billy Higgins

The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.

Bill Paxton

When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.