#ironmen

The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#attributable #between #biological #broadest #continental

When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#emotions #entire #environment #express #film

San Francisco is an interesting place. It's always been such a nice culturally diverse environment, which it still is, but there's a lot of money there now and a lot of dot com's so it's a little different than it used to be. ↗

— Les Claypool

#been #com #culturally #different #diverse

You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#elected #environment #get #into #male

All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body - like radiation, cancer, and all. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#beings #body #cancer #elements #environment

The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#arises #crisis #die #energy #environmental

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#action #american #american people #day #earth

I don't believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#believe #done #environmentalism #i #i believe

My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#arena #between #demonstrates #dramatically #entry

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#change #confront #corporate #development #economic