Environmental Factor Quotes

The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.

It's the water. Everything is driven by the water.

At the Last Supper how come no one sat on the other side of the table? See, I think originally there were people sitting on the other side but those were the people going, You know, the air conditioning hits me right on the back on the neck.

I can no longer work outside because of the intensity of the light.

Every season, really, has their own chemistry.

I was hot and I knew it and it went to my head.

But high up on the mountain When the wind is hitting it If you're watching very closely The rock slips a little bit.

Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds.

The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else.

I think that there's got to be a comic gene in some way, but it's so much about it is how you grow up.

I decided to move to Bergen because I like the music environment there.

His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.

The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It's as psychological as malaria. It's a matter of exposure. People, generally speaking, will take any intoxicant or any drug that gives them a pleasant effect if it is available to them.

I desired to know why one person was ailing and his associate, eating at the same table, working in the same shop, at the same bench was not. Why? What difference was there in these two persons that caused one to have various diseases, while his partner escaped?

On embarking to return we could perceive no sign of One Tree Island; and as we swept down towards the sea the leafy top of a tree seen in the clear water under the boat was the only evidence of its existence; though a few hours ago it had formed so prominent an object.

The atmosphere defines the environment of sound.

Wind ought to be a verb or an adverb. It isn't really anything. It's a manner of movement of warmth and cold: a kind of information system of the air.

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

Nothing that you make in the world exists in isolation from the social and political and ecological dimensions of it.

You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.

The further away I am from water, the less well I do!

As soon as I go to another area, another climate, I always have this kind of pressure in my sinuses. Honestly, I used to worry about a lot, I'd think something was wrong with me.

I credit the motion picture industry as the strongest environmental factor in molding the children of my day.