External Environment Quotes

Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.

By ecology we understand the total science of the connections of the organism to the surrounding external world.

Understanding of the self only arises in relationship, in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things; to trees, the earth, and the world around you and within you. Relationship is the mirror in which the self is revealed. Without self-knowledge there is no basis for right thought and action.

The world "out there" won't change until the world "in here" does.

The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.

I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.

The sky is no longer out there, but it is right on the edge of the space you are in. The sense of colour is generated inside you. If you then go outside you will see a different coloured sky. You colour the sky.

If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.

Of the Surface of Things In my room, the world is beyond my understanding; But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four Hills and a cloud.

Your inner world reflects your outer world.

There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.

The world is all outside, it has no inside.

The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism.

I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings.

Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.

Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his attempts at controlling body and soul.

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

When I walk into a new organization and I don't know the industry or the people, which has always been the case, I do a few things. One is I think about the business from the outside in.

I am what is around me.

The more I have written, the less it has been about exploring myself, and the more it has been about exploring the world around me.

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her.