ENVIRONMENT

Related Subjects: Influence, Limitation, Opportunity, Society

1. Man's advance in control over his environment is making it more and more difficult for him, at least in the industrialized countries with a high standard of living, like America or England, to lead a naturally good life, and easier and easier to lead a morally bad one.—W. H. AUDEN, I Believe
   

2. Language and customs are determined far more by the environment in which the child grows up than by its descent, because the physical attributes, so far as they have any influence at all, occur with extraordinary variety within every group.—FRANZ BOAS, Aryans & Non-Aryans
   

3. Mankind has the latent power deliberately to adjust its environment in the interest of a fuller and happier life for all. We are not the helpless creatures of blind forces forever beyond our control.—STUART CHASE, Are Radicals Crazy?
   

4. Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.—JOHN DEWEY
   

5. Men resemble their contemporaries even more than their progenitors.—EMERSON, Representative Men
   

6. Hearts just as pure and fair
   May bloom in Belgrave Square
   As in the lowly air of Seven Dials.—W. S. GILBERT, Iolanthe
   

7. Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil.—HAWTHORNE, The Scarlet Letter
   

8. There's many a life of sweet content
   Whose virtue is environment.—WALTER LEARNED
   

9. They that live in a trading street are not disturbed at the passage of carts.—SIR RICHARD STEELE, The Spectator