John Dewey Quotes

The environment is everything that isn't me.

Just because life signifies not bare passive existence (supposing there is such a thing), but a way of acting, environment or medium signifies what enters into this activity as a sustaining or frustrating condition.

I think a setting is hugely important. I look at setting as a character with its own look, sound, history, quirks, goofy temperaments and moods.

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.

We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.

Where you are defines what you're interested in.

My technique has always been to include all the periphery around me.

In terms of work, I'm doing exactly the same as I've always done. It's what's around me that's changed.

Something that has been every important to me in all my projects has been location, the place where they are installed.

Awareness is becoming acquainted with environment, no matter where one happens to be.

An inanimate being is, of course, continuous with its surroundings; but the environing circumstances do not, save metaphorically, constitute an environment. For the inorganic being is not concerned in the influences which affect it.

It's important to understand differences in scale and environment.

When you look for the environment, you find things that are in it: a hammer, a smartphone, some rusty nails, a shed, a spider, some grass, a tree. So there is a big difference between environmentality and Nature. Nature is definitely something you can point to: it is 'over yonder' in the mountains, in my DNA, under the pavement.

If you're sitting in a place like Martha's Vineyard, I don't think you're going to write a song about a ski resort.

Things don't happen in a vacuum, and artists don't make work in a vacuum.

I'm into environmental and ecological issues, so maybe that is an avenue to go down.

It doesn't matter what I use. It can be anything. What's interesting is how what I'm doing meets with the stuff I use.

I do have this belief that we all have a chance to be great, beautiful people based on how we are raised and our surroundings.

Place is the greatest thing, as it contains all things.

Look around you...Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what's happening in the wide world.

The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.

We are surrounded by story.

A light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence.

I always say that environment always affects the food.