Physical Environment Quotes

We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us.

Protecting Americans from harm goes beyond police and national defense. It's imperative that we not destroy the commons, the physical environment on which we rely.

People outside the profession of architecture perhaps often lack the understanding of how their physical environment comes into being. What are the processes, the concerns and considerations? What are the parameters that shape the world around them?

Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select novel adaptive pathways.

The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

When we did 'The Jewel In The Crown,' we filmed in India first so the actors had an idea of what the heat was like, what it did to you - it slows you down; it's weighty: the air that you breathe is full of humidity. You are aware of the fact that you're not in a studio in Manchester.

I mean I think people prepared me for like a lot of green screen [in Oz the Great]. I didn't have a lot of green screen. They build most sets. When this castle was tangible, Emerald City was tangible, the forest, the woods was tangible, the cemetery, everything was there.

From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.

The commercial media are to the mental environment what factories are to the physical environment

It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain.

I often forget that I'm a little person. It's the physical environment and society that remind me.

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

If you are playing bad you are going to lose here, on clay, on ice, or on the beach.

Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.

There is no question that the objects that surround us impact our experience of the world.

In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home.

When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.

I spend shockingly little time thinking about real-world stuff.

Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.

Auditioning and actually acting on a set are two different things. When you audition, you're in a room and you don't have anything to play with and you don't have anything physically in the room. Whereas on set, you have direction, you have costumes, and you have other actors to work with. It's a completely different thing.

There is not, in fact, any such thing as the direct influence of one human being on another apart from use of the physical environment as an intermediary. A smile, a frown, a rebuke, a word of warning or encouragement, all involve some physical change. Otherwise, the attitude of one would not get over to alter the attitude of another.

Geography is everywhere

Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture.