Some articles on environment, environments:
... is a branch of public health concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment that may affect human health ... whereas environmental science is concerned with the environment as it affects ecosystems ... towards preventing disease and creating health-supportive environments ...
... The Department of Environment and Conservation is a department of the Government of Western Australia that is responsible for implementing the state's conservation and environment legislation and. 1 July 2006 by the amalgamation of the Department of Environment and the Department of Conservation and Land Management (CALM) ...
More definitions of "environment":
- (noun): The totality of surrounding conditions.
Example: "He longed for the comfortable environment of his livingroom"
Famous quotes containing the word environment:
“Autonomy means women defining themselves and the values by which they will live, and beginning to think of institutional arrangements which will order their environment in line with their needs.... Autonomy means moving out from a world in which one is born to marginality, to a past without meaning, and a future determined by others—into a world in which one acts and chooses, aware of a meaningful past and free to shape one’s future.”
—Gerda Lerner (b. 1920)
“Modern man’s capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity’s capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.”
—George F. Will (b. 1941)
“The poorest children in a community now find the beneficent kindergarten open to them from the age of two-and-a-half to six years. Too young heretofore to be eligible to any public school, they have acquired in their babyhood the vicious tendencies of their own depraved neighborhoods; and to their environment at that tender age had been due the loss of decency and self-respect that no after example of education has been able to restore to them.”
—Virginia Thrall Smith (1836–1903)