The Environment and The Republic
“While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean, pollution-free environment.”
Barry Goldwater
U.S. Senator from Arizona
- Environment:1(a) The conditions that surround someone or something: the conditions and influences that affect the growth, health, progress, etc., of someone or something; 2 (b) The environment: the natural world.
- Environmental:1(a) Relating to the natural world and the impact of human activity on its condition; 2 (b) Relating to or arising from a person's surroundings.
"The bedrock attribute of a successful city district is that a person must feel personally safe and secure on the street among all these strangers. He must not feel automatically menaced by them. A city district that fails in this respect also does badly in other ways and lays up for itself, and for its city at large, mountain on mountain of trouble."
Jane Jacobs
Urban Activist and Author