Why is environment around us important?

We seem to have forgotten that the environment in which we meet has an impact on the quality of what happens within us and between us.

--Parker J. Palmer

Why is environment around us important?

The essence of the power of Context is that the same thing is true for certain kinds of environments - that in ways that we don't necessarily appreciate, our inner states are the result of our outer circumstances.

All of us, when it comes to personality, naturally think in terms of absolute: that a person is a certain way or is not a certain way. But what Zimbardo and Hartshorne and May are suggesting is that this is a mistake, that when we think only in terms of inherent traits and forget the role of situations, we're deceiving ourselves about the real causes of human behaviour.

--Malcolm Gladwell

Why is environment around us important?

The reason that most of us seem to have a consistent character is that most of us are really good at controlling our environment.

--Malcolm Gladwell

Why is environment around us important?

Further, our brain cells seem to chemically change some of their proteins in response to environmental stimuli, so the variations of our cell proteins are practically boundless.

That is, the environment talks to and can change our genes. Is this interplay precisely steered - or is it a game of chance? And if even the environment can play games with our genome, perhaps we do, too, without knowing it.

--Gottfried Schatz

Why is environment around us important?

Like a plant adapting to rich or to depleted soil, a child's brain shapes itself to fit its social ecology, particularly the emotional climate fostered by the main people in her life.

--Daniel Goleman