1 They were sure of themselves and of their environment.
2 But Mr. Rosedale wanted, in the long run, a more individual environment.
3 He had meant to keep free from permanent ties, not from any poverty of feeling, but because, in a different way, he was, as much as Lily, the victim of his environment.
4 Moral complications existed for her only in the environment that had produced them; she did not mean to slight or ignore them, but they lost their reality when they changed their background.
5 The environment in which Lily found herself was as strange to her as its inhabitants.
6 That she was seeing with different eyes and making the acquaintance of new conditions in herself that colored and changed her environment, she did not yet suspect.
7 It was utterly useless to caution them and plead with them; quite without knowing it, they were taking on the tone of their new environment.
8 During the early spring he had refrained from adding extensively to the comfort of his environment because he had felt that the army might start on the march at any moment.
9 He accepted new environment and circumstance with great coolness, eating from his haversack at every opportunity.
10 An environment which would have made a contented woman a poet, a suffering woman a devotee, a pious woman a psalmist, even a giddy woman thoughtful, made a rebellious woman saturnine.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night 11 The incongruity between the men's deeds and their environment was great.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current 12 An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism.
13 When sticks and stones and beasts form the sole environment of a people, their attitude is largely one of determined opposition to and conquest of natural forces.
14 Since under the peculiar circumstances of the black man's environment they were the one expression of his higher life, they are of deep interest to the student of his development, both socially and psychologically.
15 But it was not merely the physical conditions of environment that had caused the change.