Famous Quotes
- A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs.
- Matt Gonzalez on Environmental
- A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.
- Donella Meadows on Environmental
- A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
- Beverly Sills on Environmental
- A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.
- Maurice Strong on Environmental
- A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply, demand and competition for crude oil, taxes, regional differences in access to gasoline supplies and environmental regulations.
- Gary Miller on Environmental
- A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
- E. O. Wilson on Environmental
- Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.
- Ted Danson on Environmental
- Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.
- Marshall McLuhan on Environmental
- After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.
- Maurice Strong on Environmental
- All is connected... no one thing can change by itself.
- Paul Hawken on Environmental
- All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.
- Lynn Margulis on Environmental
- All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.
- David Attenborough on Environmental
- American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
- Katherine Dunn on Environmental
- Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.
- Jeff Goodell on Environmental
- And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.
- Daryl Hannah on Environmental
- And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over.
- Ed Rendell on Environmental
- Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.
- John Portman on Environmental
- At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about, we don't have environmental cases against us, we don't have a series of outdoor-advertising companies.
- Keith Olbermann on Environmental
- At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money.
- Ethan Hawke on Environmental
- Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall.
- David Suzuki on Environmental
- Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.
- Roger Tory Peterson on Environmental
- But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it.
- John Anderson on Environmental
- But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability.
- Jim Clyburn on Environmental
- But, as environment minister, I am very interested in a thriving German automobile industry, because I can only pay for the rising costs of environmental protection at home and abroad if there are people in Germany with jobs and who pay taxes.
- Sigmar Gabriel on Environmental
- By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
- Barry Commoner on Environmental
- By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities.
- Dan Lipinski on Environmental
- By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
- Aeschylus on Environmental
- Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.
- Alan Dundes on Environmental
- Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.
- Muhammad Yunus on Environmental
- Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
- Bill Nye on Environmental
- Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.
- Christopher Alexander on Environmental
- Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
- Aldo Leopold on Environmental
- Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan.
- Jane D. Hull on Environmental
- During my travels in Iraq, Israel, Gaza, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Europe and all over the United States, I have seen and heard the voices of people who want change. They want the stabilization of the economy, education and healthcare for all, renewable energy and an environmental vision with an eye on generations to come.
- Michael Franti on Environmental
- Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
- Barry Commoner on Environmental
- Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.
- Vivienne Westwood on Environmental
- Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.
- John Sununu on Environmental
- Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.
- Jon Meacham on Environmental
- Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art.
- Barry Commoner on Environmental
- Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.
- Warren Christopher on Environmental
- Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.
- James Fallows on Environmental
- Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.
- Jim Clyburn on Environmental
- Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
- Barry Commoner on Environmental
- Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.
- Jim Clyburn on Environmental
- Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.
- Barry Commoner on Environmental
- Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country.
- Richard Lugar on Environmental
- Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.
- Bill Bradley on Environmental
- Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.
- Joan Jett on Environmental
- Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.
- Jared Diamond on Environmental
- For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals.
- Alexandra Paul on Environmental
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