Environmental famous quotes

I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts.
-- Aisha Tyler

#Art #Government #Environmental

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.
-- Al Gore

#Thinking #Environmental #Energy

The explosion of a terrorist's single nuclear device in a major metropolitan center would trigger an unparalleled humanitarian and environmental disaster. An accidental military launch of multiple warheads could result in a worldwide nuclear holocaust. Medical researchers and military analysts forebode grim consequences.
-- Alan Cranston

#Military #Holocaust #Environmental

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
-- Aldo Leopold

#Hands #Land #Environmental

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.
-- Aldo Leopold

#Nature #Environmental #Wilderness

The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on.
-- Alex Steffen

#Environmental #Goes On #Disease

In a world where millions of human beings live in extreme poverty, die of malnutrition and lack medical care, where pandemics continue to kill, it is imperative to pursue good faith disarmament negotiations and to shift budgets away from weapons production, war-mongering, surveillance of private persons and devote available resources to address global challenges including humanitarian relief, environmental protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation, prevention of pandemics, and the development of a green economy.
-- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

#War #Challenges #Environmental

It's about the connecting force from form to form. It's the toe bone connecting to the shoulder bone. It's the bacterial kick of life force, something growing out of nothing, forming itself out of something else. Form never stops. And form is always environmental.
-- Ali Smith

#Environmental #Growing #Toes

Eating is an environmental act.
-- Alice Waters

#Environmental #Environment #Eating

So it is fair to ask, why not address the threat of climate change when it is still possible? Asad Rehman, of the international environmental group Friends of the Earth, who was in New York for the climate march, told me, “If we can find the trillions [of dollars] we’re finding for conflict whether there’s been the invasion in Iraq or Afghanistan or now the conflict in Syria, then we can find the kind of money that’s required for the transformation that will deliver clean, renewable energy.”
-- Amy Goodman

#New York #Iraq #Environmental

We'll continue to see more and more brands integrate social causes, charitable components and environmental issues as underlying themes to their campaigns and messaging. Humans connect with humans after all, and brands are using this as a point of connection to engage with their audience, especially charity-minded Generation Y.
-- Amy Jo Martin

#Issues #Environmental #Generations

CAFE standards have little impact on greenhouse gas emissions, and the environmental benefits of increasing CAFE standards are frequently overstated. Their impact on human health is more certain: CAFE standards have resulted in tens of thousands of deaths since their adoption.
-- Amy Ridenour

#Impact #Adoption #Environmental

[D]id you really expect fairness on the environmental issue? For a swathe of reporters, this is not a matter of empirical reporting; it's a matter of faith. Bush cannot be pro-environment because he's Bush.
-- Andrew Sullivan

#Issues #Environmental #Politics

This is a timely and relevant initiative. The environmental challenges facing Singapore and the region are becoming more complex. Tackling them will require inter-disciplinary approaches combined with a good understanding of science, economics and governance aspects. The NUS Bachelor of Environment programme will fill a much needed gap in the current framework. NEA is pleased to be a partner to this programme.
-- Andrew Tan

#Challenges #Understanding #Environmental

My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.
-- Annie Leibovitz

#Artist #Choices #Environmental

We will pay for this [climate change] one way or another. We will pay to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions today and we'll have to take an enormous hit of some kind. Or we will pay the price later in military terms. And that will involve human lives. There will be a human toll. There is no way out of this that does not have real costs attached to it.
-- Anthony Zinni

#Military #Real #Environmental

The orthodox environmental theories [of heredity] have been accepted not because they have stood up under proper scientific investigations, but because they harmonize so well with our democratic belief in human equality.
-- Arthur Jensen

#Environmental #Belief #Accepted

I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible.
-- Atom Egoyan

#Environmental #Shooting #Way

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?
-- B. F. Skinner

#Environmental #Doe #Poet

The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to make sure that violence isn't being perpetrated against workers who are just trying to organize for their rights.
-- Barack Obama

#Rights #Agreement #Environmental

We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.
-- Barbara Boxer

#Fighting #Justice #Environmental

What they [Jim deMint and the oil lobby] do care about is the precedent. If they open up ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), they'll think they can do anything to the environment - anything at all. Drilling in Yosemite? In the Grand Canyon? What's next?
-- Barbara Boxer

#Thinking #Oil #Environmental

If the positive innovations connect exponentially before the massive breakdowns reinforce one another, the system can re-pattern itself to a higher order of consciousness and freedom without the predicted economic, environmental, and social collapse...If the system could go either way, a slight intervention to assist the convergence of the positive can tip the scales of evolution in favor of the enhancement of life on Earth.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Order #Innovation #Environmental

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
-- Barry Commoner

#Environmental #Disease #Pollution

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
-- Barry Commoner

#War #Years #Environmental

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
-- Barry Commoner

#Environmental #Action #Problem

The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. This wealth has been gained by rapid short-term exploitation of the environmental system, but it has blindly accumulated a debt to nature-a debt so large and so pervasive that in the next generation it may, if unpaid, wipe out most of the wealth it has gained us.
-- Barry Commoner

#Technology #Environmental #May

The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is a warning that we must discover the source of this suicidal drive and master it before it destroys the environment-and ourselves.
-- Barry Commoner

#Suicidal #Environmental #Warning

My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
-- Barry Commoner

#Issues #Environmental #Nuclear

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

#Simple #Environmental #Quality

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
-- Barry Commoner

#Growth #Environmental #Quality

In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.
-- Barry Commoner

#Independent #Environmental #Hazards

We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.
-- Barry Commoner

#Earth Day #Survival #Environmental

I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights.
-- Beau Garrett

#Animal #Rights #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

#Art #Perception #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

#Thinking #Environmental #Mountain

I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century.
-- Bill Ford

#Believe #Environmental #Twenties

You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash.
-- Bill Maher

#Sea #Environmental #Windmills

If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it's going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under control. But it's also going to be very hard to live the rounded and joyful lives that could be ours. This is a subversive volume in all the best ways!
-- Bill McKibben

#Thinking #Growth #Environmental

Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
-- Bill Nye

#Thinking #Issues #Environmental

Contempt for science could perhaps depend on the fact that, science hasn't been able to solve any of our basic problems, for example the environmental pollution or the problems with HIV and AIDS. This is the worst disease of our time, and scientists are lost. I believe that many people are disappointed with science when the answers we need are not delivered.
-- Bjorn Ulvaeus

#Believe #People #Environmental

The future will either be green or not at all.
-- Bob Brown

#Environmental #Green

There are better alternatives, ... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.
-- Bob Brown

#Technology #Australia #Environmental

It is extremely important to me that the social and environmental issues associated with the production of fashion clothing are addressed.
-- Bonnie Wright

#Fashion #Issues #Environmental

The universe is an inexhaustible celebration of ultimate mystery!
-- Brian Swimme

#Environmental #Celebration #Mystery

Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals that
-- Bruce H. Lipton

#Character #Cells #Environmental

Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.
-- Bruce Lee

#Self #Support #Environmental

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?
-- Bruce Sterling

#Ideas #Environmental #Rotting

We are no longer in the World of the Fourth Sun, but we are not yet in the World of the Fifth Sun. This is the time in-between, the time of transition. As we pass through transition there is a colossal, global convergence of environmental destruction, social chaos, war, and ongoing Earth Changes.
-- Carlos Barrios

#War #Environmental #Transition

This is probably the biggest environmental disaster we have ever faced in this country. It is certainly the biggest oil spill and we are responding with the biggest environmental response.
-- Carol Browner

#Country #Oil #Environmental

Char Miller's lively, insightful account of the life and world of American forester Gifford Pinchot fills a vitally important gap in environmental and conservation history. Anyone captivated by the issues and controversies surrounding the preservation and development of the nation's natural heritage should read this engaging, carefully researched biography.
-- Carolyn Merchant

#Issues #Insightful #Environmental

Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.
-- Cathy McMorris Rodgers

#Land #Healthy #Environmental

What we do flows from who we are.
-- Charles Colson

#Inspirational #Environmental #Who We Are

In reality, Kyoto was a huge transfer of resources from the United States to the Third World, under the guise of environmental protection.
-- Charles Krauthammer

#Reality #Kyoto #Environmental

In an ideal world, entertainment would be regarded as what it is - entertainment - and wouldn't be valued more heavily than education, than science, than environmental awareness.
-- Chris Kluwe

#Environmental #Would Be #World

No matter if the science is all phoney, there are collateral environmental benefits.... climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.
-- Christine Stewart

#Justice #Environmental #Climate

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.
-- Christopher Alexander

#Design #Environmental #Problem

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.
-- Christopher Dodd

#Hands #Growth #Environmental

Celebrate Earth Day! A time to recognize the gains we have made. A time to create new actions to accelerate environmental progress. Protect our planet not only on Earth Day, but everyday!
-- Ciaran Lynch

#Earth Day #Everyday #Environmental

There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it.
-- Clay Shirky

#Lying #Together #Environmental

On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.
-- Clive Anderson

#Tree #Environmental #Levels

There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak and small continue to be trodden by the mighty and powerful.
-- Dalai Lama

#Powerful #Long #Environmental

Be gentle with the earth.
-- Dalai Lama

#Karma #Buddhist #Environmental

The environmental benefits of hydrogen are also outstanding. When used as an energy source, hydrogen produces no emissions besides water. Zero polluting emissions, an amazing advance over the current sources of energy that we use.
-- Dan Lipinski

#Zero #Water #Environmental

By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities.
-- Dan Lipinski

#Cutting #Priorities #Environmental

Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.
-- Dan Lipinski

#Promise #Environmental #Energy

We don't know what those other cycles were caused by in the past. Could be dinosaur flatulence, you know, or who knows?
-- Dana Rohrabacher

#Past #Environmental #Dinosaurs

Life has had to deal with environmental change, especially climate change, since the beginning of its existence on Earth.
-- Daniel Botkin

#Environmental #Climate #Earth

Life and the environment are one thing, not two, and people, as all life, are immersed in the one system. When we influence nature, we influence ourselves; when we change nature, we change ourselves.
-- Daniel Botkin

#Two #People #Environmental

Humans react to danger when it is immediate, immoral, visible... Global warming does not press any of those buttons.
-- Daniel Gilbert

#Environmental #Buttons #Doe

We humans can look deep into future and predict what will happen, but then turn around and do nothing about it.
-- Daniel Gilbert

#Environmental #Looks #Turns

Shipping by sea produces 1/60 the emissions of shipping by air and about 1/5 that of trucking.
-- Daniel Goleman

#Air #Sea #Environmental

While the climate crisis gathers front-page attention on a regular basis, people - even those who profess great environmental consciousness - continue to eat fish as if it were a sustainable practice.
-- Daniel Pauly

#Practice #People #Environmental

An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave. They left, abandoning the delegates unable to talk to each other in their native languages. The French head of the committee, who had insisted on speaking only in French throughout the week suddenly demonstrated the ability to speak excellent English with English-speaking delegates.
-- Daniel Yergin

#Past #Important #Environmental

If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.
-- Danny Glover

#Kids #Racism #Environmental

Judi Bari did something that I believe is unparalleled in the history of the environmental movement. She is an Earth First! activist who took it upon herself to organize Georgia Pacific sawmill workers into the IWW…Well guess what friends, environmentalists and rank and file timber workers becoming allies is the most dangerous thing in the world to the timber industry!
-- Darryl Cherney

#Believe #Environmental #Earth

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

#Common Sense #Political #Environmental

One in eight plant species face extinction.
-- David Attenborough

#Eight #Environmental #Extinction

All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.
-- David Attenborough

#People #Environmental #Population

The fact that the federal government is the nation's greatest environmental villain has not stopped activists from reflexively turning to politicians to “protect the environment.”
-- David Bergland

#Government #Environmental #Facts

Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.
-- David Foreman

#Cancer #Brain #Environmental

Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.
-- David Foreman

#Race #Environmental #Earth

I stress that I am not attacking Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, and the environmental movement in general. They have done some good work overall. I am merely pointing out that they can, and are, used to promote the New World Order, mostly (though certainly not in every case), without their knowledge.
-- David Icke

#Stress #Order #Environmental

Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.
-- David James Duncan

#Ecosystems #Environmental #Compromise

Turning every business into an environmental industry will involve applying new principles...first, we need to make more with less...second, we need to design out waste...third, we must begin to decarbonise our energy supply
-- David Miliband

#Business #Design #Environmental

Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until you make yourself sick
-- David Miliband

#Sick #Childhood #Environmental

Today, the UK must be the pioneer of a new model of economic change, that integrates social and environmental consideration. This is not just a question of values and moral duty. It is about our economy's capacity to sustain itself
-- David Miliband

#Business #Environmental #Today

In the future, every industry should be an environmental industry. In a world where energy and carbon emissions are constrained, every business must take resource productivity seriously
-- David Miliband

#Business #Environmental #World

There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river.
-- David R. Brower

#Rivers #Environmental #Way

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!
-- David R. Brower

#Environmental #Garbage #Stores

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.
-- David R. Brower

#Environmental #Energy #Wrecks

It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it.
-- David R. Brower

#Men #Environmental #Heritage

You don't need it, but will you take some advice from a Californian who's been around for a while? Cherish these rivers. Witness for them. Enjoy their unimprovable purpose as you sense it, and let those rivers that you never visit comfort you with the assurance that they are there, doing wonderfully what they have always done.
-- David R. Brower

#Rivers #Advice #Environmental

Keep your rivers flowing as they will, and you will continue to know the most important of all freedoms-the boundless scope of the human mind to contemplate wonders, and to begin to understand their meaning.
-- David R. Brower

#Rivers #Mind #Environmental

From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.
-- David Suzuki

#Years #Perspective #Environmental

Humans are now the most numerous mammal on the planet. There are more humans than rats or mice. Humans have a huge ecological footprint, magnified by their technology.
-- David Suzuki

#Technology #Environmental #Mammals

Salmon farming-the placement of large metal or mesh net cages in the ocean to grow fish-was pioneered in Norway in the 1960s. Since then, the industry has expanded to Scotland, Ireland, Canada, the US, and Chile, but is dominated by the same multinational corporations. Wherever it is practiced, net-cage salmon farming is controversial and raises serious environmental concerns.
-- David Suzuki

#Ocean #Scotland #Environmental

Each of us now has 2.27 kg (5 lbs) of plastic embedded in our bodies.
-- David Suzuki

#Environmental #Body #Embedded

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.
-- David Suzuki

#Environmental #Dollars #Protection

In an ecological perspective, in other words, there are few accidents or anomalies, only outcomes based on system structure and dynamics. Climate change and glittering malls, Calcuttan poverty and sybaritic wealth, biotic impoverishment and economic growth, militarism and terrorism, global domination and utter vulnerability are not different things but manifestations of a single system.
-- David W. Orr

#Perspective #Growth #Environmental