environmental
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘environmental’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment.” -Jim Jeffords
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“It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.” -John Coleman
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“There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it.” -Thomas R. Cech
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“Just as there’s garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.” -Patrick Buchanan
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“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
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“Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn’t even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.” -Gaylord Nelson
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“Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.” -Peter DeFazio
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“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
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“It is extremely important to me that the social and environmental issues associated with the production of fashion clothing are addressed.” -Bonnie Wright
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“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
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“I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.” -Bernard Sanders
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“There is no ‘need’ for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet.” -Gary L. Francione
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“There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems including global warming, proliferation of plastics, urban sprawl, and the loss of biodiversity than by treaties, top-down regulations, and other approaches offered by big governments and their dependents.” -Preston Manning
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“No one does a better, cleaner, or environmental friendlier, than the United States, when it comes to drilling for oil, gas, coal, oil refineries and fish friendly hydroelectric.” -David Pratt
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“I hope that in future Congresses there will reemerge a recognition that climate change is a reality, that our policies to meet our energy needs must also deal responsibly with environmental issues, including the damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions.” -Jeff Bingaman
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“Time after time we’re told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards – giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.” -Richard Trumka
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“Furthermore, both Pennsylvania and New Jersey Departments of Environmental Protection have evaluated the sediment to be dredged and also found it to be not toxic.” -Robert Brady
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“I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.” -Mackenzie Crook
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“There has been a banking crisis, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, a social crisis, a geostrategic crisis and an environmental crisis. That’s considerable in a country that’s used to being protected.” -Jean-Francois Cope
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“Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation – not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.” -Michael E. Mann
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“Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.” -Dennis Weaver
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“Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.” -Samuel Wilson
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“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
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“Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.” -Bill Nye
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“I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.” -Howard Gardner
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“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
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“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
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“We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.” -Mac Thornberry
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“If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.” -Nina Fedoroff
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“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
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“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
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“Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation.” -Sherwood Boehlert
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“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
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“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
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“Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.” -Anna Lindh
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“So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.” -Godfrey Reggio
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“I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.” -Kevin Richardson
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“I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.” -Harri Holkeri
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“This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades.” -Jerry Costello
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“Fracking is doable if there’s full disclosure of all chemicals used. Secondly, science dictates the policy rather than politics. Third, there’s collaboration between environmental groups and the natural gas industry.” -Bill Richardson
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“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
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“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
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“I’ve always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I’m willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place, we’ll have to-in order to increase another place, I’m willing to do that.” -Judd Gregg
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“I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn’t pose a serious environmental issue.” -John Hickenlooper
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“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…
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“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
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“My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.” -Sue Kelly
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“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
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“I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.” -Paul Hawken
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“We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year.” -Brian Mulroney
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“I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.” -Jay Inslee
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“More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries.” -Gro Harlem Brundtland
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“Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy.” -Fred Upton
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“In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.” -Bjorn Lomborg
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“Like I said, I’m more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.” -Hans Blix
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“The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don’t tend to support big agencies.” -Anita Roddick
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“There’s so many issues tied to the meat industry. I mean, social, environmental, humanitarian – all of them. I know that when I’m eating that I’m not hurting the planet, I’m not hurting other people on this planet, I’m not hurting animals… and I’m not hurting nature.” -Maggie Q
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“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
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“Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state.” -Matt Gonzalez
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“Unless action is taken soon – unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period – we will lose the treasure of California’s open space and environmental beauty.” -Adam Schiff
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“I don’t think it’s too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don’t wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you’re 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can’t be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.” -Jello Biafra
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“By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans’ services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities.” -Dan Lipinski
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“There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn’t take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems.” -Edward James Olmos
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“I’d say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind.” -Corey Feldman
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“These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.” -Galen Rowell
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“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
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“New Zealand needs to balance its environmental responsibilities with its economic opportunities, because the risk is that if you don’t do that – and you want to lead the world – then you might end up getting unintended consequences.” -John Key
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“Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.” -Maurice Strong
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“I really believe in the environmental movement right now – it only takes a little effort to make a big difference.” -Brooke Burke
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“Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?” -Jeff Goodell
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“The position I took at the time was that we hadn’t really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.” -Jeremy Rifkin
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“The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company’s bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.” -Daniel Goleman
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“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
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“I’m a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.” -David Frum
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“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
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“To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.” -Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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“In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.” -Wangari Maathai
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“I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.” -Al Gore
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“I don’t see this planet being… they’re talking about how they’re turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it’s already too late.” -Ace Frehley
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“Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.” -James Buchan
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“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
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“Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.” -Leonardo DiCaprio
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“Toxins love to get you while you’re young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it’s mature and comparatively fixed.” -Jeffrey Kluger
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“If China is helping its domestic industries charge an artificially low price for solar panels and other environmental goods, then China is violating international trade rules that it agreed to when it became a member of the World Trade Organization.” -Ron Wyden
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“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
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“Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.” -Christopher Alexander
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“I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke ‘fat cats’ until they purr with pleasure. I’m completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.” -Vince…
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“We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation.” -Andrew Weil
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“Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.” -Garrett Hardin
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“If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.” -Ronald Reagan
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“I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
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“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
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“The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters… and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.” -Jacques Yves Cousteau
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“There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.” -Noam Chomsky
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“Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.” -Will Durant
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“I’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.” -Jimmy Carter
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“Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.” -Marshall McLuhan
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“When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behavior that compromises the lives of millions of people around the world can truly change.” -Simon Mainwaring
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“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
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“I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn’t realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.” -Vivienne Westwood
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“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…
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“This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don’t subsidize, we don’t want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.” -Joe Biden
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“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
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“I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.” -William Hague
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“I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.” -Roger Tory Peterson
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“A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world’s nations toward saving the climate.” -Donella Meadows
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“The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.” -Norm Dicks
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“Under the Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.” -Melissa Bean
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“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
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“Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.” -Michael Burgess
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“We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.” -Christopher Dodd
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“In today’s world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate – and even thrive – in an environmentally-friendly manner.” -Olympia Snowe
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“Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.” -Dixie Lee Ray
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“Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?” -Gale Norton
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“Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years.” -Marsha Blackburn
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“Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.” -Will Steger
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“Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality its left.” -John Ray
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“Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.” -James Inhofe
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“I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry.” -Frank Murkowski
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“If you violate Nature’s laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.” -Luther Burbank
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“The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.” -Richard Rogers
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“I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.” -Pat Buckley
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“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
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“Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.” -Victoria Principal
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“Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.” -Thomas Malthus
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“For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I’m doing the right thing by the animals.” -Alexandra Paul
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“People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.” -Michael Pollan
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“When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.” -Joseph Wood Krutch
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“Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.” -Aldo Leopold
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“You will die but the carbon will not its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.” -Jacob Bronowski
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“If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.” -James Lovelock
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“People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame – and only one – themselves.” -Robert Collier
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“I don’t think we’re going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only we’ve got to translate that into what’s in it for us.” -Jim Fowler
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“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
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“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
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“Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.” -Paul Tsongas
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“I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.” -Ted Turner
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“The environment is everything that isn’t me.” -Albert Einstein
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“We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.” -Margaret Mead
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“Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.” -John Muir
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“Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.” -Ansel Adams
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“I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?” -Robert Redford
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“I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.” -Isaac Bashevis Singer
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“They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.” -Sitting Bull
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“By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.” -Aeschylus
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