Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ray Kurzweil

We only have to capture 1/10,000th of the solar energy landing on earth to completely satisfy all our energy needs.

Rick Riordan

I prefer to be the noisiest thing in my environment thank you very much.

The funny thing about sustainability is you gotta sustain it.

Will Durant

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Uma Thurman

We're in an environment where everyone gets compartmentalized very quickly.

Russell Baker

The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.

Richard M. Nixon

It is essential that we take steps to prevent chemical substances from becoming environmental hazards. Unless we develop better methods to assure adequate testing of chemicals, we will be inviting the environmental crisis of the future.

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.

While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require.

We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.

William Butler Yeats

Everything in nature is resurrection.

Winona LaDuke

The Lockean assumption that if we put our labor to it then it becomes our own is totally fallacious. We have to figure out how to leave things alone, and build an economic system that's not built on a linear model, but instead on a cyclical model, because that's the natural world - it's cyclical and not linear. That is going to take a lot of transformation.

Viola Spolin

If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn, and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.

Yvon Chouinard

Everything we personally own that’s made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we’re either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.

Wendell Berry

No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations, in death as well as in life. Some would say (and I am one of them) that we can live fully only by making ourselves answerable to the claims of eternity as to those of time.

Wendell Berry

In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.

Wendell Berry

If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.

Wendell Berry

You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough

Wendell Berry

The more artificial a human environment becomes, the more the word ‘natural’ becomes a term of value.

Warren Christopher

Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

Wangari Maathai

I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.

Kofi Annan

I often quote an African proverb that says: "The world is not ours, the earth is not ours, It's a treasure we hold in trust for future generations." And I often hope we will be worthy of that trust.

Kevin Kelly

Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.

Kevin Kelly

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

Raine Maida

I'm just interested in having a handle on my environment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lose yourself in nature and find peace

Robert E. Howard

I became a writer in spite of my environments.

Walt Whitman

Where the earth is, we are.

Ron Paul

The freer the market is and the more respect you have for private property, the better the environment is protected.

Susan Cain

Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is inherently painful; introversion is not.

Tony Blair

Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon

Simone Weil

The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.

Tony Curtis

I enjoy being recognized whatever environment I'm in.