Famous Quotes & Sayings

Let's recreate the equivalent of the Met Ball in Europe and, rather than for the museum, give the money to environmental causes.

Lorena really is the environmental candidate. She's somebody I've worked with on environmental issues for the past six years, on state and local issues, and she has proven her leadership.

Many of the Florida environmental groups have come to see us, and they wanted this approach.

Many of the environmental modifications of interest to women are so fundamental that I expect them to improve the shopping experience and sales potential for all consumers, regardless of gender.

G. Gordon Liddy

Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.

Ed Rendell

There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.

Dick Cheney

Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.

Noam Chomsky

Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard Nixon, who would be something of a dangerous radical in today's political scene.

Marlee Matlin

The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.

Environmental scientists in Canada said it was impossible for me to get to the Pole in 2004... I said 'no,' it's still OK, and I can still get there, and I did.

Tristram Stuart

It is all very well for 2% of the population to live in a monastic state of meatlessness while everyone else gorges their way towards environmental meltdown or the nearest heart clinic. Vegetarianism is good for the willing minority, but not much use as a campaign tool.

Ali Smith

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.

Mike Love

One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.'

This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades.

Chris Stewart

There is no better example of the overreach of government than in environmental law.

We are remaining exclusively focused on the oceans. We do not get into social issues, we do not even get into environmental records.

Alex Steffen

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.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

On our crowded planet there are no longer any internal affairs!

I was surprised to see how much the mainstream environmental movement hates the ELF.

Jostein Gaarder

No day is alike - I do many other things, and I'm very active in the environmental movement.

Maurice Strong

One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.

John O'Neill

We are honored to have been selected to participate in this important project. We view this opportunity as an endorsement of our proven environmental management practices at our facility.

John Key

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.

Woody Harrelson

Bur I think all the environmental groups have to focus on at least one main issue together. That's the move we need to do right now.

Because of the type of water it was, there won't be any kind of environmental impact.

China is bearing the environmental cost for much of the world because China is the factory of the world.

From an environmental perspective, we should be responsible for our own waste.

I have a pretty positive view of environmental activism, but I didn't know much about the ELF. A lot of people make documentaries because they have something they want to say, but I make them because there's something I want to explore.

Zhou Shengxian

If in the past, in terms of environmental protection, we were very passive ... now there has been a U-turn.

Gisele Bundchen

I feel privileged to be a U.N. ambassador. It gives me an opportunity to use my voice to help raise awareness about important social and environmental issues.

I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

Edward Norton

The "environmental movement" is becoming an economic movement, is joining the social justice movement, is becoming a sustainability movement. It's leaving behind the "People's Needs versus Nature's Needs" conflict in favor of making the case for environmental health as the essential underpinning of prosperous and stable human civilization.

Joel Salatin

It really disturbs me that the environmental movement has been co-opted by creation-worshippers instead of being encouraged by the Creator-worshippers.