Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donella Meadows

A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.

Ansel Adams

Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price

Alice Waters

Eating is an environmental act.

David Letterman

I'm an environmentalist. Most of my jokes are recycled.

Zac Goldsmith

'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.

I think it's an overall trend that environmental standards and safety standards are getting tighter and tighter. When you have an event like this (Firestone recall), that raises sensitivity about getting the safest vehicle possible.

Nina Totenberg

He might well win his case. It is something of a bellwether (for environmental cases).

I thought the prisoners wouldn't want to sort through the rubbish. But they were happy to do it because of the environmental benefits.

Tyler Cowen

For the U.S., I think we should have a carbon tax, for environmental reasons.

Anne Wojcicki

It's worth knowing more about the complicated environmental and genetic factors that could explain why traumatic brain injuries lead to long-term disabilities in some people and not in others.

We need to have a whole system (of parks) working together instead of a patchwork of individual parks. The plan needs to work together with other village goals, such as open space, trails and other environmental issues.

Joe Barton

I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.

There are a lot of wonderful people in Texas, people who have a social, political, and environmental conscience.

When we understand more about the genes and the environmental factors that influence someone's risk, I think you will be better able to predict who is at highest risk and then target your prevention strategies at those high-risk individuals.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

The planet's environmental woes tend to be overlooked as we scramble for the latest high-tech gizmos - and conveniently ignore their energy consumption.

Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.

Stephen Jay Gould

There is no gene "for" such unambiguous bits of morphology as your left kneecap or your fingernail. [...] Hundreds of genes contribute to the building of most body parts and their action is channeled through a kaleidoscopic series of environmental influences: embryonic and postnatal, internal and external. Parts are not translated genes, and selection doesn't even work directly on parts.

There is some openings on it. We know some product has come out but not the extent that poses a great environmental threat at this point in time.

E. P. Thompson

We need to do an environmental impact statement.

B. F. Skinner

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

Katie Lee

My message is: Never, never give up on environmental issues. Keep pounding at the door.

James Johnston

I think Landco will come up with something that's very palatable in an environmental sense, but to me any form of development is out of the question.

Carl Jung

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

Holly Robinson Peete

I'm not a doctor or scientist. I'm just a mom. But I do think there's a genetic predisposition, and there are environmental triggers. I feel like that combination, in my child's case, is what resulted in autism.

Peter Singer

If people are prepared to eat locally and seasonally, then they probably do pretty well in terms of environmental impact.

You'll have increased traffic, lots of light, increased pollution, and all of it 24 hours a day. All of that has to be looked at as a potential environmental consequence.

We have a number of conservation and environmental groups that want to take our farm program spending and shift it over to some kind of conservation payment or green payment.

Wars, conflicts, instability and the poor environmental management of the previous regime have left their scars on the Iraqi people and the Iraqi environment,

We are an environmental organization. We do anything we can to lessen our impact.

Zhou Shengxian

The main problems are, firstly, the inappropriate location of the plants; secondly, their failure to follow environmental guidelines; and thirdly, that more than 100 of these plants pose an environmental risk.

John Densmore

I've been a longtime supporter of all sorts of environmental groups.

Garrett Hardin

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

Joni Mitchell

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.