Famous Quotes & Sayings

In America, you complain about job losses because of China, but here, we carry all of the environmental costs.

Gary Graham

By law we have to have so much money in reserves, ... (Illinois Environmental Protection Agency) was saying our reserves weren't enough.

John Muir

Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you.

Michael Shermer

Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.

Michael Shermer

Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.

Theodore Roosevelt

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.

Marcus Brigstocke

I rarely fly, for environmental reasons more than anything else.

Michele Bachmann

Carbon dioxide is natural, it is not harmful, it is a part of Earth's lifecycle. And yet we're being told that we have to reduce this natural substance, reduce the American standard of living, to create an arbitrary reduction in something that is naturally occurring in Earth.

We want to annoy the whenever we can. The best thing we can do with environmentalists is shoot them.

Michael E. Mann

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.

Ramez Naam

That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu - using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get businesses to invest in preserving and improving natural systems.

You don't have the problems of impacts on private property. You don't have the environmental impacts these reservoirs are already in place.

Jacque Fresco

If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.

Jacque Fresco

Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.

Henry David Thoreau

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

James Fallows

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

Kyrsten Sinema

Im an environmentalist; I recycle.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

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

Maurice Strong

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

Matthew Simmons

We need to find three Saudi Arabias just to offset [the] decline.

any investment in our province around uranium is subject to all of our own environmental and occupational health and safety regulations and law.

Any number of environmental problems could come from this, as big as it is, ... You don't know until you're in the middle of it.

Any sort of environmental impact that does come up, we need to take seriously and address.

Right now, we've got a project that improves the operation of the facility, allows us to stay competitive and ties us to a tighter environmental performance.

PPL has made some very big environmental initiatives, It would be a big mistake for PPL to think they've done enough.

Protection of environmental resources is as much of a long-term investment in California's future as is the construction of public works that provide water or improve transportation or schools.

Property owners should not be punished for being good environmental stewards, yet that is exactly what the ESA does.

The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.

John Carroll

There're environmental laws. This should have been stopped long ago, another six months of this is intolerable.

Stewart Brand

Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster.

The funny thing about sustainability is you gotta sustain it.

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.

Environmental issues have always been important to me.