Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Paulson

Every global concern - economic, environmental or security-related - can be addressed more effectively when the U.S. and China work together.

John McCain

Our nation's continued prosperity hinges on our ability to solve environmental problems and sustain the natural resources on which we all depend.

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.

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.

Environmental issues have always been important to me.

Environmental groups are not completely against dams. We approve of appropriate development.

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.

Gore Vidal

CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.

James Cromwell

The risks of transporting deadly nuclear waste, the environmental justice impacts and the long-term health effects of both these projects are untenable...We cannot afford to be silent on these important issues.

Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves.

Jim Fowler

Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left.

Jim Elliot

Birds are extremely valued as indicators of overall environmental health. If there's a problem in a wild bird population, it's indicative that something went wrong.

Jim Clyburn

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs

Jim Clyburn

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 nations economic viability.

Jeff Goodell

Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?

Hugo Chavez

We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.

These single-celled organisms are extremely sensitive to environmental changes.

The State Plan has become an excuse for sprawl and overdevelopment. If something is in the smart growth area, it gets less environmental protections and quicker permitting.

E. B. White

This was a fatally flawed environmental impact analysis.

You have to wonder how that's going to impact public policy. Right now . . . the single greatest issue we're losing on the environmental front is land-use decisions.

This year is kind of an aberration. It probably would be good for very specific investors with specific environmental screens in mind. But only a small portion of the portfolio.

When you mention Nancy Wittenberg in one sentence and environmental regulation in another, my eyebrows immediately raise up.

Paul Farmer

The toxic soup, as it has been called, is touching every square inch of the flooded areas, ... That issue of the environmental cleanup is one that we have not typically faced with other disasters. It's not just the structural integrity of the buildings, but it's the whole issue of contamination: contamination of buildings, contamination of yards.

We will never prevent environmental degradation until we stabilize our population. We simply must face up to this issue eventually, and it can't be too soon.

We do not know nearly enough at the present time about how genetic susceptibility and environmental exposure collaborate in disease.

In a world where there are even greater constraints to the availability of environmental resources, including food, that shortage of justice is going to become even more critical.

This is a unique program that rewards farmers and ranchers who are model conservationists and provides incentives for other producers to meet those same high standards of environmental performance.

David Attenborough

I'm especially involved, for example, in the Richmond Environmental Centre. That's one of those things you can hardly say no to.