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.

Environmental issues have always been important to me.

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

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.

We feel like some of these environmental regulations being put on farmers are just too extreme.

Paul Watson

Usually, environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience.

Paul Watson

The environmental movement doesn't have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventually, there will be open war.

Paul Watson

I've won some awards. 'Time' magazine designated me as one of the environmental heroes of the 20th century. Oh, and I've got some honorary citizenships, like from the Conch Republic of the Florida Keys. But the one thing I am proud of is I didn't get the Chevron environmental award. Never did get that one.

Sophie Turner

I think that you form the way that you act from others around you; it's a kind of an environmental thing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

E. B. White

This was a fatally flawed environmental impact analysis.

It will be a national environmental facility. There's nothing like it in our country.

It's an accelerated process; we're worried that they will go too fast and they won't look hard enough (for potential environmental impacts).

It's still frustrating to us that a national environmental organization that's never seen it or knows nothing about it is trying to preserve a piece of land that's got oil wells all over it.

Chris Wood

It's the single greatest environmental threat that little is being done about.

Jeff Goodell

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

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.

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.

Hugo Chavez

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

Gore Vidal

CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.