Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

John Carroll

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

Leila Janah

In terms of environmental impact, Samasource jobs are very green. Our product is human intelligence, and it's transported through the Internet rather than via carbon-intensive trucking, shipping, and warehousing.

Janeane Garofalo

Without liberals we wouldn't have unions. We wouldn't have environmental protections. We wouldn't have seat belts or birth control or the ACLU! Any of these things!

I don't think there are too many environmental concerns.

Because of depleting aquifers, overburdened reservoirs and other environmental problems, the era of increasing water supplies is probably over,

Harrison Ford

Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

Gregg Easterbrook

Though environmental orthodoxy holds that Third World deforestation is caused by rapacious clear-cutters and ruthless cattle barons, penniless peasants seeking fuel wood may be the greatest threat to our forests.

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

If there is new environmental information, we'll always take a look at it.

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

It's too ridiculous from an environmental point of view, but also from a technical point of view too.

Chris Wood

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

Paul Watson

Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever.

Mary Daly

We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us.

Pete Seeger

If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.

Pope Benedict XVI

Today the great gift of God's Creation is exposed to serious dangers and lifestyles which can degrade it. Environmental pollution is making particularly unsustainable the lives of the poor of the world ... we must pledge ourselves to take care of creation and to share its resources in solidarity.

Pope Benedict XVI

Nourishment is a factor which touches on the fundamental right to life.

Mike Farrell

What we are seeing here is environmental injustice

Joseph Hall

How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.

Marshall McLuhan

Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.

Marshall McLuhan

The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.

Paul Hawken

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.

Mike Patton

Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close.

Mark Bittman

If you embrace moderation, eat whole foods instead of junk, live within your physical, monetary, and environmental budget rather than constantly exceeding it, you will lose weight, tread more lightly on the planet, and gain satisfaction from these things.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Humankind has no option but to protect and live in harmony with its natural environment. However, it would be regrettable if in putting an end to revolutionary extremism, we should then come to environmental extremism. We should not forget that all extremes are the same.

Paul Stamets

Of all mushrooms commonly consumed, oyster mushrooms in the genus Pleurotus stand out as exceptional allies for improving human and environmental health. These mushrooms enjoy a terrific reputation as the easiest to cultivate, richly nutritious and medicinally supportive.

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.

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.

Norm Dicks

The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.

Nina Fedoroff

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.