Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Russell Baker

The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.

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

Walt Whitman

Where the earth is, we are.

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.

While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require.

We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.

Richard M. Nixon

It is essential that we take steps to prevent chemical substances from becoming environmental hazards. Unless we develop better methods to assure adequate testing of chemicals, we will be inviting the environmental crisis of the future.

Warren Christopher

Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

W. S. Merwin

I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags.

Jeff Goodell

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