Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Joni Mitchell

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

Zhou Shengxian

The main problems are, firstly, the inappropriate location of the plants; secondly, their failure to follow environmental guidelines; and thirdly, that more than 100 of these plants pose an environmental risk.

The (Department of Environmental Quality) was present at the readings, ... Now what we need to do is to put together a plan for remediation, probably within the next 30 to 45 days.

Henry Paulson

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

The evidence is stacking up that indicates it is not environmental,

Matthew Yglesias

The environmental movement's focus on the Keystone XL pipeline issue really used to baffle me.

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.

John Densmore

I've been a longtime supporter of all sorts of environmental groups.

Garrett Hardin

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

Joseph Hall

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

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality

Maria Montessori

Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.

E. B. White

This was a fatally flawed environmental impact analysis.

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.

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.

Mike Patton

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

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.