Environment Quotes · Page 114

We should learn to live more with our climate and rely less on electricity to alter our climate.

— James Dyson

Until our leaders take seriously their responsibility to pass on a healthy and just world to the next generation, I will continue…

— Tim DeChristopher

We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment.

— Helmut Jahn

Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero…

— Nicolas Berggruen

I think about sustainability all the time, whether it's with fish or farmers in Eastern Oregon.

— Tom Douglas

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't driving around on a bus and having a campfire kind of adding to the environment…

— Will Smith

Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts…

— Barack Obama

The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.

— B. F. Skinner

We still need to learn how to talk about food and education, because they haven't been talked about together, really. Education depends…

— Alice Waters

I talk about race and culture, and that's what my fans respond to. If you grew up in an environment where race…

— Russell Peters

Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no…

— Al Gore

I feel that people who are new to punk/hardcore don't truly understand the music and the role it plays in people's lives…

— Jacob Bannon

If you really want to define civilization it should be a culture that doesn't destroy its environment. If you burn down the…

— Sting

For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and…

— Rachel Carson

I think it's really useful to create parameters. The term you use can be forwarded into something more like a grid, a…

— Kehinde Wiley

Based on German prototypes, green walls and roofs are a natural idea in Singapore's tropical environment, where mosses, ferns, philodendrons, orchids and…

— Alan Huffman

“Arabs & Garbage" Strange is the Arab story with garbage— who told them, who taught them to toss waste carelessly, wherever and…

— Louis Yako

“The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the…

— Ramez Naam

I have never believed we had to choose between either a clean and safe environment or a growing economy. Protecting the health…

— William J. Clinton

I don't believe in "average people" doing anything [about the climate]. People outght to support mitigation and adaptation within their own line…

— Bruce Bruce

The bigger the population gets, the more serious the problems become... We have to address the population issue. The United Nations, with…

— Gaylord Nelson

Reality, in its quantitative aspect, must be considered as a system of populations... The general study of the equilibria and dynamics of…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

“One of the least meaningful and most overused words in the English language is 'sustainability.' For most Americans, it means something like…

— David Owen

To the greatest extent possible, I try to make choices that involve the least amount of cruelty and environmental damage. I'm interested…

— Vesanto Melina

People who are making it to 100 live in environments where they are regularly nudged into physical activity.

— Dan Buettner

Clutter forces the brain to consume energy. Create uncluttered environments instead.

— Carmine Gallo

“You may take shelter under my branches and take of my fruit. But take only what you need as others will find…

— Lorin Morgan-Richards

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

— Brian Mulroney

The battle for conservation will go on endlessly. It is part of the universal battle between right and wrong.

— John Muir

The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic…

— Jim Hightower

Our precious heritage of natural and unspoiled beauty and unpolluted streams, once exhausted and destroyed, can never be replaced.

— Alvin O'Konski

We can both prevent asteroid impacts and address climate change. It's not either-or.

— Rusty Schweickart

We have to be responsible towards the environment when we celebrate our festivals.

— Shefali Zariwala

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the…

— Saint Basil

Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.

— Jackie Speier

My role is not to choose between safeguarding the economy and protecting the environment - it's about doing both.

— Geoff Hoon

I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment

— Richard Avedon

As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability.

— Jonas Gahr Store

Ensuring that we are good stewards of our environment begins with strong conservation efforts.

— Brian Mast

In both places [Paraguay and Newfoundland] people rise despite everything - both are pretty tough environments.

— John Gimlette