The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students,… — Pete McCloskey Copy Share Image
Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The first and most important impact of climate change on human civilisation will be an acute and permanent crisis of food supply.… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Long dismissed as children's stories or 'myths' by Westerners, Australian Aboriginal stories have only recently begun to be taken seriously for what… — Karl-Erik Sveiby Copy Share Image
“When discharging industrial gas into the indoor environment in high altitude astronomy, we never wore protective breathing respirators that fed us oxygenated… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Great performers in all fields seem immune to what outsiders think about them. Their sense of themselves never depends on the feedback-positive… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
In the end, there is no ideal condition for creativity. What works for one person is useless for another. The only criterion… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“It seems madness to think that a society would rate marginal economic growth above a livable earth, but there you are. I… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Make fun of death. We are as dead as it gets, and we are fully aware of this joyous experience. We are… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
I don't care what town you're born in, what city, what country. If you're a child, you are curious about your environment.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You know, you take a little infant and you turn on the music mobile on their crib and you find that if… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
Let's set the existence-of-God issue aside for a later volume, and just stipulate that in some way, self-replicating organisms came into existence… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
We decided long ago that we didn't want Chipotle's success to be tied to the exploitation of animals, farmers, or the environment,… — Steve Ells Copy Share Image
The aim proposed here for any organization is for everybody to gain - stockholders, employees, suppliers, customers, community, the environment - over… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Well, I have my own article on where the heck is global warming?...The fact is that we can't account for the lack… — Kevin E. Trenberth Copy Share Image
Mike [Mann], can you delete an e-mails you may have had with Keith [Trenberth] re AR4? Keith will do likewise...Can you also… — Phil Jones Copy Share Image
Today the universal common good poses problems of world-wide dimensions, which cannot be adequately tackled or solved except by the efforts of… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
Oil depletion and climate change will create an entirely new context in which political struggles will be played out. Within that context,… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
I have a 16 year-old son, so I'm now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the things… — Brandi Chastain Copy Share Image
There is an environment where someone is always looking for someone to make an error. They're always looking not for the good… — Desiree Rogers Copy Share Image
Climate change has happened because of human behaviour, therefore it’s only natural it should be us, human beings, to address this issue.… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Protecting biodiversity is just as important and critical to the survival of mankind as stabilizing the climate. Species protection and climate are… — Klaus Topfer Copy Share Image
The way in which people talk about climate is just so wonky and so abstract and such a boys' club that it… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts… — Mark Dayton Copy Share Image
Early intervention programs enrich adverse family environments. The largest effects of the early intervention programs are on noncognitive traits. Now, what do… — James Heckman Copy Share Image
The one factor that you can't find on a spreadsheet is the willingness of the people in government to lead change, And… — Shai Agassi Copy Share Image
We used to have just one criterion and that was profit, and then another criterion was added - social welfare. Now we… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The more profit we make, the more stores we can open, the more donations we can make to our community, the more… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
My monumental netted sculptural environments move through time, animated by an ever-changing 'wind choreography,' making invisible air currents suddenly visible to the… — Janet Echelman Copy Share Image
I'm pro-choice, pro-affirmative action, pro-environment and pro-labor. I was either going to be the loneliest Republican in America or I was going… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
A lot of individuals out there carry a lot of proprietary information on their mobile devices, and they're not protected. It's a… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
The first job of a leader-at work or at home-is to inspire trust. It's to bring out the best in people by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I find littering very annoying. It's a minor but also a major thing: a society that litters is one that also has… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image