Environment Quotes · Page 82

The framework of a symphony must be so strong that it forces you to follow it, regardless of the environment and circumstances.

— Jean Sibelius

The sooner the US puts a cap on our dangerous carbon pollution, the sooner we can create a new generation of clean…

— Carol Browner

Climate change is already upon us, and its effects are being felt with increasing intensity.

— Rohini Nilekani

Climate change is happening, and humans are significant contributors, and that raises some really important policy questions.

— Mark Walport

People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional.

— Warren Buffett

We humans still have a long way to go with learning to live harmoniously with our environment and its wildlife.

— Steve Irwin

Climate change...is, simply, the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family.

— Ban Ki-moon

“It is well known that humans cannot survive long term in any environment that is not on the surface of planet Earth.”

— Steven Magee

When I started to do work outside of surfing, commercials where I needed to lead, I came out of my shell more,…

— Taylor Steele

If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will…

— Tom Peters

Responding to the challenge of climate change is the ultimate political test for our generation...Our package not only responds to this challenge,…

— Jose Manuel Barroso

Forests, beyond offering us their plainly utilitarian wealth, have to perform vast physiological functions in the great economy of nature, by contributing…

— Ferdinand von Mueller

The only thing we're interested in as Greens is making sure that we are protecting Canada from an imminent threat and that…

— Elizabeth May

It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has…

— Louis Bacon

When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent…

— Brian Mulroney

“[Conservation] Barring that, just yell at people randomly to stop killing whales. It could catch on. Really. ("Would you like fries with…

— Christopher Moore

“As a yogi, you are an environmentalist because you recognize that the rivers flowing through the valleys and those flowing through your…

— Anonymous

“The destructive impulse with respect to nature all too often has psychological causes that go beyond the greed for material resource or…

— Robert Pogue Harrison

Stupid religion makes stupid beliefs, stupid leaders make stupid rules, stupid environment makes stupid health, stupid companions makes stupid behaviour, stupid movies…

— Anonymous

As part of our ongoing series of reports on the environment, 'America Goes Green,' we take on the question that can make…

— Brian Williams

The press is going to have to learn anew that it's possible to work in an environment that is not so toxic…

— Ted Gup

Go to the farmers market and buy food there. You'll get something that's delicious. It's discouraging that this seems like such an…

— Alice Waters

“The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number…

— John Muir

My view is there will be problems and bad people as long as the earth exists, and since we're moving into a…

— William J. Clinton

The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural…

— Franz Boas

Poor people don't drive the toxic form of economic 'growth' that is destroying our environment.

— Clive Lewis

Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.

— Bill Nye

I'm helping the environment this holiday season by immediately recycling your Christmas card.

— Anonymous

Now that I've got kids, it's become really important for me on the health front to try to buy as much organic…

— Jamie Oliver

For years, agency officials said that atrazine in drinking water posed almost no risk to humans or the environment.

— Charles Duhigg

I've been in the studio environment since I was young, so I know what to expect.

— Lil Skies

The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out…

— Ahmed Zaki Yamani

“Bicycles are way cooler than motorcycles. You get exercise and peace and quiet, and you're not destroying the environment.”

— Brent Crawford

By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic.

— James Lovelock

On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen.

— Kofi Annan

Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure

— Simon Barnes

Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It's not arguing a point. It's creating an environment.

— Claudia Rankine

I think achieving a higher fiscal stability is also a very important condition for restoring an environment which is conducive to growth.

— Lucas Papademos

Being socially responsible is one of Gucci's core values, and we will continue to strive to do better for the environment and…

— Marco Bizzarri

I didn't just grow up in one environment, so it was easy for me, as a child, just to imitate and just…

— Clifton Collins, Jr