The whole concept of higher education is negated unless the sole criterion used to determine if students qualify is the grades they… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers movement,… — Michael E. Mann Copy Share Image
I was born in London, England during the great fog of 1952, but survived the coal-fueled air pollution with no ill effects… — Jack W. Szostak Copy Share Image
Thanks to David Attenborough and 'Blue Planet 2,' we've become aware of the damage to our oceans from plastic pollution. We now… — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
Still, year after year strong mercury rules fail in Washington under pressure from corporate interests. Why? Not because the risks of mercury… — Senator John Kerry Copy Share Image
I'm concerned that we don't address the water pollution problems in other countries. If we move forward and don't clean up the… — Erin Brockovich Copy Share Image
The fact that communities that are relatively powerless often are exposed to more dangerous pollution and the worst effects of climate change:… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Other ways of looking at the environmental or climate change stuff is to frame it in the context that it is simultaneously… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
What is acted out on the female body parallels the larger practices of domination, fragmentation, and conquest against the earth body, which… — Jane Caputi Copy Share Image
There are many who still do not believe that global warming is a problem at all. And it's no wonder: because they… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
You are not exposed to one chemical at a time, but a complex mixture of chemicals that changes day by day, hour… — Theo Colborn Copy Share Image
The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
My innovation message, specifically including energy, happened to be the same week that on Monday and Tuesday I announced the Breakthrough Energy… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
By 1990, the EPA had tallied up 32,645 sites of past chemical waste dumping in need of cleanup. Some of these are… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
“ One hundred and fifty years ago , the monster began, this country had become a place of industry. Factories grew on… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Like the effects of industrial pollution and the new system of global financial markets, the AIDS crisis is evidence of a world… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
“the pollution of American space...brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us, and perverse spiritual athletes and strident self-transcenders of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
That we have children coming into this world already polluted, at the same time we don't know what the effects of that… — Louise Slaughter Copy Share Image
The risk of pollution exists for the infosphere as it does for the atmosphere. Freedom of the infosphere should thus become a… — Hubert Burda Copy Share Image
I just am a clean air freak. I grew up in the woods. I worked in China for a bit and was… — Lynn Jurich Copy Share Image
If a person is found dead here, a postmorten will always reveal whether he has spent less than three weeks in the… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
I'll never understand why people somehow support pollution. It's completely irrational, and I don't get it. Somewhere along the line, they bought… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The solution to climate change is staring us in the face. It's energy policy. If we pursue a global clean-energy economy, we… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Nature is a numbers game. We need all the support we can get as our immune systems and health are under assault… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The pollution they produce, market, sell, and show to billions around the world is at its core contemptuous of the country that… — John Ratzenberger Copy Share Image
We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
Certainly people in empty places feel they have the right to do what they want to their property and don't necessarily see… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
I am going to be able to present to the incoming administration a country that is stronger. A federal government that is… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In tough times, some of us see protecting the climate as a luxury, but that's an outdated 20th-century worldview from a time… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
“A simple pecking order has always characterized mankind's relationship to waste: The wealthy throw out what they do not want, the poor… — Dan Fagin Copy Share Image
Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
Unless we change our food choices, nothing else matters. Because it is meat that is destroying most of our forests. It is… — Maneka Gandhi Copy Share Image
Carbon dioxide pollution is transforming the chemistry of the ocean, rapidly making the water more acidic. In decades, rising ocean acidity may… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
My wife's biggest fear is air pollution, living in London as we do. She's convinced that's the big problem. And my own… — Jon Richardson Copy Share Image
If there's one vital, but underappreciated, subject in the conversation about climate change, it's waste: how to define it, how to create… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image