“It is the elegance of nature that creates even the appearance of simplicity... It is not respectable to say that an organism… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
In the political environment that exists today, the opposition research of the Obama campaign is looking for anything they can use to… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
... if you know a person really well, the truth is you can't guess how they'll act in an altogether new sort… — Elizabeth Ferrars Copy Share Image
And finally, to all Canadians: Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world. We can be a better… — Jack Layton Copy Share Image
All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
Being often with many leading politicians, I feel frustrated that they do not listen. They already know. They fully subscribed to the… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
I was born into a Christian household, in a parsonage in fact, so I grew up in sort of a missionary atmosphere… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
There is a great sense of community within the Montessori classroom, where children of differing ages work together in an atmosphere of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Whether we fail or not, we shall not be kept from continuing our mission by those who claim it can't be done.… — Louis Bromfield Copy Share Image
So the only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“It is wrong to draw a sharp line in one's imagination between the "nature" present on the Rocky Mountain front and that… — Ted Steinberg Copy Share Image
“You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Let me tell you about our planet. Earth is four-and-a-half-billion-years-old. There's been… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“Look, just producing energy cleanly doesn’t clean up the environment. Energy is the fuel of consumption, and rampant consumption is what drives… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
When you have half of Caironese in slums, when you don't have clean water, when you don't have a sewer system, when… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
The most outstanding characteristic of Eastern civilization is to know contentment, whereas that of Western civilization is not to know contentment. Contented… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her husband's sight which… — Ouida Copy Share Image
We must recognize that the goal of a cleaner environment will not be achieved by rhetoric or moral dedication alone. It will… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The 21st century will be the Asian century. This also means that Asians will be expected to provide greater leadership to solve… — Kishore Mahbubani Copy Share Image
“Economic activities that diminish the quality of the environment and increase pollution harm the communities that are supposed to benefit. Conversely, contact… — Jane Caro Copy Share Image
I was pretty lucky, I went to a really great school. I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and… — Zoe Kravitz Copy Share Image
“Consider this: all the ants on the planet, taken together, have a biomass greater than that of humans. Ants have been incredibly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think we have reached a stage now where we need to find solutions to economic injustice in the same place and… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Many of our partners are here and this is where the world's expertise on environment and the wider sustainability agenda often and… — Achim Steiner Copy Share Image
When we talk about big issues like climate justice, of course that involves global and statewide implications. But it's also how we… — Michelle Wu Copy Share Image
The greenhouse crisis is the bill coming due for the Industrial Revolution. It's not an accident. It's the logical outcome of our… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of curves and… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
I think making things that aren't necessarily shiny, happy feelings, putting them in that environment is sometimes an easy way to deal… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
There's always the danger that there are so damn many things that a playwright can examine in this society of ours -… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Ecology also teaches that all life on earth can be viewed as a competition among species for the solar energy captured by… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If you wait through long, cold hours in the November woods with a bow in your hands hoping a buck will show… — Donald Trump, Jr Copy Share Image
“But you can't just leave it at that!" said Anathema, pushing forward. "Think of all things you could do! Good things." "Like… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My biggest fear is that we [Unilever company] at one point in time will not be able to attract the best and… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
I won't deny the polemical elements in my work, but they are less in the service of attempting to reform human behavior… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“I am suggesting here that organisms have a built-I capability of adapting to their environment. I am suggesting that to the extent… — Lee Spetner Copy Share Image
You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
“This past year - if you'd have tried, you'd have seen even more clearly the futility of trying to change the world… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Hopefully, there isn't any adjustment at all in terms of what I am doing and what I'm preparing. Obviously, there's going to… — Beth Mowins Copy Share Image
Is the divine presence a Republican? Or is He/She/It running an inter-galactic fossil fuel conglomerate?...whatever the explanation may be, the Paraclete appears… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image