Environment Quotes · Page 103

When the last tree is cut and the last fish killed, the last river poisoned, then you will see that you can't…

— John May

Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he…

— John von Neumann

Among the laundry list of threats to our world, climate change more often than not makes these challenges worse.

— Patricia Espinosa

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

— Anonymous

Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place.

— Norman Foster

Be nice to the environment. Be nice to animals. Be nice to people. If you do that, you will leave a mark…

— Enock Maregesi

Bold clean energy action is needed to stave off a climate hostile to human life.

— Ray Metcalfe

Shifting towards low-carbon energy systems can avert climate catastrophe while creating new opportunities for investment, growth, and employment.

— Kofi Annan

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a…

— Anonymous

“Raped at age nine by a relative and pregnant at 14 Oprah Winfrey, like many others have experienced the wickedness and brutality…

— Oche Otorkpa

They [politicians] have defined the war simply in terms of the detonation of explosives. When you look at the broader picture, America…

— Michael Scheuer

I will fight special interests in Washington who exploit Native, rural, and low income communities for the purpose of fracking and drilling…

— Deb Haaland

I think it's obvious why someone wouldn't personally want to see these words on their feed, but I'm also concerned about the…

— Chrissy Teigen

These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care…

— Bernie Sanders

What I do as a director is really create a safe environment that everyone can feel very comfortable in and experiment within…

— Paul Feig

For too long, opponents of climate change have hid behind the argument that the U.S. cannot afford to cut carbon pollution because…

— Brian Deese

The Zhuangzi is very good on telling us how the nonhuman-made world can enter into who we are more deeply than at…

— David Wong

At least 90 percent of my work is in situ. For me, it's not only to work with the architecture and space,…

— Daniel Buren

Science, pure science, is leading us in a sense astray. Leading us astray with the idea that everybody has got to have…

— Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

I am asserting that those who love the wilderness should not be wholly deprived of it, that while the reduction of the…

— Aldo Leopold

The solution for rising up kids in the income distributionlies is in creating better childhood environments for kids growing up, especially in…

— Raj Chetty

“While the government is "studying" and funding and organizing its Big Thought, nothing is being done. But the citizen who is willing…

— Wendell Berry

The scientists are virtually screaming from the rooftops now. The debate is over! There's no longer any debate in the scientific community…

— Al Gore

This world is not the same to all people. Each one lives in his little domain…Peace and harmony may reign in one…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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

Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.

— Gus Hall

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

— Lucas Papademos

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

— Claudia Rankine

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

— Simon Barnes

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

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

— Brent Crawford

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

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

— Lil Skies

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

— Charles Duhigg

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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Bill Nye

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

— Franz Boas