Environment Quotes · Page 104

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

— Clive Lewis

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

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

— Warren Buffett

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

— Mark Walport

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

— Rohini Nilekani

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

— Carol Browner

I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense... symbolic of themselves.…

— Richard Avedon

What the food industry should be talking about? Climate change. It should be talking about the industrialization of food. It should be…

— Dominique Crenn

Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it's like to be stepped on, I know what…

— Arthur Ashe

I think now, with our technology, our capacity to grow food, our ability to stop raping the Earth and destroying the ecology…

— Harry Belafonte

“Living on through loss seems by contrast as bad or worse; it means experiencing environmental deterioration, steady decline in human well-being, and…

— Frederick Buell

Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are…

— Marshall McLuhan

With VR, you are directing in a 360-degree environment. The biggest challenge is that the viewer can look anywhere. They might look…

— Doug Liman

“Right! Right! 'Stead of which, over here, they shit in the water until it's dangerous to drink, then make a fucking fortune…

— John Brunner

If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its…

— Leon Trotsky

On a grander scale, when a society segregates itself, the consequences affect the economy, the emotions, and the ecology. That's one reason…

— Joel Salatin

“To build a road is so much simpler than to think of what the country really needs. A roadless marsh is seemingly…

— Aldo Leopold

One of the defining things about my career on camera is I like to play different characters. That gets difficult to do.…

— Diedrich Bader

I could never allow [tax] cuts that devastate education for our children, that pollute our environment, that end the guarantee of health…

— William J. Clinton

God then makes people whom he puts right in the middle of all this loaded creation. Commanding them to care for creation,…

— Rob Bell

“Sustainability is a new idea to many people, and many find it hard to understand. But all over the world there are…

— Anonymous

Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside…

— Richard Wright

Climate change disasters will displace more and more. Those who are most exposed are the poorest.

— Jan Egeland

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

— Jean Sibelius

creation, like vengeance, is God's. It is dangerous when man tampers with it.

— Marjorie Benton Cooke

We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.

— Norbert Wiener

Orange is the color of the sun. It is vital and a good color generally, indicating thoughtfulness and consideration of others.

— Edgar Cayce

We’re the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.'

— Jay Inslee

We've had to be innovative, in terms of reaching the customer, and that's all been about making it an experiential shopping environment.

— Sara Davies

What I try to do is give each actor an environment in which they can do their best work.

— Curtis Hanson

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the…

— Arthur Erickson

We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning …

— Barack Obama

The brain is an important gateway by which the social environment impacts on people's health through the mind.

— Michael Marmot

If you're allowing the political environment to infect your relationships, it's time to bury the hatchets.

— Eric Weinstein

“The more alien that you make your environment, the more likely it is that you will be sick.”

— Steven Magee

Anything we can do to educate the younger generation about conservation of energy is great.

— Wayne Messam

“Everyone has the power to make a difference, to themselves and others, and to our world.”

— Yasmin Davar

We must empower educators to provide the best learning environment possible for students.

— Jamaal Bowman