Environment Quotes · Page 107

If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?

— Scott Pelley

Climate change is the biggest threat to our chances of winning the fight against hunger.

— Winnie Byanyima

Look at climate change; don't put your head in the sand. Understand that it is going to have profound effects on our…

— Hillary Clinton

I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his…

— James Russell Lowell

We are comfortable in this environment. Why not make ourselves comfortable over there?.

— Celine Dion

Any time you go into a new environment, you have to learn a new system, there are adjustments you have to make.

— Baron Davis

My administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change.

— George W. Bush

A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.

— Kevin Bacon

I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy…

— Peter Gabriel

A fully integrated culture would be like the dinosaurs, which had to perish because they were no longer able to adapt themselves…

— Carroll Quigley

As a teenager, my father took me to the shows at the Architectural Association and to places like Milton Keynes back when…

— Thomas Heatherwick

Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social…

— Paul Hawken

We can heal ourselves by changing the environment inside our bodies. Potentially harmful invaders, then, will have nowhere to grow and will…

— Robert O. Young

You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for…

— Martin Sheen

What I try to do is to create an environment that is not about the results. It's about development, and an understanding…

— Jesse Marsch

Conservation of any endangered species must begin with stringent efforts to protect its natural habitat by the enforcement of rigid legislation against…

— Dian Fossey

I've always had an irrational fear - it's really not an irrational fear, I think - whenever I've been standing at a…

— Steve Rushin

People of conscience in our leadership in Washington have been scared off by the right and the fossil fuel lobbies. They won't…

— James Cameron

“The retreat of the Arctic sea ice, the warming of the oceans, the rapid shrinking of the glaciers, the redistribution of species,…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

There is a spiritual side to our connection with the planet. And in this material world, that's anathema. It is somewhat worrying.…

— Bob Brown

I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own culture around us to a large…

— David Sylvian

“The investigation described in the subsequent pages bears close relation to three sciences. It was approached by the author from the standpoint…

— Anonymous

“The media have indeed informed the public about threats to our air, water and food. Ever since 1962, when Rachel Carson published…

— David Suzuki

Students of the psychedelic realm know that one's expectations are a powerful determinant of the direction, content, and outcome of the experience.…

— Rick Doblin

It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.

— Robert D. Kaplan

Here to create an environment of love, live with passion, and make our most exciting dreams come true

— Marcel Wanders

Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves.

— Sheena Iyengar

The important things for a mom is that her kids are watched, and are safe and it's a good care environment.

— Gary Myers

“Having mastered our environment, let us now master ourselves and choose our own destiny.”

— C.S. Lewis

I grew up in a modern business environment and did not experience the kind of prejudice that my mother and grandfather experienced.

— Lewis Schiff

Any city has to give some thought to its ambition and brand in order to set sustainability goals.

— Ginni Rometty

We become different people and we adapt to our environments, but that doesn't have anything to do with being creative.

— Paula Scher

If we once, and for so long, lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so…

— John Zerzan

If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today.

— Stephen Girard

Regeneration of forest can be only achieved in an one birth of Human Life and passed to other generations in a one…

— Suranga Navinda Pathirana

...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral…

— Aldo Leopold

“The way you treat your environment and your planet is exactly the way you deserve to be treated.”

— Muhammad Nusair

Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.

— Theodore Roosevelt

There's degradation of the environment. But the real issue is the degradation of one's inner environment.

— Frederick Lenz

Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs .

— Aldo Leopold