The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved? — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
Parking's expensive, so I walk or ride my bike, which is good because my girlfriend's getting her PhD as an environmental engineer. — Chaz Bundick Copy Share Image
We should always measure a government's environmental rhetoric against its environmental record — John Key Copy Share Image
The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a… — Norm Dicks Copy Share Image
The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people. — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
We used to think that energy and water would be the critical issues for the next century. Now we think water will… — Mostafa Kamal Tolba Copy Share Image
In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible… — Barry Commoner 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
And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of… — Daryl Hannah Copy Share Image
I urge President Trump to maintain American participation in the Paris Agreement - for the sake of our international leadership, economic competitiveness,… — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
As president, Nixon imposed wage and price controls, created the Environmental Protection Agency, initiated race-based hiring schemes, signed SALT I with the… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The capitalist system only allows us to heap up waste. I would like to propose that the trillions of money earmarked for… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
Better use of space, improving the insulation, getting more daylight into the buildings, reducing the energy consumption of the air conditioning and… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
But the improvements will happen faster and last longer if we can channel market forces, including innovation that's tailored to the needs… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I never thought I would hear Labour and Scottish Nationalist ministers in both Westminster and Holyrood publicly recognise the environmental benefits of… — Nicholas Soames Copy Share Image
The great successes of the modern environmental movement in the '60s and '70s had laid the seeds of their failure in the… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
The interests behind fracking are very powerful and they've managed to control the dialogue for a while, because they have forced people… — Joan Osborne Copy Share Image
The environmental catastrophes we're presently seeing are considered "normal" though they're horrific. Fracking has made drinking water flammable, families are dying from… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
Politicians had always viewed environmental issues as narrow things of no great political consequence. Sort of NIMBY issues. A big part of… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
It would be rash to conclude that, on balance, the environment of the globe as a whole is either deteriorating or improving,… — Gilbert F. White Copy Share Image
Business is a noble vocation, directed to producing wealth and improving the world. It can be a fruitful source of prosperity for… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the central question about [Eliot] Porter's work is about the relationship between science, aesthetics, and environmental politics. His brother, the painter… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
For me, architecture is an art the same as painting is an art or sculpture is an art. Yet, architecture moves a… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them. — G. Gordon Liddy Copy Share Image
Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I want Canada to be the country that is the best in the world at combining economic growth, social justice and environmental… — Stephane Dion Copy Share Image
If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too. — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
For every $1 advertisers spend advertising something healthful like apples, they spend $500 advertising junk food. — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Quite frankly, there is no answer to climate change without substantially, dramatically, increasing the amount of renewable energy in the global energy… — Christiana Figueres Copy Share Image
“The term 'Pharmacoenvironmentology' seeks to deal with the environmental impact of drugs given to humans and animals at therapeutic doses” — Syed Ziaur Rahman Copy Share Image
I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
Now our biggest environmental problems come from our own actions, our own choices, rather than pollution produced by big business. — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
Whether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven. — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence. — John Abizaid Copy Share Image
There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
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