Hydrologists have demonstrated that the meanderings of a creek are a necessary part of the hydrologic functioning. The flood plain belongs to… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
It is essential that we take steps to prevent chemical substances from becoming environmental hazards. Unless we develop better methods to assure… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Over the past several decades, a growing number of investors have been choosing to put their money in funds that screen companies… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
There's more to being an environmentalist than occasionally signing an online petition and mailing your check to the Sierra Club. Really the… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
We've abnegated the Kyoto treaty, we've instituted a voluntary program that's obviously not been working, we've taken every effort to excise references… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
No conscious person can read Peter D'Adamo's works without considering much more thoughtfully how their genetic inheritance relates to their needs for… — Jeffrey Bland Copy Share Image
The violence inherent in our systems and structures of power is a part of who we are - our thoughts, sensibilities, imaginations,… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
The environmental issues we face today are complex and span many knowledge domains. This undergraduate degree programme in Environmental Studies will nurture… — Tan Chorh Chuan Copy Share Image
The pace of consumption, waste and environmental change has so stretched the planet's capacity that our contemporary lifestyle, unsustainable as it is,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Industrial vomit...fills our skies and seas. Pesticides and herbicides filter into our foods. Twisted automobile carcasses, aluminum cans, non-returnable glass bottles and… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Man is suddenly becoming aware that by an ill-considered exploitation of nature he risks destroying it and becoming in his turn the… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
When people denounced [former Iranian president Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad for rejecting and criminalizing homosexuality, it should be remembered that was true of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
So to the best we can, what we do is focus on creating value for others, and how do we do that?… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
Can we disregard the growing phenomenon of "environmental refugees", people who are forced by the degradation of their natural habitat to forsake… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
There is little history in the study of nature, and there is little nature in the study of history. I want to… — Donald Worster Copy Share Image
If your DNA profile puts you at a higher risk of developing obesity, that doesn't mean it's your fate. You can take… — David Agus Copy Share Image
Environmental justice, for those of you who may not be familiar with the term, goes something like this: no community should be… — Majora Carter Copy Share Image
We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu - using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
We are a retailer - we are a merchant. That is our business. But we look for places to make a positive… — Doug McMillon Copy Share Image
Successfully reframing the climate debate in the United States from one based on environmental values to one based on health values...holds great… — George Mason Copy Share Image
We are close to a time when all of humankind will envision a global agenda that encompasses a kind of Global Marshall… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
It is economically irrational to exclude large environmental costs from the balance sheets of the producers and the consumers. You are only… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
Music feels so environmental to me, especially the process of working with synths or mixing. I started thinking about music as a… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
If you think that we've overregulated in the environmental space what I can show you is that we have tripled the amount… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There must be limits, somewhere, to the human footprint on this earth. When the whole of the world is reduced to nothing… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
If you, as CEO, have recognized an approach as being the right one, you have to pursue it consistently, even if some… — Norbert Reithofer Copy Share Image
Today when the public thinks of the products of science it is likely to think about environmental problems, an unproductive armament industry,… — Leo Kadanoff Copy Share Image
Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
While in some cases the damage already done may well be irreversible, in many other cases it can still be halted. It… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
No institutions in modern society are better equipped to catalyze the necessary transition to a sustainable world than colleges and universities. They… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
This is an opportunity, I believe, for the Port and all of us to make a bold statement about how oil companies… — Ed Murray Copy Share Image
Environmental laws give power to the people. Republicans can huff, puff and scream about what they consider strict regulations, but when they… — Daniel Kammen Copy Share Image
Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it. You can only mar it. The ages have been at work… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The sustainable alternative is one in which smaller and smaller regions produce more and more of the goods they need closer to… — John B. Cobb Copy Share Image
To trace the history of a river or a raindrop is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image