Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture. — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
We'd like to get the fossil fuel industry on the back foot for a while, having to deal with us. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We should be increasing research and development into our fossil fuel program. — Tim Holden Copy Share Image
Society's dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress. — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
“The carpenter's daughter has won a name for herself, and deserved to win it” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel. — David Goodstein Copy Share Image
It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I think that the world is in the middle of a huge transition that we have to make to renewable energy. We… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
What I propose for the "life of a poet" goes against the grain of the fossil fuel monoculture. Maybe the most revolutionary… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I'm hopeful, but very,… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Any friend of fossil is a friend of mine... We’ve got to do everything we can to get people out of their… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
If aliens did visit us, I'd be embarrassed to tell them we still dig fossil fuels from the ground as a source… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
[On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Whenever someone says they believe the earth was created in 7 days, I grab a fossil and say, Fossil. And if they… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Simply from greening our energy system and eliminating fossil fuel pollution, we get so much healthier that the savings in health care… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
I believe, along with Pope Francis and almost all scientists, that climate change is threatening this planet in horrendous ways, and that… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I hold a vision of this blue green planet, safe and in balance. At the end of the Fossil Fuel Era, we… — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
Within 25 years, virtual reality meetings will be essentially transparent to being there in person. Once we can do this, the idea… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
“Quite recently the human descent theory has been stigmatized as the 'gorilla theory of human ancestry.' All this despite the fact that… — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
I understand we have to keep a significant amount of fossil fuel in the ground. I'm committed to that. But I'm not… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
That's how fossil hunting is: It takes over, like a hunger, and nothing else matters but what you find. And even when… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
If an aircraft is able to fly day and night without fuel, propelled only by solar energy, let no one claim that… — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
In nature the only source of energy is from the sun. So in ecological systems everything comes from the sun through the… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
All the different classes of beings which taken together make up the universe are, in the ideas of God who knows distinctly… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through radioactive materials and a steady increase in carbon… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems… — Adam Gollner Copy Share Image
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Wherever sufficiently numerous series of the remains of any given group, which has endured for a long space of time, are carefully… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Fossil bones and footsteps and ruined homes are the solid facts of history, but the surest hints, the most enduring signs, lie… — Jonathan Kingdon Copy Share Image
“No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossible to link… — Henry Gee Copy Share Image
There are fossils of seashells high in the Himalayas; what was and what is are different things. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Truly to appreciate what fossils are requires a leap of imagination he was not capable of making.” — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
Renewable energy is far more labor-intensive than fossil fuel production. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image