Society's dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress. — Ban Ki-moon 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've got to alter our fossil fuel dependence and go to other energy sources. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
We should be increasing research and development into our fossil fuel program. — Tim Holden Copy Share Image
Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture. — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time. — David M. Raup 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
A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in… — Albert Wynn Copy Share Image
Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest… — Alana Beard Copy Share Image
It's time to transition beyond our fossil fuel addiction to a just economy based on green jobs, renewable energy, and local organic… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Nuclear power, once regarded as petroleum's natural heir, has become less and less attractive as its numerous drawbacks come to light. Coal,… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I am proud to work with the fossil fuel industry. I think it has historically done a horrible job of educating the… — Alex Epstein Copy Share Image
The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
The climate is nearing tipping points. Changes are beginning to appear and there is a potential for explosive changes, effects that would… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
If you say the world is totally dependent on oil in many parts of the world, coal and certainly natural gas, we… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
You can hardly convince a man of error in a life-time, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The distribution of species on islands and continents throughout the world is exactly what you'd expect if evolution was a fact. The… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We could do some household and neighborhood or town wind energy. But even this will run up eventually against the problem of… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“An evolutionary perspective of our place in the history of the earth reminds us that Homo sapiens sapiens has occupied the planet… — Richard E. Leakey Copy Share Image
“Rocks are not static and inert. They are constantly changing, shifting, and rearranging their form and location. They can be melted, deposited,… — Robert R. Coenraads Copy Share Image
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
There are about 250,000 different species of fossil plants and animals known . . In spite of this large quantity of information,… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
As many glaciers are melting and icy tundras are decaying, there's an unprecedented amount of woolly mammoth material that's becoming dislodged from… — Dario Robleto Copy Share Image
“Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the… — Honoré de Balzac 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
Let me say two things about the costs - one is that there are detailed studies that show this, this is what… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Renewable energy is far more labor-intensive than fossil fuel production. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
It is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution. — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image