When you meet a head of state, and you say, 'What is your most precious natural resource?' they will not say children… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Societies that depend on natural resources tend to have certain inherent problems. The limited concentration of wealth - whether from oil, coal,… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For conservation to succeed, we must embrace conservation models where people use their natural resources to create jobs, to grow economies, and… — David Jeremiah Barron Copy Share Image
Poland is quite a mediocre country in some regards. The only natural resource that we have, and with which we can compete,… — Donald Tusk Copy Share Image
America has everything most countries envy. A Constitution which is the treasure of mankind, a strong military, natural resources of every kind.… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
We treat a planet at crisis point as an externality that can be shunted into a future generation. We continue to act… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
Doing what's best for our kids means restoring balance, commonsense and conservation to the management of our natural resources. — Tony Evers Copy Share Image
Sustainable development: Meeting present needs without compromising the stock of natural resources remaining for future generations. In terms of buildings, it implies… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
The immediate need for education and practice in using our natural resources of soil, forest, water, wildlife and areas of inspirational beauty… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Devastation could arise insidiously, rather than suddenly, through unsustainable pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. Indeed, these pressures… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The kind of precision manufacturing epitomized in the armories, while it was important, was only a small share of the economy until… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable… — Veerappa Moily Copy Share Image
“Latin America is the region of open veins. Everything from the discovery until our times, has always been transmuted into European--or later--United… — Eduardo Hughes Galeano Copy Share Image
We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the… — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
A prime example of 'turning the other cheek' would be the United States allowing Canada to exist as a country. Sure, we… — Steven Crowder Copy Share Image
“Why is the Deliverator so equipped? Because people rely on him. He is a role model. This is America. People do whatever… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“The violence of hierarchy is the violence that the powerful use against the dispossessed to keep them subordinated. As an example, the… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
This process, this method necessary to man's survival and prosperity upon the earth, has often been derided as unduly or exclusively "materialistic."… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August 1914! The… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“Global climate change, over-consumption of natural resources, terror-fueled wars that led to xenophobia—these were our ancestors’ mistakes. Nations were starving to death,… — Courtney Praski Copy Share Image
We must act now and wake up to our moral obligations. The poor and vulnerable are members of God's family and are… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“When it gets down to it—talking trade balances here—once we’ve brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out,… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
...so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Bolivia historically made and still makes a living from natural resources. Before it was tin, but also silver, gold, and other minerals… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
A reduction in meat consumption is the most powerful single act that you can take to halt the destruction of our environment… — John Robbins Copy Share Image
Economic dynamism can be combined with environmental and social responsibility. High financial returns can go hand in hand with respect for human… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
“World class communities come in all shapes and sizes, they are not determined by geography, and/or natural resources so much as by… — Don Allen Holbrook Copy Share Image
As hundreds of millions of Chinese have improved their standard of living, this has put enormous pressure on natural resources, raw materials,… — Daniel Lubetzky Copy Share Image
I want to double down on our commitment to clean energy into New Mexico - that way we'll create good paying jobs… — Deb Haaland Copy Share Image
We live in a world filled with automobiles, highways of the mind, urban disasters, billions of people living on a tiny planet,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Until every individual feels personally responsible for the careful planning and the preservation of natural resources, the inexorable destruction will go on. — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
I'm proud of having been one of the first to recognize that states and the federal government have a duty to protect… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to. — William Weld Copy Share Image
We as governors, whether we're Republican or Democrat, we really believe that we know what's best for our people. And in Arizona,… — Jan Brewer Copy Share Image
Canada, by others in the global family, is, for some reason, taken seriously. They have about 30 million people. They have some… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
The paradigm of the development of natural resource-based industry - meatpacking, lard, timber, iron and coal, grain. Cincinnati's lard processing plants looked… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
Cutting down a forest for timber adds to GDP, but what we don't record is the loss to our wealth in terms… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
