The whole concept of higher education is negated unless the sole criterion used to determine if students qualify is the grades they… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Life isn't long enough to do all you could accomplish. And what a privilege even to be alive. In spite of all… — Tasha Tudor Copy Share Image
Pollution is everywhere, in that ancient Greek sense of miasma: guilt experienced as abject body fluid, moral pollution defining what kinds of… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
Ethanol has reduced our nation's dependence on imported energy, created thousands of jobs, reduced air pollution, and increased energy security. And renewable… — Lane Evans Copy Share Image
I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Cap and trade is an important tool in California's climate policy portfolio. It sends a price signal to industries to reduce their… — Kevin de Leon Copy Share Image
Future generations are going to look at the way we make toilet paper as one of the greatest excesses of our age.… — Allen Hershkowitz Copy Share Image
As a society, almost one 1 of 2 adults has a chronic disease of one form or another. And where we're spending… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Just a little rain falling all around The grass lifts its head to the heavenly sound Just a little rain, just a… — Malvina Reynolds Copy Share Image
Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution. Two years ago, Pfiesteria outbreaks connected with wastes from industrial chicken… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
Every day I get to 'Think' and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable… — Ginni Rometty Copy Share Image
Today, about 40 percent of America's carbon pollution comes from our power plants. There are no federal limits to the amount those… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
... laws governing pollution tend to move pollutants from one medium to another. So, for example, we scrub SO2 from power plants… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has got old-time loyalty, that's why people like him. He keeps his promises. He said he was going to take… — Don King Copy Share Image
Here in the United States, a study of nearly 700 women in California showed an increased risk of fetal death among babies… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
All these dismal things that are going on in the world - the isolation and the sickness and the governments and the… — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand.… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
If we take all this actions and if it turns out not be true, we have reduced pollution and have better ways… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Plastic debris in the ocean was thought to accumulate in big patches, mostly in subtropical gyres - big currents that converge in… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
I didn't like to stop playing for a second to bother with eating or going to the bathroom. I was a really… — Tig Notaro Copy Share Image
The favorite statistic is that the U.S. contains 6 to 7% of the world population but consumes more than half the world's… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
I am involved with so many charitable organizations. Lung Cancer because of my dad, Breast Cancer because as a woman and mother… — Lois Robbins Copy Share Image
“The solution to pollution is dilution. It is very logical that if a chemical is bothering you, you should increase the flow… — Dr. Sherry Rogers Copy Share Image
Unless we can act collectively, there would be no way to defend ourselves, no way to define or enforce property rights. We… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
“She recalled him as a forceful and witty speaker with a ready repartee and a penetrating voice. He had once, for example,… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
America should be leading the world in green and clean solutions, and human rights. We shouldn't be leading the world in wars… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
For some time I watch the coming of the night? Above is the glistening galaxy of childhood, now hidden in the Western… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
The "developed" nations had given to the "free market" the status of a god, and were sacrificing to it their farmers, farmlands,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is often difficult to definitively link a specific instance of disease to one particular cause, like water pollution. Even when tests… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea… — Aurelio Peccei Copy Share Image
Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
There will be no more danger, pollution or destruction, none of these things that we suffer from so much today. Everything will… — David Berg Copy Share Image
We know that to wage a nuclear war today, for example, would be a form of suicide; or that to pollute the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We can no longer afford to consider air and water common property, free to be abused by anyone without regard to the… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If we're going to prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes, we're going… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Our biggest challenges for the ocean and for the planet are problems of perception. People need to understand that species extinctions, habitat… — Edith Widder Copy Share Image
