The environmental agenda before the Congress includes laws to deal with water pollution, pesticide hazards, ocean dumping, excessive noise, careless land development… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Most of the damage suffered by the ocean up until now has been caused by local insults - overfishing, pollution, and destruction… — Nancy Knowlton Copy Share Image
The Chinese have figured out that they have a giant environmental problem. Folks in Beijing, some days, literally can't breathe. Over a… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation… — Rose George Copy Share Image
I die a hundred deaths each day. I die when I see hungry people. Or people who're sad. I die when I… — Rekha Copy Share Image
Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
We could replace people with fossil fuels, have higher and higher levels of industrialization, of agriculture, of production, without thinking of the… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
If there is no cost to be paid for the indiscriminate dumping of pollution into the earth's atmosphere, then it should be… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The insecticides kill the black flies, but also destroy much of the food chain for the bird, fish, and animal life which… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
We are too much in the machine world today. Even here in Tuva we've got every year more and more cars and… — Albert Kuvezin Copy Share Image
“The place was a truck stop town. Large 18 wheelers lined the sidewalks and cafes. Giant diesel motors roaring their exhaust into… — Jaime Allison Parker Copy Share Image
If you visit American city, You will find it very pretty. Just two things of which you must beware: Don't drink the… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Nuclear man is the man who realizes that his creative powers hold the potential for self-destruction. He sees that in this nuclear… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“The pollution of the outward environment we are witnessing is only the mirror and the consequence of the inward environment, to which… — Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Transportation is responsible for half of our state's air pollution, and many suffer as a result. Children are more likely to develop… — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
The potential savings in the national budgets from the elimination of police, criminal courts, standing armies, pollution control agencies, drug enforcement, and… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
Since the bicycle makes little demand on material or energy resources, contributes little to pollution, makes a positive contribution to health and… — S. S. Wilson Copy Share Image
I was always writing about the connection between man and nature. I grew up in a neighborhood that was right on the… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
As we gain satisfaction from artificial substitutes for nature we forget that there is no known substitute for Nature, the real thing… — Michael J Cohen Copy Share Image
We still have too much air and water pollution and we still need to work to reduce it. But we also need… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
And yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet - because climate change is not… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Subsidies for the oil, gas and coal industries are projected to cost taxpayers more than $135 billion in the coming decade. At… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“And so Mort came at last to the river Ankh, greatest of rivers. Even before it entered the city, it was slow… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Farmers and agricultural authorities must take account of climate change and the prospect of increased rainfall in designing strategies to mitigate the… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
If there's one vital, but underappreciated, subject in the conversation about climate change, it's waste: how to define it, how to create… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
My wife's biggest fear is air pollution, living in London as we do. She's convinced that's the big problem. And my own… — Jon Richardson Copy Share Image
Air quality is already a problem outside of cars: More than 80 percent of people living in cities where pollution is tracked… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
I still don't understand why we need a gigantic airport sprawled across South East England. What does it gain us, compared with… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Limitation of scope, however, could represent a profound advantage from an ecological point of view. The sun, the wind and the earth… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
We have lots of other problems with plastic in our oceans. There are five different big gyres of plastic out in the… — Ed Begley, Jr Copy Share Image
I know Teddy Kennedy had fun at the Democratic convention when he said that I said that trees and vegetation caused 80… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We're still putting 110 million tons of man-made global pollution into the air every single day as if the sky is an… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Recent studies have considered the detection of a spaceship visiting our parish of the galaxy. In my opinion that last thought should… — Nigel Calder Copy Share Image
“I asked the feedlot manager why they didn't just spray the liquefied manure on neighboring farms. The farmers don't want it, he… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
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