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
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
Many problems that challenge us today can be traced back to a profound tension between what is good and desirable for society… — Martin Nowak 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
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
“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
“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
Many environmentalists have failed to recognize that the preservation of quiet areas, places off-limits to noise pollution, should probably be a number-one… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
“Arabs & Garbage" Strange is the Arab story with garbage— who told them, who taught them to toss waste carelessly, wherever and… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
I'd been a child during the 1960s when women burned their bras and hundreds of thousands gathered in protests against the Vietnam… — Lynn Hill Copy Share Image
Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe. And if you poled your flatboat in that river you might fight… — Harlan Ellison 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
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
Above all, we should question the consumer ethic, which uses up non-renewable resources, creates inequality and injustice, generates pollution, destroys other species… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
The title says it all: 'Little House on a Small Planet.' With population, pollution and environmental pressures weighing heavily upon us, our… — Wanda Urbanska 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
We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
Nature is a numbers game. We need all the support we can get as our immune systems and health are under assault… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
The solution to climate change is staring us in the face. It's energy policy. If we pursue a global clean-energy economy, we… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The pollution they produce, market, sell, and show to billions around the world is at its core contemptuous of the country that… — John Ratzenberger Copy Share Image
I just am a clean air freak. I grew up in the woods. I worked in China for a bit and was… — Lynn Jurich Copy Share Image
I'll never understand why people somehow support pollution. It's completely irrational, and I don't get it. Somewhere along the line, they bought… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
If a person is found dead here, a postmorten will always reveal whether he has spent less than three weeks in the… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
Unless we change our food choices, nothing else matters. Because it is meat that is destroying most of our forests. It is… — Maneka Gandhi Copy Share Image
Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
Carbon dioxide pollution is transforming the chemistry of the ocean, rapidly making the water more acidic. In decades, rising ocean acidity may… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
“A simple pecking order has always characterized mankind's relationship to waste: The wealthy throw out what they do not want, the poor… — Dan Fagin Copy Share Image
In tough times, some of us see protecting the climate as a luxury, but that's an outdated 20th-century worldview from a time… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
I am going to be able to present to the incoming administration a country that is stronger. A federal government that is… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Certainly people in empty places feel they have the right to do what they want to their property and don't necessarily see… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
As president, I'll set bold goals to combat climate change: generate enough renewable energy to power every home in America within 10… — Hillary Clinton 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
When all is said and done, cheap gas is an illusion, because our reliance on gas creates a whole series of costs… — James Surowiecki 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
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
While they [on Cuba] were eating a healthy and sustainable diet and had no pollution over a period of years these health… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image