Environment Quotes

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In today's integrated world economy, ... eradicating poverty may contribute as much to U.S. security as eradicating terrorism. — Lester R. Brown
How do commercial interests usually protect themselves from liability claims? Through insurance. In fact, in our society, the litmus test for safety is insurance. You… — David Suzuki
US academic institutions are being bought via funding by biotechnology firms which exert a vice-like grip on the US government. — Ignacio Chapela
We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich… — Paul Brooks
To be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which he… — William O. Douglas
If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished or extinguished. Without… — Thomas Berry
However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I believe that national… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more. — Bryan Procter
Now that I've got kids, it's become really important for me on the health front to try to buy as much organic produce as possible. — Jamie Oliver
Exposure to some pesticides during infancy, even at very low levels, can lead to serious life-long consequences if the pesticides disrupt hormone-driven developmental processes. — Charles Benbrook
We've found that frogs are counting the number of chemicals in the water. If you expose them to two chemicals, there's a slight delay in… — Tyrone Hayes
How is it that we can entrust the solutions for the problems that confront our country today to those who are complicit in their creation? — Cynthia McKinney
The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the… — Jim Hightower
All corporate-owned, publicly-traded media is our first and most immediate enemy. — Michael Ruppert
I do not recall ever receiving a suggestion, let alone an order, from the White House as to how I should make a regulatory decision.… — Russell E. Train
Pollution should never be the price of prosperity. — Al Gore
We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves. — Arnold J. Toynbee
Given continued high rates of population increase, all environmental victories are temporary. — Thomas W. Horton
Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's answer… — William Irwin Thompson
Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to emphasize is the vast difference… — Barry Commoner

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