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Environment Quotes by Michael Pollan
- The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.
- A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.
- The environment is not just around you, it's passing through you.
- The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The important thing is…
- Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community.
- We're supposed to show people how the world is, to give them the tools they need to make good decisions as citizens or consumers. Depending…
- Cheap food is an illusion. There is no such thing as cheap food. The real cost of the food is paid somewhere. And if it…
- The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc.,…
- Organic Oreos are not a health food. When Coca-Cola begins selling organic Coke, as it surely will, the company will have struck a blow for…
More Environment Quotes
- The simplest things are often the truest. — Richard Bach
- We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible… — M H Abrams
- An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. — David Attenborough
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural… — David Attenborough
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon
- As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved… — Diane Ackerman
- Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. — Richard Bach
- Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. — Francis Bacon
- We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. — Francis Bacon