Environmental Quotes

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Any time a body goes outside the environmental conditions for which it developed it has to acclimate. — Vanna Bonta
A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly in our own… — Janine Benyus
Failing to curb the impact of climate change could damage the global economy on the scale of the Great Depression or the world wars by… — Nicholas Stern
At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about, we don't have environmental… — Keith Olbermann
Biology is a science of three dimensions. The first is the study of each species across all levels of biological organization, molecule to cell to… — E. O. Wilson
The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our… — Robert Ardrey
The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that story. — Josh Fox
With increasing fervor since the 1980s, sustainability has been the watchword of scientists, environmental activists, and indeed all those concerned about the complex, fragile systems… — Jamais Cascio
Shrimp farms are a scourge on the earth, frankly, from an environmental point of view. They pour huge amounts of pollutants into the ocean. They… — Jane Poynter
Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good. — Elon Musk
I rarely fly, for environmental reasons more than anything else. — Marcus Brigstocke
Environmental activism against the resource industry is widespread all over the world, but at the same time we have to realise that these are basic… — Anil Agarwal
The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise and 80 percent… — Stewart Udall
I always felt that if someone shot me, it would be great for the environmental movement, because they would make me a martyr. Our biggest… — David Suzuki
I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot be… — Mikhail Gorbachev
Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is dying, our soils… — Richard Lamm
Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance. — Keith Ellison
For the U.S., I think we should have a carbon tax, for environmental reasons. — Tyler Cowen
Transparency, accountability and sustainability have become the slogans of the market leaders. Companies carry out environmental and social audits to court the consumer, and even… — Noreena Hertz
It is all very well for 2% of the population to live in a monastic state of meatlessness while everyone else gorges their way towards… — Tristram Stuart

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