Environmental Quotes
1118 Environmental quotes by 683 unique authors
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Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's…
— Adam Schiff
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It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to…
— Samuel Wilson
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There's more to being an environmentalist than occasionally signing an online petition and mailing your check to the Sierra Club. Really the most effective environmental…
— Alex Steffen
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Hopelessly uneconomic on any substantial scale, since it requires a conventional power back-up for when the wind stops blowing, forests of wind turbines are rightly…
— Nigel Lawson
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If someday rockets should open the gates to space, then we must be oriented as to its environmental conditions and their possible biological effects. To…
— Hubertus Strughold
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In a mucked up lovely river, I cast my little fly. I look at that river and smell it And it makes me want to…
— Greg Brown
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I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free, Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea.
— Sidney Lanier
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We have ignored this cancer for so long that the romance of environmental concern is already fading in the shadow of the grim realities of…
— Edmund Muskie
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The rapids beat below the boat Deep in the heart of the land Feel the pulse of the river in the pulse at your throat…
— Lynn Culbreath Noel
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From its fountains In the mountains, Its rills and its gills; Through moss and through brake, It runs and it creeps For awhile till it…
— Robert Southey
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I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever, At the bottom of my dream.
— Henry David Thoreau
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So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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He wondered what kind of blueprint beavers had for creating such a structure-or did they simply start aimlessly weaving stuff together until they had a…
— Patrick F. McManus
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DURING THE PAST TWO TO THREE DECADES, we have acquired substantial evidence that most chronic diseases in America can be partially attributed to bad nutrition.…
— T. Colin Campbell
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Of all mushrooms commonly consumed, oyster mushrooms in the genus Pleurotus stand out as exceptional allies for improving human and environmental health. These mushrooms enjoy…
— Paul Stamets
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A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind…
— Antoine Predock
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We have enough coal to last for 250 years, yet coal also prevents an environmental challenge.
— George W. Bush
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I think environmentalists do no service to their cause by taking fundamentalist stances. I am not defending corporate India's track record, but for many environmental…
— Jairam Ramesh
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
— Barry Commoner
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I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by…
— Howard Gardner
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Armstrong, sitting in the commander's seat, spacesuit on, helmet on, plugged into electrical and environmental umbilical's, is the man who is not only a machine…
— Norman Mailer
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I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest.
— Tony Hayward
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This is probably the biggest environmental disaster we have ever faced in this country. It is certainly the biggest oil spill and we are responding…
— Carol Browner
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The Nile Project is the performing side of an effort that also includes education in music and environmental issues, raising awareness of the entire Nile…
— Jon Pareles
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