Environmental Quotes
1118 Environmental quotes by 683 unique authors
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Those who fail to see that population growth and climate change are two sides of the same coin are either ignorant or hiding from the…
— James Lovelock
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A united humanity will be able to confront the many troubling problems of the present time: from the menace of terrorism to the humiliating poverty…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake…
— Matt Gonzalez
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Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started,…
— Matt Gonzalez
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When the study of the household (ecology) and the management of the household (economics) can be merged, and when ethics can be extended to include…
— Eugene Odum
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I find the parallels between how some investors refuse to recognise the trends and our reaction to some of our environmental challenges very powerful. There…
— Jeremy Grantham
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The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death…
— Jeremy Grantham
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Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.
— Hans Blix
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Casein [the main protein found in dairy], in fact, is the most 'relevant' chemical carcinogen ever identified; its cancer-producin g effects occur in animals at…
— T. Colin Campbell
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There has been a banking crisis, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, a social crisis, a geostrategic crisis and an environmental crisis. That's considerable in…
— Jean-Francois Cope
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Robert Zubrin’s masterful study…makes for riveting reading. . a cautionary tale of what happens when powerful, unprincipled elites are not only alienated from the mass…
— Steven W. Mosher
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The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.
— Russell Baker
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By seeing the otherness in that which is most unfamiliar, we can learn to see it too in that which at first seemed merely ordinary.…
— William Cronon
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Our overriding environmental challenge tonight is the worldwide problem of climate change, global warming, the gathering crisis that requires worldwide action.
— William J. Clinton
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[D]id you really expect fairness on the environmental issue? For a swathe of reporters, this is not a matter of empirical reporting; it's a matter…
— Andrew Sullivan
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What is the environmental platform of the Republican party? I don't know either.
— Lindsey Graham
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Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.
— James Fallows
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There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.
— James Fallows
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Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.
— David Suzuki
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I've been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children's charities over the years.
— Martina Navratilova
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In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.
— Ed Begley, Jr.
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
— Ed Begley, Jr.
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People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other…
— Ed Begley, Jr.
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I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not…
— Paul Hawken
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