Climate Quote by Fatih Birol

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

— Jeff Goodell

What makes tar sands particularly odious is that the energy you get out in the end, per unit carbon dioxide, is poor. It's equivalent…

— James Hansen

The oil corporations spend a lot of money to get, say, the tar sands pipeline through, but nobody's - you know, there are definitely…

— Rebecca Solnit

Here in Canada, the people who oppose the tar sands most forcefully are Indigenous people living downstream from the tar sands. They are not…

— Naomi Klein

There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of…

— T. Boone Pickens

Passionate and forcefully argued, Tar Sands is a wake-up call not just to Canadians but to the wider world to take a serious look…

— Margaret MacMillan

And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Like the sands of time.

— Lady Antebellum

America needs a sensible, sustainable Iran policy that can meet U.S. security and economic interests, command international support and withstand the shifting Middle Eastern…

— Samantha Power

“You’d better get busy, though, buddy. The goddamn sands run out on you every time you turn around. I know what I’m talking about.…

— Anonymous

The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.

— Margaret Atwood

I have an hourglass figure too. Mine just contains more sands.

— Jhiess Krieg