Environmental Quote by William Rathje Download Open image “Source Reduction is to garbage what preventive medicine is to health.” — William Rathje ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Environmental Garbage Health Medicine Nature Preventive medicine Reduction Source
Source reduction is, on the face it, perhaps the most appealing of all the possible approaches to solid-waste management. — William Rathje Copy Share Image
Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive. — Cedric Price Copy Share Image
The lowest-hanging fruit in preventative medicine is just to really focus on nutrition. — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
...This large and expensive stock of drugs will be unnecessary. By...doses of...medicines...multiplying...combining them properly, 20 to 30 articles, aided by the common resources of… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
“Medicine will shift from being heavily trafficked on the treatment side to the prevention side,” — David B. Agus Copy Share Image
You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source... Breathin'! — Walt Kelly Copy Share Image
As a doctor, as well as a mother and a world citizen, I wish to practice the ultimate form of preventive medicine by ridding… — Helen Caldicott Copy Share Image
Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick. — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake.... During a recent… — William Rathje Copy Share Image
Source reduction is, on the face it, perhaps the most appealing of all the possible approaches to solid-waste management. — William Rathje Copy Share Image
I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, experiencing amazing things, and I… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues. — Judith Rodin Copy Share Image
The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
Canada is the worst polluter in the world right now. There's absolutely no sign on a federal level that there's going to be any… — Owen Pallett Copy Share Image
Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is natures red-light warning against the model of… — Li Keqiang Copy Share Image
It is important to allow a broad debate on energy and climate. We must urgently explore realistic ways to address the different scientific, technical… — Lennart Bengtsson Copy Share Image
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented. — Dixie Lee Ray Copy Share Image
