"I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations."

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"I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations."

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"An environment of infinite economic expansion is unsustainable in a world of finite resources."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Environment, Change, City, Time, Observation

"Environmental cleanliness begins with each individual desire to be clean."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"Environmental radiation research is the rent I pay for living on this planet."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if no other way, we can see the wild an reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"Earth is the holiest place in the Universe, loving the earth, and loving life is the way to generate positive vibrations."

Amit Ray, Indian Author

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"I could do a lot of stuff's but the problem is not here it's the place where I am, the crowd which has surrounded and many other factors."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"Even if the climate change is not real, its funds are real."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into fishing fleets that are going to exacerbate the problem by over-fishing is not the way to preserve the underlying asset."

Money

"I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations."

Environment

"Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway."

Difference

"We must, from here on in, all go down the same path... There may not be another chance."

Chance

"Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs."

Force

"The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development."

Development

"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 its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following."

Leadership

"I was with Ted Turner when he came to see Kofi Annan - the Secretary-General of the UN - to announce his decision to put $1 billion to the service of UN projects and programs."

Decision-Making

"In addition to this, they already have a fuel cell car on the road in Japan. It is subsidized from within the corporation because they are still at a high cost."

Car

"We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits."

Management