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Environment Quotes
"We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible."
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"The second stream of material that is going to come out of this project is a programming environment and a set of programming tools where we really want to focus again on the needs of the newbie. This environment is going to have to be extremely user-friendly."
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"A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization."
58
"The other exception where we did not at all restore the place to its original condition is the Surrounded Islands. Before we installed our fabric, we had our workers remove 42 tons of garbage off the beaches of those islands. We never brought the garbage back."
55
"I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance."
50
"If you pour more water into a river, it will not drown the fish."
41
"My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm."
41
"Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get."
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"He plants trees to benefit another generation."
33
"Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold."
32
"Modify the environmental radiation and you will change the course of evolution."
28
"That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain."
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"Nobody can stop natural disaster, we are the cause and we are the remedy."
25
"It takes a while to spoil a world, but it can be done."
25
"The atmosphere defines the environment of sound."
23
"Who owned no property and never desired to since the earth was no man's but all men's, as light and air and weather were."
23
"Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker."
23
"The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies."
23
"We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe."
23
"Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up."
23
"Well, as I understand it, the main supporters are beer companies and the pharmaceutical companies. I'd like them to show me the dead bodies from marijuana. But they can't because there aren't any."
23
"Last night I watched the weather channel, as is my habit. Elsewhere in the world there are floods: roiling brown water, bloated cows floating by, survivors huddled on rooftops. Thousands have drowned. Global warming is held accountable: People must stop burning things up, it is said. Gasoline, oil, whole forests. But they won't stop. Greed and hunger lash them on, as usual."
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"There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it."
22
"We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted."
22
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
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"The waste of any resource is unnecessary and deplorable."
22
"And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over."
22
"Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good."
21
"Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades."
21
"I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history."
21
"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 have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture."
21
"The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous."
20
"My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this."
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"The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's."
20
"Conservation is now a dead word."
20
"If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network."
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"Nature is the supreme cradle of life, and must be protected and treated with the highest respect and care."
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"It is up to us as lawmakers to provide the resources and streamlined processes that will enable our federal forest managers to become the best possible steward of our lands."
18
"Conservation of energy also protects our environment."
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"Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment."
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"We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I've seen things you only read about and see on the news."
18
"I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution."
18
"Democrats have laid out a program that, if adopted, would make us independent of Middle Eastern oil in ten years, and create a new economy especially for those in rural America. Our program invests in clean energy alternatives and provides energy assistance for those in need."
18
"This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact."
17
"The fundamental problem for Republicans when it comes to the environment is that whatever you say is viewed through the prism of suspicion."
17
"We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves, lessen the burden on rural America, decrease human rights abuses, improve publish health, and help eliminate the most systematic animal abuse in history."
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"I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement."
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