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Environment Quotes
"A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization."
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"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 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."
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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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"I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance."
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"If you pour more water into a river, it will not drown the fish."
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"My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm."
50
"He plants trees to benefit another generation."
45
"Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get."
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"Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold."
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"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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"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."
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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."
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"Modify the environmental radiation and you will change the course of evolution."
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"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."
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"Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades."
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"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."
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"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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"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."
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"Nobody can stop natural disaster, we are the cause and we are the remedy."
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"Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment."
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"The atmosphere defines the environment of sound."
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"We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power of modern genetic knowledge to bring into being animals that suffer more."
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"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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"Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good."
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"The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous."
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"It takes a while to spoil a world, but it can be done."
29
"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."
29
"Nature is the supreme cradle of life, and must be protected and treated with the highest respect and care."
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"Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given."
28
"You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels."
28
"Conservation of energy also protects our environment."
28
"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."
28
"We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots."
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"The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies."
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"Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions."
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"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."
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"First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not the first step, to conserve oil."
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"In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal."
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"I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well get the upside for it and dedicate that upside to improving the environment in so many different ways."
27
"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."
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"If the natural environment is changed and the electromagnetic radiation levels increase, then it may cause illness and disease in humans."
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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."
26
"The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's."
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"The waste of any resource is unnecessary and deplorable."
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"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."
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"How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing. Why don't they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us?"
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