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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."
212
"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."
202
"I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance."
174
"If you pour more water into a river, it will not drown the fish."
161
"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."
103
"My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm."
102
"We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should."
102
"He plants trees to benefit another generation."
98
"Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea."
91
"This is a tough environment, and it's tough for everybody."
83
"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."
79
"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."
76
"Modify the environmental radiation and you will change the course of evolution."
75
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
74
"Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get."
73
"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."
72
"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."
71
"Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be several times what it is for the car business."
71
"I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children."
70
"The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies."
69
"The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced."
69
"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."
68
"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."
66
"It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself."
66
"Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas."
66
"Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold."
66
"Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment."
65
"Nobody can stop natural disaster, we are the cause and we are the remedy."
64
"You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels."
64
"Conservation of energy also protects our environment."
64
"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."
64
"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."
63
"The atmosphere defines the environment of sound."
62
"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."
62
"When you talk to crews that went to Mir or have gone up to International Space Station, they say that you go through different phases of adaptation or getting used to the space environment."
62
"For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals."
61
"Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades."
61
"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."
61
"Nature is the supreme cradle of life, and must be protected and treated with the highest respect and care."
61
"Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given."
60
"It's obviously tricky to convert cellulose to a useful biofuel. I think actually the most efficient way to use cellulose is to burn it in a co-generation power plant. That will yield the most energy and that is something you can do today."
60
"The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large."
60
"I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues."
59
"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."
59
"The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part."
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