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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."
49
"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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"I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance."
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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."
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"If you pour more water into a river, it will not drown the fish."
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"He plants trees to benefit another generation."
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"It takes a while to spoil a world, but it can be done."
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"Nobody can stop natural disaster, we are the cause and we are the remedy."
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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."
16
"Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold."
16
"The atmosphere defines the environment of sound."
15
"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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"Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good."
14
"The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's."
14
"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."
14
"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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"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."
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"The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous."
13
"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."
13
"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."
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"Conservation is now a dead word."
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"Nature is the supreme cradle of life, and must be protected and treated with the highest respect and care."
13
"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."
12
"Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment."
12
"Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment."
12
"Your environment and the associations you keep will affect how you think, feel, and act, and ultimately the results you get."
12
"The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large."
12
"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."
12
"I'm anti-tax, but I'm pro-carbon tax."
11
"Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades."
11
"As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot."
11
"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."
11
"I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children."
11
"I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with."
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"I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution."
11
"I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement."
11
"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."
11
"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."
11
"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."
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"Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term."
10
"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."
10
"We have increased conservation spending, enacted legislation that enables us to clean up and redevelop abandoned brownfields sites across the country, and implemented new clean water standards that will protect us from arsenic."
10
"Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities."
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"The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline."
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