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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."
114
"I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance."
110
"If you pour more water into a river, it will not drown the fish."
97
"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."
87
"He plants trees to benefit another generation."
78
"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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"Modify the environmental radiation and you will change the course of evolution."
58
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
55
"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."
54
"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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"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."
53
"Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get."
52
"Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment."
52
"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."
51
"Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold."
51
"Conservation of energy also protects our environment."
48
"You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels."
46
"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."
45
"The atmosphere defines the environment of sound."
45
"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."
45
"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."
45
"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."
44
"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."
43
"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."
43
"The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies."
42
"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."
42
"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."
42
"Nobody can stop natural disaster, we are the cause and we are the remedy."
41
"Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades."
41
"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."
41
"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."
41
"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."
41
"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."
41
"Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given."
40
"I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children."
40
"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."
40
"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."
40
"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."
39
"The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree."
39
"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."
39
"The garden is an unemployed township-based man's cubicle."
39
"Nature is the supreme cradle of life, and must be protected and treated with the highest respect and care."
39
"The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large."
39
"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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