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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."
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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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"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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"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."
13
"Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good."
12
"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."
12
"I'm anti-tax, but I'm pro-carbon tax."
9
"Nobody can stop natural disaster, we are the cause and we are the remedy."
9
"The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies."
9
"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."
8
"The waste of any resource is unnecessary and deplorable."
8
"If the natural environment is changed and the electromagnetic radiation levels increase, then it may cause illness and disease in humans."
8
"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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"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."
7
"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."
7
"The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous."
7
"Conservation of energy also protects our environment."
7
"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."
7
"The atmosphere defines the environment of sound."
7
"When you live in a networked environment, it's possible to separate data from applications."
7
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
7
"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."
7
"Modify the environmental radiation and you will change the course of evolution."
7
"A great thing about these trees is that they are excellent for cleaning, both groundwater, and of course, air."
7
"Conservation is now a dead word."
7
"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."
7
"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."
6
"The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved."
6
"Everyone thrives most in his or her own unique environment."
6
"We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice."
6
"Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal."
6
"The environmental benefits of hydrogen are also outstanding. When used as an energy source, hydrogen produces no emissions besides water. Zero polluting emissions, an amazing advance over the current sources of energy that we use."
6
"Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs."
6
"Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections."
6
"Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades."
6
"I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place."
6
"Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment."
6
"We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment."
6
"The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues."
6
"The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's."
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"I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement."
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