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Environment Quotes
"The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment."
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"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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"I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues."
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"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."
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"Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment."
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"When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at."
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"The waste of any resource is unnecessary and deplorable."
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"Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions."
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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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"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."
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"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 only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous."
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"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."
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"For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals."
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"I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution."
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"Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country."
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"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."
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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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"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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"Democrats have laid out a program that, if adopted, would make us independent of Middle Eastern oil in ten years, and create a new economy especially for those in rural America. Our program invests in clean energy alternatives and provides energy assistance for those in need."
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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."
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"I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations."
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"The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away."
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"I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted."
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"Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development."
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"There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems."
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"I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement."
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"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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"Hollywood's got its own particular environment."
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"Everyone thrives most in his or her own unique environment."
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"Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan."
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"In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal."
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"This place can't be heaven, it doesn't have the right vibe."
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"It takes a while to spoil a world, but it can be done."
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"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."
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"But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability."
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"More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2002."
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"A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns."
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"Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal."
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"Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to."
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"Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment."
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"The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman."
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"So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence."
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"It would be great some day to have astronauts in a rover on Mars. But just about anyone except an oil company executive would say its more important to have 50 million solar powered vehicles in the United States."
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"You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition."
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"The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's."
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"It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do."
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"High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment."
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