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Environment Quotes
"I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues."
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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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"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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"A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns."
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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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"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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"The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree."
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"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."
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"Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions."
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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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"Hollywood's got its own particular environment."
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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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"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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"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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"The waste of any resource is unnecessary and deplorable."
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"The garden is an unemployed township-based man's cubicle."
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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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"Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero."
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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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"Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe."
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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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"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."
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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."
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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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"The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment."
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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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"Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment."
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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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"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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"Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives."
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"I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that are against, and I think the reasoning for that varies depending on the person, but in some cases, they just don't believe in climate change - they think oil will last forever."
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"And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment."
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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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"Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs."
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"I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing."
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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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"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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"There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment."
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"In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal."
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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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"By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities."
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"Conservation is now a dead word."
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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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"The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous."
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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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"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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"The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's."
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"All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies."
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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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