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Environment Quotes
"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."
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"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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"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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"The waste of any resource is unnecessary and deplorable."
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"Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions."
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"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."
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"The garden is an unemployed township-based man's cubicle."
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"A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns."
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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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"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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"Conservation is now a dead word."
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"In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal."
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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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"So, when it comes to eating healthy, it's just doing the right thing. And it's not something you have to do 365 days a year, but I think it's something you have to do 25 days a month. Let's put it that way."
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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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"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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"There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement."
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"Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established."
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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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"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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"Hollywood's got its own particular 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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"The human body resonates at the same frequency as Mother Earth. So instead of only focusing on trying to save the earth, which operates in congruence to our vibrations, I think it is more important to be one with each other. If you really want to remedy the earth, we have to mend mankind. And to unite mankind, we heal the Earth. That is the only way. Mother Earth will exist with or without us. Yet if she is sick, it is because mankind is sick and separated. And if our vibrations are bad, she reacts to it, as do all living creatures."
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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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"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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"If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees."
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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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"I am convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive."
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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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"You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition."
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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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"I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement."
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"The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture."
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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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"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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"Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs."
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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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"There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external 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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"The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's."
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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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"By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities."
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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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"We are in the process of finding out what filling billions of acres with huge wind turbines does to the global environment."
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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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"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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