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Environment Quotes
"The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman."
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"I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach."
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"There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement."
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"The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other."
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"It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do."
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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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"By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth."
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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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"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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"We are also working on the restoration of salmon runs, and we are doing a new process of mass marking with these fish so we can tell the wild fish from the hatchery fish."
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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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"Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms."
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"It is up to us as lawmakers to provide the resources and streamlined processes that will enable our federal forest managers to become the best possible steward of our lands."
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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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"We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil."
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"Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil."
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"For the first two weeks of filming, I remember bristling at some of the occurrences on the set, none of which directly involved me. Then I surrendered to the environment, to Michael's method, and became much happier, even though no one knew what to expect."
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"High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment."
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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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"The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making."
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"The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved."
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"Everyone thrives most in his or her own unique environment."
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"The fundamental problem for Republicans when it comes to the environment is that whatever you say is viewed through the prism of suspicion."
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"I remember the guest stars who came, they were always trying to find a new plot for their characters because they wanted to stay. It was really a great working environment."
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"And I remember how proud I was to put on my training jersey and go out on the field. Making it back to that environment was for me my greatest moment, because somebody had told me I couldn't do it and I never gave up on myself, the game and my teammates."
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"By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while."
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"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."
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"Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult to survive in the wild."
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"This place can't be heaven, it doesn't have the right vibe."
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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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"Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means."
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"It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment."
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"Your environment and the associations you keep will affect how you think, feel, and act, and ultimately the results you get."
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"In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself."
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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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"About 60 percent of the oil consumed daily by Americans is used for transportation, and about 45 percent is used for passenger cars and light trucks."
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"A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment."
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"I would go to them and I would explain this is the price of going forward. We're going to move ahead in all these other areas. We're moving ahead in tax reform and GST, we are moving ahead on trade, but this will not be done at the cost of the environment."
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"Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it."
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"We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group."
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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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"It takes a while to spoil a world, but it can be done."
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"The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it."
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"The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it."
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"The economists have us well along the way of the greatest mass extinction event in human history."
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