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Environment Quotes
"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"The economists have us well along the way of the greatest mass extinction event in human history."
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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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"The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman."
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"This place can't be heaven, it doesn't have the right vibe."
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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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"It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do."
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"One of the problems with climate change, global warming and global air pollution is that it may change the frequency and intensity of electrical storm activity. Too much lightning activity may cause excessive mating, aggression, fatigue, illness and disease to occur. Too little may turn off the animal and plant breeding cycles."
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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 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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"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 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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"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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"The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school."
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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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"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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"Everyone thrives most in his or her own unique environment."
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"When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!"
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"High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment."
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"Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy."
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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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"Sheep farming is heavily subsidized in Great Britain. Without the subsidies, the green grazing in the valley of the River Exe would be gone. The handsome agricultural landscape of which the British are so proud, carefully husbanded since Boudicca's day, would be replaced by natural growth. The most likely growth is real-estate developments."
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"The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved."
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"Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear cases where current laws are needlessly burdensome."
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"Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms."
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"Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"The planet is finished with us, at this point ."
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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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"In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself."
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"While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require."
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"I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the 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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"Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment."
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"I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach."
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