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Environment Quotes


"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."


"The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved."


"A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns."


"The environmental benefits of hydrogen are also outstanding. When used as an energy source, hydrogen produces no emissions besides water. Zero polluting emissions, an amazing advance over the current sources of energy that we use."


"The fundamental problem for Republicans when it comes to the environment is that whatever you say is viewed through the prism of suspicion."



"The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman."


"The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult."


"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."


"The magic can happen in a studio. Special things can happen in a recording studio, even though it may seem like a clinical environment from the outside looking in."



"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."


"There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement."



"Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme."


"Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives."


"It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself."


"High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment."


"It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales."


"The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture."


"I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry."


"I am convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive."


"I'm anti-tax, but I'm pro-carbon tax."



"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."


"Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs."


"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."


"The lyrics came out of necessity. When we started writing the record, we started in a more fusion environment and that got boring really quick and that wasn't what we were about on an organic level."


"I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved."


"As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot."


"Furthermore, both Pennsylvania and New Jersey Departments of Environmental Protection have evaluated the sediment to be dredged and also found it to be not toxic."


"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."


"I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues."


"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."


"Heredity is nothing but stored environment."


"I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems."


"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."


"Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates."


"The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school."


"THE TRUTH OF THE VERY SMALLWhen he is born, a baby's head is filled with the knowledge of space. The circumference of his skull is as infinite as the twirlings of the universe. His eyes look out with the blur of eyes which see for all species. He has remembered his own nature from past patterns. Now his heart beats through rock, sky, oceans. He feels the silence and the sound all around the world beneath his skin.We all hold somewhere deep within us the truth we accepted in innocence. The seas, the forests, the soil, the atmosphere, are all vital parts of an ongoing system. By harming any part of it we must ultimately harm ourselves. It is that simple."


"If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees."


"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."


"Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks."


"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."


"For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals."


"So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence."


"A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply, demand and competition for crude oil, taxes, regional differences in access to gasoline supplies and environmental regulations."


"There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me."


"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."


"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."


"This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades."


"In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself."
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