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Environment Quotes
"We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment."
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"There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment."
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"It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions."
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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'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."
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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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"This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades."
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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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"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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"Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement."
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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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"Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term."
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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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"I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way."
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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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"Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses."
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"The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated 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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"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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"These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message."
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"I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes."
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"We seem to do better in the studio than we do in a live environment."
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"I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system."
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"When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!"
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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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"Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all."
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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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"We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand."
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"There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table."
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"This is a tough environment, and it's tough for everybody."
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"Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea."
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"The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it."
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"We recognize the need to adapt to a changing competitive environment."
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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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"I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment."
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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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"We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country."
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"In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again."
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"I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place."
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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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"The sterile, arid environment created by truly jarring and discordant signage and gargantuan billboards is a turnoff."
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"It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I think anyone would accept that if you set it up properly, not only will you get better environmental outcomes, you have a chance to create more wealth with the available resource."
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"However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I think the environment that we are in now has improved dramatically."
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"Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block."
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"A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic."
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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 outdoors, the beautiful environment, both in fresh and salt water. And the thing that concerns me is the amount of kids that stand on street corners, or go into pinball parlours, and call it recreation."
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"What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed."
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"So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions."
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"Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago."
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