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Environment Quotes
"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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"We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand."
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"It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do."
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"This is a tough environment, and it's tough for everybody."
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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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"The garden is an unemployed township-based man's cubicle."
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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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"Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks."
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"We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice."
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"It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming."
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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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"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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"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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"Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections."
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"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."
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"Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms."
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"These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message."
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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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"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."
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"I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach."
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"The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms."
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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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"More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries."
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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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"This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades."
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"There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table."
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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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"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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"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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"The economists have us well along the way of the greatest mass extinction event in human history."
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"Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be several times what it is for the car business."
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"Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant."
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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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"I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry."
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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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"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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"It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated."
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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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"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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"If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them."
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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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"We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas."
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"When I was on that boat, I realized the only way I would feel creatively challenged was if I totally changed everything about my environment and put myself in a storm, in a sense."
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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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"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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"Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years."
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"I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late."
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