Environmental Quotes

Hormones influencing the sensitivity of the person to environmental stimuli.

Environmental history fit[s] into the framework of New Left history. [It is] history "from the bottom up," except that here the exploited element [is] the biota and the land itself.

People sometimes don't like organized situations. Sometimes people need to be left alone more. Sometimes people need environmental support.

In fact, the environmental crisis is related to the crisis of aesthetics, crisis of social cohesion and the crisis of spiritual values.

hen the price of carbon reaches $100 a tonne, then it will become an economically viable business proposition to start taking CO₂ out of the atmosphere and sequestering it underground.

Curing environmental ills requires not a stance outside nature, but a stance within nature, a role not as onlooker without, but as an actor within.

Your descendants shall gather your fruits.

You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough

In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.

The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy.

Most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.

I credit the motion picture industry as the strongest environmental factor in molding the children of my day.

If radioactive waste were dissolved as water soluble compounds and then widely dispersed in the oceans, no health or other environmental risks would ever occur.

The latest computer modeling I've seen indicates that at mid-century, there might be 150 million people classified as "environmental refugees."

The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.

Everyone should ride the bus so that I can drive.

Humans react to danger when it is immediate, immoral, visible... Global warming does not press any of those buttons.

We got everyone's attention, but we didn't solve any environmental problems.

Observations always involve theory.

Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.

Every American expects and deserves clean air, and then we act on that belief, then we will set an example for the rest of the world to follow.

[T]he great champion of the opponents of liberty, namely communism, had to find some other place to go and they basically went into the environmental movement.

We need the tonic of wildness.

We have a basic notion that unless we find a solution for environmental problems, we will not achieve sustainable growth in the coming years

Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation.

We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.

If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.

Our generation was supposed to be about trying to deal with nuclear concerns and environmental disasters.

Justice needs money; it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil rights and environmental drives of our generation.

New technology lets you grow the resource pie, which is the only way you can get out between that pincer of rising consumption (as we end poverty) and environmental and natural resource depletion.

The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialisation, mechanisation, urbanisation and exploding population.

If you do not see yourselves and all things as living, moving, and having their being in God, you see nothing, whatever you may think you see.

I want Canada to be the country that is the best in the world at combining economic growth, social justice and environmental sustainability.

If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental argument for it.

You don't have to live in the country and grow your own food to be green.

The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.

The reality of life is that we are exposed to a multiplicity of toxic substances.

With chemicals, it's shoot first and ask questions later.

Why is Earth Day, today, also Lenin's birthday? Coincidence? Or does it signal the true intent of the national and worldwide environmental movement?

We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be saved in many places if it is to be saved at all.

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.

On our crowded planet there are no longer any internal affairs!

It's too bad music can't be like movies. For me, playing music and listening to music and creating music is very environmental. It creates a certain environment; it sets a specific mood.

Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere.

Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well.

Ontario's gas tax rebates and infrastructure programs help create sustainable transit to improve quality of life for Ottawa residents with significant environmental benefits.

We try to invest in companies that are putting together environmental programs and working to improve their overall social and environmental self.

I was raised with the blessing of being involved with peace and social justice, and the environmental movement. I have my parents to thank for that.

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.

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.