Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are an environmental organization. We do anything we can to lessen our impact.

We will never prevent environmental degradation until we stabilize our population. We simply must face up to this issue eventually, and it can't be too soon.

We do not know nearly enough at the present time about how genetic susceptibility and environmental exposure collaborate in disease.

Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.

We feel like some of these environmental regulations being put on farmers are just too extreme.

Paul Farmer

The toxic soup, as it has been called, is touching every square inch of the flooded areas, ... That issue of the environmental cleanup is one that we have not typically faced with other disasters. It's not just the structural integrity of the buildings, but it's the whole issue of contamination: contamination of buildings, contamination of yards.

Michael Shermer

Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.

Michael Shermer

Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

The planets environmental woes tend to be overlooked as we scramble for the latest high-tech gizmos - and conveniently ignore their energy consumption.

Ramez Naam

That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu - using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get businesses to invest in preserving and improving natural systems.

Norm Dicks

The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.

Nina Fedoroff

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.

Theodore Roosevelt

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.

Marcus Brigstocke

I rarely fly, for environmental reasons more than anything else.

Michele Bachmann

Carbon dioxide is natural, it is not harmful, it is a part of Earth's lifecycle. And yet we're being told that we have to reduce this natural substance, reduce the American standard of living, to create an arbitrary reduction in something that is naturally occurring in Earth.

We want to annoy the whenever we can. The best thing we can do with environmentalists is shoot them.

Michael E. Mann

Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.

Paul Stamets

Of all mushrooms commonly consumed, oyster mushrooms in the genus Pleurotus stand out as exceptional allies for improving human and environmental health. These mushrooms enjoy a terrific reputation as the easiest to cultivate, richly nutritious and medicinally supportive.

In a world where there are even greater constraints to the availability of environmental resources, including food, that shortage of justice is going to become even more critical.

If there is new environmental information, we'll always take a look at it.

It's an accelerated process; we're worried that they will go too fast and they won't look hard enough (for potential environmental impacts).

It will be a national environmental facility. There's nothing like it in our country.

In America, you complain about job losses because of China, but here, we carry all of the environmental costs.

Leila Janah

In terms of environmental impact, Samasource jobs are very green. Our product is human intelligence, and it's transported through the Internet rather than via carbon-intensive trucking, shipping, and warehousing.

Gary Graham

By law we have to have so much money in reserves, ... (Illinois Environmental Protection Agency) was saying our reserves weren't enough.

Because of depleting aquifers, overburdened reservoirs and other environmental problems, the era of increasing water supplies is probably over,

Harrison Ford

Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

Gregg Easterbrook

Though environmental orthodoxy holds that Third World deforestation is caused by rapacious clear-cutters and ruthless cattle barons, penniless peasants seeking fuel wood may be the greatest threat to our forests.

Protection of environmental resources is as much of a long-term investment in California's future as is the construction of public works that provide water or improve transportation or schools.

Property owners should not be punished for being good environmental stewards, yet that is exactly what the ESA does.

Gore Vidal

CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.

James Cromwell

The risks of transporting deadly nuclear waste, the environmental justice impacts and the long-term health effects of both these projects are untenable...We cannot afford to be silent on these important issues.

Garrett Hardin

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.