Environmental Issues Quotes

• It is extremely important to me that the social and environmental issues associated with the production of fashion clothing are addressed.

  Bonnie Wright

  Fashion, Issues, Environmental

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• Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Issues, Environmental, Important

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• When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

  John Muir

  Motivational, Wisdom, Nature

  John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Issues, Environmental, Important

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• I'd say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind.

  Corey Feldman

  Animal, Rights, Issues

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• Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Issues, Environmental, Franklin

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

  Mackenzie Crook

  Issues, Environmental, World

  "Goodbye cruel Slough". Interview with Sam Wollaston, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2004.

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• Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.

  Hans Blix

  Issues, Long, Environmental

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• Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

  John Muir

  Nature, Heart, I Hate You

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• I believe that in order to tackle the big issues of the world today, like environmental issues, we need everybody's involvement. We need the resources of the corporate world. We need the cooperation of governments. We need the wisdom of indigenous people.

  Michael Franti

  Believe, Government, Order

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• The language "it's too late" is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Issues, People, Environmental

  "Jeremy Grantham on population growth, China and climate sceptics" by Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2013.

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• Now is not the time to repudiate environmental balance, but rather it is the time for all of us to work together - politician, advocate, rancher, scientist, and citizen. Only by doing this will the United States move forward and be a leader in environmental issues and ensure sustainability to our delicate ecosystem.

  Robert Redford

  Moving, Ecosystems, Issues

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• The interesting thing is, everybody focuses on the global warming as an environmental issue, as something outside our daily lives. But actually the impact of global warming is with us today. Communities are suffering. Communities in poor countries are the ones paying the price, they are not the ones who are polluting, and we need to help them adapt.

  Kofi Annan

  Country, Issues, Impact

  Source: www.global-leaders.tv

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• To the greatest extent possible, I try to make choices that involve the least amount of cruelty and environmental damage. I'm interested in sustainable agriculture, environmental issues, human rights, and my interconnectedness in the web of life. It is a great pleasure for me to find products and practices that have a positive effect on living beings and the environment, rather than a negative one.

  Vesanto Melina

  Rights, Practice, Web Of Life

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• I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn't pose a serious environmental issue.

  John Hickenlooper

  Issues, Environmental, Energy

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• Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.

  Jeff Goodell

  Sexy, Mean, Issues

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• I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.

  David Frum

  Government, Years, Issues

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• Americans increasingly understand that clean energy is more than just an environmental issue. It is crucial to reducing our dangerous dependence on foreign countries.

  Martin Heinrich

  Country, Issues, Environmental

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• This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

  Natalie Jeremijenko

  Ideas, Issues, Environmental

  "The Q&A: Natalie Jeremijenko, thingker". More Intelligent Life Interview, www.economist.com. September 20, 2010.

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• Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.

  Bill Nye

  Thinking, Issues, Environmental

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• [D]id you really expect fairness on the environmental issue? For a swathe of reporters, this is not a matter of empirical reporting; it's a matter of faith. Bush cannot be pro-environment because he's Bush.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Issues, Environmental, Politics

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• It is a fact that, in the West, we live in a capitalist society, but that does not mean that we cannot be guided by the idea of a social conscience in our work. Yes, fashion design requires consumers to consume, but we can do our bit for society by running our companies in a socially responsible way, and by creating products that promote respect for social and environmental issues. There is also the possibility for power and influence to be a force for change.

  Giorgio Armani

  Change, Running, Fashion

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• Kyoto protocol is not a simple environmental issue, where you can say scientists are not unanimous. This is about international relations, this is about the economy, about trying to create a level playing field for big businesses throughout the world. You have to understand what is at stake, and that is why it is serious.

  Margot Wallstrom

  Simple, Kyoto Protocol, Issues

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• People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

  Michael Pollan

  Issues, People, Environmental

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• Providing a real way to deal with the urgent needs of environmental issues that is accessible to everyone is the new fight for the democratization of design.

  Philippe Starck

  Real, Fighting, Issues

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