Environmental Quotes - Page 26

• 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.

  John Coleman

  Data, Long, Political

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• I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.

  Alexandra Paul

  Car, Able, Said

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• For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals.

  Alexandra Paul

  Animal, Decision, Doing Me

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• If you really want to define civilization it should be a culture that doesn't destroy its environment. If you burn down the kitchen one day and expect to eat the next, it is not even intelligent, let alone civilized.

  Sting

  Intelligent, Civilization, Kitchen

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• Like most problems with technology, pollution is a problem of scale. The biosphere might have been able to tolerate our dirty old friends coal and oil if we burned them gradually, but how long can it withstand a blaze of consumption so frenzied that the dark size of this planet glows like a fanned ember in the night of space.

  Ronald Wright

  Dirty, Dark, Night

  Ronald Wright (2010). “A Short History Of Progress”, p.7, Canongate Books

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• Like all creatures, humans have made their way in the world by trial and error. Unlike other creatures we have a presence so colossal that error is a luxury we can no longer afford. The world has grown too small to forgive us any big mistakes.

  Ronald Wright

  Mistake, Luxury, Errors

  Ronald Wright (2010). “A Short History Of Progress”, p.3, Canongate Books

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• In this sometimes turbulent world, the river is a cosmic symbol of durability and destiny; awesome, but steadfast. In this period of deep national concern, I wish everyone could live for a while beside a great river.

  Helen Hayes

  Destiny, Rivers, Wish

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• May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

  Virgil

  Rivers, Gliding, Valleys

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• The organization and the environment are in concert.

  Kevin Kelly

  Organization, Literature, Concerts

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• When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.

  Kevin Kelly

  Organization, Turbulence, Organisms

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• We must conserve our environment and pass it on to our children in as good or better condition than it was passed to us.

  Mark Kennedy

  Children, Our Environment, Conditions

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• If you live in a squalid environment, then of course you are going to want to get out of it, you are probably going to want to get into the country, because that's what it does.

  Richard Rogers

  Country, Doe, Want

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• By cutting ourselves off from the rest of creation, we are left bereft of awe and wonder and therefore of reverence and gratitude. We violate our very beings, and we have nothing but trivia to teach our young.

  Matthew Fox

  Gratitude, Cutting, Awe And Wonder

  "The Reinvention of Work". Book by Matthew Fox, New York: Harper, p. 128, 1994.

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• It is unfortunate that some in our party have lost sight of the importance of conservation and environmental protection for keeping America strong, healthy, prosperous, and secure. It's time for all of our Republican leaders to recognize that conservation is conservative.

  David Jenkins

  Strong, Party, Sight

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• Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.

  Isaiah

  Hair, Age, Sustainability

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• Why does God bless us with abundance? So we can have enough to live on and then use the rest for all manner of good works that alleviate spiritual and physical misery. Enough for us; abundance for others.

  John Piper

  Spiritual, Doe, Use

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.203, Multnomah

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• The environmental agenda seems swept under the rug a lot, and environmentalists are looked at as tree-huggers who aren't dealing with the real issues when in fact someone needs to be keeping an eye on how we're treating the planet. When politicians bring up the environment, they're immediately labeled as being anti-business. But for the sake of the planet on which we live, we need to take the environment into account.

  Rachel Dratch

  Real, Eye, Issues

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I believe that climate change is the great global crisis that we face, environmental crisis. I believe that if you're serious about climate change, you don't encourage the excavation and transportation of very dirty oil.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Dirty, Oil

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Usually the way I think someone is radicalized is through a personal experience. The thing about environmental activism is that we are all having a personal experience with our environment, whether we open our eyes or not.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Eye, Thinking, Way

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We need to be rid of the insane policy of environmentalism. No more 'green', anti-growth, anti-science environmental policy.

  Kesha Rogers

  Growth, Insane, Needs

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• Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.

  Van Jones

  Justice, Community, Suffering

  Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2008.

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• I would hope with all my heart that people understand this and see it in the film. And there are also other messages in Happy Feet, like racial and environmental ones, but none of them are so overt. George has made a great story about penguins with a lot of humanity in it and audiences can follow a species we don't know that well.

  Brittany Murphy

  Heart, Feet, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The environmental crisis is fundamentally a spiritual crisis.

  Thomas Berry

  Spiritual, Crisis, Spiritual Crisis

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• I think there is a danger that an environmental crisis can be used in precisely the same way as the terrorist threat can be used in terms of giving up freedom.

  Naomi Klein

  Giving Up, Thinking, Way

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. August 12, 2008.

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• Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American culture and see vast inequity, widespread institutionalized violence and racism and transphobia and environmental destruction. It's hard to be in this world and feel a sense of innate satisfaction at all. There's plenty of things to feel unsettled about.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Racism, Contentment, Culture

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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