Environmental Quotes - Page 28

• I felt strong around and always been around people who have very strong environmental convictions.

  Daryl Hannah

  Strong, People, Conviction

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• I'm sure that many people who are involved in an environmental effort ... they will be pretty much encouraged by this recognition.

  Wangari Maathai

  People, Effort, Recognition

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• There's a worldwide linking of environmental activists, developmental experts and human rights advocates. And they're using the two frameworks, in particular environmental standards and human rights.

  Mary Robinson

  Rights, Two, Experts

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• Putting the AR movement directly in opposition to the environmental movement, which should be our natural allies in fighting human arrogance and domination of the planet.

  Peter Singer

  Fighting, Arrogance, Allies

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• Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance.

  Keith Ellison

  Jobs, Engineering, Maintenance

  "Spearing Sacred Cows" by Rep. Keith Ellison, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2011.

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• You show me pollution and I will show you people who are not paying their own way, people who are stealing from the public, people who are getting the public to pay their costs of production. All environmental pollution is a subsidy.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  People, Cost, Subsidies

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• Environmental damage such as graffiti, fly-posting and general littering is a menace that is becoming all too prevalent, not just in inner cities but in many communities - urban and rural.

  Margaret Beckett

  Cities, Community, Damage

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• What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change.

  David Miliband

  Commitment, Political, Climate

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• On human rights, civil rights and environmental quality, I consider myself to be very liberal. On the management of government, on openness of government, on strengthening individual liberties and local levels of government, I consider myself a conservative. And I don't see that the two attitudes are incompatible.

  Jimmy Carter

  Attitude, Rights, Government

  Jimmy Carter (1998). “Conversations with Carter”, p.51, Lynne Rienner Publishers

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• The choices and decisions we make in terms of how we use the land ultimately affect our very DNA. Environmental issues are life issues.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Dna, Decisions We Make, Land

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• Face the facts, all these environmental organizations are thirty, forty, fifty years old. They have big buildings, big obligations, big staffs. They may trade on their youthful dreams, but the truth is, they're now part of the establishment. And the establishment works to preserve the status quo. It just does.

  Michael Crichton

  Dream, Years, Organization

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• Not all introductions worked well. Rabbits were an unmitigated environmental disaster. Unchecked by any natural predator, they bred at a staggering rate and chewed their way across vast areas of pastureland as well as any garden that came their way. Attempts to control them by introducing ferrets, weasels and stoats did much more harm than good. Although these predators probably killed a reasonable number of rabbits, they also devastated populations of kiwi and raided the nests of flighted birds.

  Bee Dawson

  Garden, Numbers, Bird

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• If I had to catalog all the moronic plot turns in The Day After Tomorrow, we'd be here until the next ice age. It's just so very bad. You can have a pretty good time snickering at it-unless, like me, you think there's something to this global warming thing, and you shudder at the irony of a movie meant to warn people about a dangerous environmental trend that completely discredits it. Is it possible that the film is a plot to make environmental activists look as wacko as anti-environmentalists always claim they are?

  David Edelstein

  Thinking, Ice, People

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• No segment of the population has lost more by the agendas of the liberal constituencies of the Democratic Party than the black population. The teachers' unions, environmental fanatics and the ACLU are just some of the groups to whose interests blacks have been sacrificed wholesale. Lousy education and high crime rates in the ghettos, and unaffordable housing elsewhere with building restrictions, are devastating prices to pay for liberalism.

  Thomas Sowell

  Teacher, Party, Ghetto

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• Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster.

  Stewart Brand

  World, Poverty, Farming

  Stewart Brand (2010). “Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, RestoredWildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary”, p.41, Penguin

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• The promises of pie-in-the-sky liberal environmentalists that we can convert to 'clean' energy sources and stimulate our economy are based on dubious environmental and economic assumptions, fantastic notions about alternative energy, and a disturbing acceptance of the tyrannies inherent in command-control economies.

  David Limbaugh

  Acceptance, Sky, Pie

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• The unmistakable lesson is that such is the myopic zealotry of environmentalists like Obama that they would implement policies virtually guaranteed to harm our economy significantly, even when they offer no promise of appreciable environmental benefits.

  David Limbaugh

  Promise, Myopic, Benefits

  "Reckless, Quixotic Fantasies". townhall.com. March 4, 2011.

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• If government ownership of land and natural resources was the best way to protect the environment, then we should have found a Garden of Eden in the Soviet Union after the Iron Curtain came down. Instead, there was one environmental horror story after another.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Garden, Horror Stories, Land

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• Liberalism had come to mean spending more on everything-speech police, failed poverty programs that reward dependence, a bigger nanny state telling us we cannot eat fatty foods, workplace roles that stifle opportunity, and absurd environmental regulations.

  John Stossel

  Mean, Opportunity, Police

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• Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is dying, our soils are eroding, our water tables falling, our fisheries are being depleted, our remaining rainforests shrinking. Something is very, very wrong with our eco-system.

  Richard Lamm

  Fall, Ice, Water

  "Do We Really Know How Much It Costs to Shoe a Horse?" by Gov. Dick Lamm, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Much guilt arises in the life of the believer from practicing the chameleon life of environmental adaptation.

  Beth Moore

  Guilt, Adaptation, Arise

  Beth Moore (2002). “When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Arming Yourself in the Age of Seduction”, p.266, B&H Publishing Group

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

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Reason

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

  Bob Chiarelli

  Quality, Ontario, Benefits

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• While it's good that we maintain high standards for companies seeking to claim environmental leadership, I can't help but ponder the hypocrisy of it all: how much more we expect of companies than of ourselves.

  Joel Makower

  Hypocrisy, High Standards, Helping

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• The Environmental Protection Agency is conducting a seven-hundred-thousand-dollar study to see if Alaskan trees are polluting Oregon forests. You can tell Republicans are in power. Pollution? It's those damn trees.

  Jay Leno

  Oregon, Agency, Tree

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