Environmental Quotes - Page 30

• My kids get very upset with me when I leave to do film work, but they have a lot of patience with me when I leave to do environmental work.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Kids, Upset, Film

  Interview with Lisa Mullenneaux, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 27, 2012.

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• Ambient means the natural center or atmosphere of a space. All music has that in it- a space or center. I think it just means the atmosphere or what defines the environment of sound and maybe removing the more destructive, harsh elements and harder rhythmic elements and you get down to the stillness that's inherent. There's an ambient quality in every sound. You may have to enhance that to hear it or bring it out in a different way but there is that in every environmental sound.

  Bill Laswell

  Mean, Thinking, Space

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• [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.

  Harrison Schmitt

  Champion, Liberty, Movement

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• One of the best ways to properly evaluate and adapt to the many environmental stresses of life is to simply view them as normal. The adversity and failures in our lives, if adapted to and viewed as normal corrective feedback to use to get back on target, serve to develop in us an immunity against anxiety, depression, and the adverse responses to stress. Instead of tackling the most important priorities that would make us successful and effective in life, we prefer the path of least resistance and do things simply that will relieve our tension, such as shuffling papers and majoring in minors.

  Denis Waitley

  Stress, Adversity, Successful

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• I never held Negroes to be inherently inferior. The statement in Marriage and Morals refers to environmental conditioning. I have had it withdrawn from subsequent editions because it is clearly ambiguous.

  Bertrand Russell

  Moral, Conditioning, Ambiguous

  Bertrand Russell, Barry Feinberg, Ronald Kasrils (1969). “Dear Bertrand Russell ... a selection of his correspondence with the general public, 1950-1968”, Allen & Unwin

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• To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. Design is how you treat your customers. If you treat them well from an environmental, emotional, and aesthetic standpoint, you're probably doing good design.

  Yves Behar

  Emotional, Glasses, Design

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• I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags.

  W. S. Merwin

  Want, Tag, Poet

  "An Interview with W. S. Merwin, Poet Laureate". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. October 25, 2010.

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• We have endorsements of our plan from key leaders within the environmental movement. That doesn't mean that it includes the whole environmental movement.

  Rachel Notley

  Mean, Keys, Leader

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• What AI could do is essentially be a power tool that magnifies human intelligence and gives us the ability to move our civilization forward. It might be curing disease, it might be eliminating poverty. Certainly it should include preventing environmental catastrophe. If AI could be instrumental to all those things, then I would feel it was worthwhile.

  Stuart J. Russell

  Moving, Civilization, Giving

  "Intelligent robots don't need to be conscious to turn against us". Interview with Guia Marie Del Prado, www.businessinsider.com. August 5, 2015.

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• That's my goal, is to stay in a truthful place. And sometimes that means writing a silly song, or singing about sex or singing about environmental destruction or heartbreak, or my grandmother. The subject isn't what the core is about, it's about truthfulness and authenticity and that just comes from my heart and soul.

  Mirah

  Song, Sex, Silly

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Politicians had always viewed environmental issues as narrow things of no great political consequence. Sort of NIMBY issues. A big part of the reason was that the groups that cared about wilderness didn't talk with the groups that were trying to stop freeways from cutting through inner cities, and neither of them talked to the folks who wanted to stop the military from dumping Agent Orange on Vietnam.

  Denis Hayes

  Military, Cutting, Cities

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

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• Earth Day gathered up those strands, and dozens more, and knitted them together in the public consciousness as "environmental" issues. The nation was pretty startled when 20 million people hit the streets. Congress, which had adjourned for the day to go back to its districts, was blown away.

  Denis Hayes

  Issues, People, Earth Day

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Pric, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

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• With time environmental issues got much more complicated. It is pretty easy, if you know what you are doing, to stop a company from pouring poison into a lake where kids swim. It is much harder to address all the myriad greenhouse gases emitted by different sources - from petrochemical refineries to hundreds of millions of peasants cutting down trees for their incredibly inefficient cook stoves.

  Denis Hayes

  Kids, Cutting, Lakes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Obama wants to build such things as smart electrical grids and high-speed rail lines, which will offer big environmental improvements. Another obvious thing is that large-scale project financing is virtually frozen, so a lot of renewable energy projects are on hold. If the system doesn't get unclogged before the developers run out of cash, they will be cancelled. Money matters, and we are racing against time.

  Denis Hayes

  Running, Smart, Obvious Things

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

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• I've always been very involved with environmental issues. I was fortunate to be one of the speakers at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero some years back, and Bruce Johnson and I served on the board of the Surfrider Foundation here at home. Locally and globally, we need to be doing everything we can to help Mother Earth.

  Mike Love

  Mother, Home, Years

  "Mike Love of the Beach Boys". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• I've been a longtime supporter of all sorts of environmental groups.

  John Densmore

  Groups, Supporter

  "John Densmore on Life, Love, Meditation and His New Book, 'The Doors: Unhinged'". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• If we had kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.

  Satish Kumar

  Vision, World, Today

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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

  Satish Kumar

  Spiritual, Facts, Cohesion

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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• That said, a lot of people buy products with "green" in the brand name, but make no attempt to understand what it would really take to live sustainably. I think one of the most pernicious examples of magical environmental thinking is the anti-GMO movement.

  Annalee Newitz

  Thinking, Names, Gmos

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A lot of environmental and biological science depends on technology to progress. Partly I'm talking about massive server farms that help people crunch genetic data - or atmospheric data. But I also mean the scientific collaborations that the Internet makes possible, where scientists in India and Africa can work with people in Europe and the Americas to come up with solutions to what are, after all, global problems.

  Annalee Newitz

  Mean, Technology, Talking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think that overall, ultimately the impact of advertisers calling the shots is a more cloying, complacent culture. For example, it was just announced that Unilever is branding environmental content at The Guardian. How radical or pointed can that content be?

  Astra Taylor

  Thinking, Impact, Example

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Country must confront what he called institutional racism. [We should] create a country which provides economic, social and environmental justice for all.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Justice For All, Racism

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I only started to understand the concept of "environmental protection" 14 years ago. I was an ambassador for a charity event, and the staff told me that the consumption of disposable chopsticks in China, per year, could result in the devastation of unimaginable acres of forest.

  Li Bingbing

  Years, Events, Charity

  "Interview with Li Bingbing on Elephants and Ivory Poaching". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Perseverance is my biggest lesson. When I started to get involved in environmental protection some years ago, my people did not take it seriously and they never considered it important. But today, people look at what I do and they truly recognize those efforts, and eventually they join you as "environmental activists" too!

  Li Bingbing

  Perseverance, Years, People

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• I'm a fan of Tom's of Maine natural oral care line for those very reasons; they deliver on both healthy and environmental goodness. The beauty of it is you'll feel even more empowered knowing you're doing something good for yourself and the environmental footprint of your beauty routine.

  Sophie Heyman Uliano

  Knowing, Healthy, Lines

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