Environmental Quotes - Page 33

• Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever.

  Paul Watson

  Musician, Movement, Incredibles

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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 interests behind fracking are very powerful and they've managed to control the dialogue for a while, because they have forced people to sign disclosure agreements; people who have had negative experiences who are not able to speak out because they've signed disclosure agreements with the gas companies. Things like this. They've managed to strangle the opposing viewpoint, but it does seem like the people who are against fracking have started to gain some traction and the realities of what an environmental nightmare it is are starting to become known.

  Joan Osborne

  Powerful, Reality, Agreement

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• The co-opting of the environmental movement by the petroleum industry had a shattering effect. It crushed nascent biofuel businesses, killed research, cut off critical funding, stopped the building of new infrastructure, dissolved powerful alliances and seeded America with doubt over our ability to free ourselves from petroleum.

  Josh Tickell

  Powerful, Cutting, America

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• I was in a store in Halifax, Nova Scotia that I love, sort of like an environmental friendly sort of store. But they had a great book section. So I went in there all the time. The woman who worked there - which I feel so bad; I've forgotten her name - she handed me the book and she said, "Hey, you should read this. I think it would make a good movie." I remember reading the back of it and I was like, "Huh." Then I just devoured the book and I was so moved by it and said, "Why don't we start developing this into a film?" So that's how it ['Into the Forest'] all started.

  Ellen Page

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  "Into The Forest: Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood Survive a Quiet Apocalypse". Interview with Don Kaye, www.denofgeek.com. July 28, 2016.

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• House Republican leaders voted more than 300 times to undermine environmental safeguards since 2011, but almost none of these measures became law because Americans pushed back.

  Frances Beinecke

  Law, Leader, House

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• I am passionate about exploring the confluence of environmental and human health. I believe that the goals of conservation must constantly revisit a stated purpose.

  Barton Seaver

  Believe, Goal, Purpose

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• The real strength of the environmental movement is the tens of thousands, even millions of individuals around the world who are really making a difference and they are doing it out of passion.

  Paul Watson

  Real, Passion, Differences

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• I come from a family of conservation activists, and so I've had a strong connection to nature all my life. My father has been a leader within the movement for over thirty years and has taught most of what I know about environmental conservation. While he would always take me hiking, camping, and rafting, he also taught me that the spiritual value of the outdoors alone is not enough to save nature against economic interests.

  Edward Norton

  Spiritual, Strong, Father

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• I was raised with the blessing of being involved with peace and social justice, and the environmental movement. I have my parents to thank for that.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Blessing, Justice, Parent

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• What we can do is to shape how that process of global integration proceeds, so that it's increasing opportunity for ordinary people, so that it's creating better jobs, so that we are strengthening protections for workers, so that we are addressing some of the environmental challenges that come with rapid growth.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Opportunity, Creating

  Source: time.com

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• It's actually not very hard to re-set between the adult novels and the ones for younger readers. The narrative voices are very similar, the smartass attitude, the environmental battles. Kids love books that are irreverent and challenge authority, when authority is arbitrary, greedy or foolish. They also love it when you make fun of grownups, and I've spent my whole life as a writer doing that.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Fun, Attitude, Book

  "'True-life Source Material Is Fabulously Bizarre' - Carl Hiaasen Answers Our Questions about 'Razor Girl'". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.amazonbookreview.com. September 07, 2016.

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• How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful machines, the good earth is our mother and that if we destroy her, we destroy ourselves?

  Paul Sears

  Mother, Powerful, Cities

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• The funny thing about sustainability is you gotta sustain it.

  Ron Finley

  Funny Things, Sustainability

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• Priestly stewardship suggests that creation is not just for us, that it has purpose independent of the uses we can make of it. All of creation-human and nonhuman alike-exists ultimately for God and to the praise of God.

  Rodney Clapp

  Independent, Purpose, Use

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• Significantly, God in Genesis 1 pronounces the rest of creation "good" before humanity is created. The psalmist and the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel can speak of mountains, trees, sun, and moon praising God. Unlike an office complex or gymnasium, which have no value if people do not inhabit them, creation can glorify and bring God delight apart from human presence.

  Rodney Clapp

  Moon, Ezekiel, Office

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• The environmental movement can only survive if it becomes a justice movement. As a pure environmental movement, it will either die, or it will survive as a corporate 'greenwash'. Anyone who's a sincere environmentalist can't stand that role.

  Vandana Shiva

  Justice, Roles, Movement

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• Environmental regulation looked like it was going to be under serious attack, and they were giving all of those speeches about getting government off people's backs.

  Robert Hass

  Government, People, Giving

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• You begin to see that all of these things are connected: The kind of cuts that mean less environmental protection are also the kind of cuts that mean less musical education for the schools and that also mean more overcrowded schools.

  Robert Hass

  School, Mean, Cutting

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• Once you figure out something about the watershed, you'll find out where the schools are going to hell, and the kids aren't learning, and there is no money. Social issues, class issues, and environmental issues were all connected.

  Robert Hass

  School, Kids, Class

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• Canada stands out as making a sensible and positive contribution to the world. I'm saying that maybe because of its inclination toward multilateralism. Support for the environmental protection cause. It's relationship between people and nature.

  Christine Lagarde

  People, Support, World

  "Christine Lagarde on slow growth, inequality and fighting cynicism". Interview with Kevin Carmichael, www.macleans.ca. September 12, 2016.

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• The Kochs have been activists since the 1970s. You can go back and look at the platform of the Libertarian Party in 1980 and see what they really believe in. They wanted to abolish huge swaths of the U.S. government, including the Internal Revenue Service. They want to get rid of Social Security. They'd like to get rid of Medicare. They'd like to abolish the Environmental Protection Agency, which directly affects their business.

  Jane Mayer

  Party, Believe, Agency

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'm one of the few candidates that actually goes out and talks in public, so I say a lot of things based on my experience, my judgment as an environmental health physician, so I say a lot of stuff.

  Jill Stein

  Environmental Health, Physicians, Stuff

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• Understanding what is going on in the world today inspires me in a negative sense because there's so much about it that I don't like - political stupidity, environmental degradation, etc. And that makes me want to change it, to make a difference in the world.

  Theodora Goss

  Differences, Stupidity, Political

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• Many environmental questions are in a deep way philosophical, despite our penchant for treating them as if they were only technological, economic, or whatever.

  Dale Jamieson

  Philosophical, Way, Economic

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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