Environmental Quotes - Page 39

• As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital.

  Donald Evans

  Government, Friendly, President

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• The whole global warming thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability.

  Jerry Falwell

  Organization, America, Sick

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• During my travels in Iraq, Israel, Gaza, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Europe and all over the United States, I have seen and heard the voices of people who want change. They want the stabilization of the economy, education and healthcare for all, renewable energy and an environmental vision with an eye on generations to come.

  Michael Franti

  Eye, Israel, Japan

  "Time for Passion and Strategy on Climate Change" by Michael Franti, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2009.

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• Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Teamwork, Men, Self

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.165, Vintage

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• The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.

  Daniel Goleman

  Impact, Research And Development, Use

  "How Daniel Goleman Is Changing Our Ideas About Living Green". Interview with Aimee Lee Ball, www.oprah.com. April, 2009.

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• We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.

  Jane Goodall

  People, Needs, World

  "Summit Says: Instant Interviews". www.dailysummit.net. August 26, 2002.

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• I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

  Al Gore

  Country, Educational, Moving

  "Transcript: Vice President Gore on CNN's 'Late Edition'". www.cnn.com. March 9, 1999.

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• Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.

  Brian Greene

  Law, Two, Fundamentals

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• When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the amount of dark energy fits our biological make-up. If the amount of dark energy were substantially different from what we've measured, the environmental conditions would be inhospitable to our form of life.

  Brian Greene

  Dark, Energy, Different

  "The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos". Author Q&A, www.penguinrandomhouse.com. November 1, 2011.

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• Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.

  Garrett Hardin

  Impact, Political, Principles

  Garrett James Hardin (1982). “Naked emperors: essays of a taboo-stalker”, Course Technology Ptr

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• The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.

  Jim Hightower

  God, Men, Should Have

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• The irony of environmental opposition to the Keystone XL project is that stopping the pipeline to the U.S. will not stop production in the oil sands of Canada. Instead of coming to the United States, the oil will still be produced and shipped by rail or a pipeline similar to the Keystone XL to Canada's Pacific Coast.

  John Hoeven

  Oil, Keystone Pipeline, United States

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• Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan.

  Jane D. Hull

  Ozone, Agency, Dust

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• We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.

  Jay Inslee

  Country, Earth Day, Energy

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• There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Weed, Nature, Presidents Day

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.120, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.

  Joan Jett

  Meat Industry, Car, World

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• As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

  Helen Keller

  Eagles, Hands, Skills

  Helen Keller (1920). “Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision”

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• Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it's mature and comparatively fixed.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Immature, Tissues, Growing

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• The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health - is to address the unending, and unequal, growth of the human population. And the one proven way to reduce fertility rates is to empower young women by educating them.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Religious, Keys, Roots

  "How Women Can Save the Planet". The Scientific American Article, www.scientificamerican.com. November 1, 2009.

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• In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

  Max Lerner

  Civilization, Cocoons, Rich

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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• Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.

  Dan Lipinski

  Promise, Energy, Needs

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• The environmental benefits of hydrogen are also outstanding. When used as an energy source, hydrogen produces no emissions besides water. Zero polluting emissions, an amazing advance over the current sources of energy that we use.

  Dan Lipinski

  Zero, Water, Energy

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• We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Issues, Working Together, Example

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• Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.

  Michael E. Mann

  Climate, Host, Planets

  "Death threats, intimidation and abuse: climate change scientist Michael E. Mann counts the cost of honesty" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. March 03, 2012.

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• A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Strong, Successful, Men

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