Our Environment Quotes - Page 14

• Her [Jurdge Sandra Day O'Connor] judgment has also been critical in protecting our environmental rights. She joined in 5-4 majorities affirming reproductive freedom and religious freedom and the Voting Rights Act.

  Patrick Leahy

  Religious, Rights, Voting

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• At every turn you have to find a new kind of self-sovereignty over your environment. Every kid I see is at the mercy of Periscope, Twitter, or an Angry Bird of some description. People are shackled to their mediocrity by companies and businesses who want to consume your life with theirs.

  Daniel Gillies

  Kids, Self, People

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• Water is an issue, and, clearly, what's happening with the filth in our environment and the levels of carbon monoxide in our atmosphere are the really scary issues right now, the very troubling ones.

  Don Cheadle

  Issues, Water, Scary

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Love your fellow man, and take care of each other and your environment.

  Laura Prepon

  Love You, Men, Fellow Man

  "Radiance from Within". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Ideas need to stand out to be noticed. There is so much noisy information out there that if your message is bland, it won't be heard or acted upon. To avoid obscurity, you need to clash with your environment. Incorporating contrast into your presentation will help it stand out. You create contrast by using the presentation form. For example, you can state the problem, then the solution. State an opposing perspective, then your perspective. State the past, then your picture of the future. Adding the cadence of contrast will pull your idea out of obscurity.

  Nancy Duarte

  Past, Perspective, Helping

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The living conditions of the poor must be improved if we really want to save our environment

  Wangari Maathai

  Want, Environment, Poor

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• I had to really kill off all the religious myths. In the therapy you really feel every painful moment of your life - it's excruciating, you are forced to realise that your pain, the kind that makes you wake up afraid with your heart pounding, is really yours and not the result of somebody up in the sky. It's the result of your parents and your environment.

  John Lennon

  Religious, Pain, Heart

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The earth is not just our environment. The earth is our mother.

  Dalai Lama

  Mother, Earth, Environment

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• We're not products of our environments, we're products of our expectations.

  Wes Moore

  Expectations, Environment, Products

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• The natural environment is not particularly hospitable to human life ... the key to having a good environment is improving it through work... . Energy is fundamentally an environmental improver and if we classify it that way it makes sense out of a lot of these controversies... . It's our obligation and our right to make [our environment] as good for human beings as possible. With that view, it's very easy for people to understand precisely the reason it's good to alter it - because it doesn't naturally come the way we need it to be.

  Alex Epstein

  Keys, Views, People

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• The church must acclimate to a changing world, or she will destine herself to irrelevance or even extinction. ...One of those dramatic changes in our environment is the shift from words to images. To do church in a way that is entirely text driven is the kiss of death.

  Erwin McManus

  Kissing, Irrelevance, Church

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2013). “An Unstoppable Force: Daring to Become the Church God Had in Mind”, p.23, David C Cook

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• Usually you just use these words: "I give you my, I make this commitment to you, I honor this idea between us." For me, commitment boils down to honor. Because you make a commitment to protect our environment, you make a commitment to species preservation, you make a commitment to stop things like human trafficking. You make a commitment to stop smoking, to eat better. Typically, something that is positive. A positive notion of honor.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Commitment, Ideas, Giving

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• The fact that we have been able to perturb the carbon cycle with our industrial revolution is evidence of how vulnerable we are - because when we destroy our environments, we destroy our food and energy supplies. In short, we destroy ourselves.

  Annalee Newitz

  Carbon Cycle, Able, Revolution

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.

  Ike Skelton

  Land, Connections, Facts

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• We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment.

  Herbie Hancock

  Diversity, Brotherhood, Environment

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• The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Sacrifice, Grandchildren, Men

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• They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

  James G. Watt

  Tree, Environmental, Forests

  "Weinberger and the press: point, counterpoint" by Richard Halloran, www.nytimes.com. 1982.

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• In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.

  Paul Brooks

  Land, America, Environmental

  Paul Brooks (1971). “The pursuit of wilderness”

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• Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

  William Ruckelshaus

  Nature, Lunch, Pollution Control

  Business Week, June 18, 1990.

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• Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.

  John Clapham

  Progress, Society, Environmental

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• Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

  Gale Norton

  Innovation, Environmental, Helping

  "The Complete Gale Norton Interview". Interview with Alex Pasquariello, www.hcn.org. May 24, 2004.

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• Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.

  Frank Murkowski

  America, Risk, Environmental

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• We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.

  Norbert Wiener

  Environment, New Environment

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.46, Da Capo Press

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• We are all unconsciously in search of love. Whenever we feel its presence in our environment, we can't help but be drawn to it. There is no more compelling energy in the world.

  Sonia Choquette

  Energy, World, Helping

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• We must protect our most precious resource, our environment, for future generations.

  Alma Adams

  Generations, Environment, Resources

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