World Environment Quotes - Page 4

• If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Men, Years, Bees And Honey

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• It is time for a sustainable energy policy which puts consumers, the environment, human health, and peace first.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Time, Sustainable Energy, Firsts

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• You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

  Hal Borland

  Nature, Squirrels, Earth Day

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• A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

  John James Audubon

  Nature, Children, Father

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

  John Clapham

  Progress, Society, Environmental

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• The world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race: they affect us all.

  William J. Clinton

  Race, World, Arms

  Clinton, William J. (1994). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993”, p.2, Best Books on

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• I love raising awareness and encouraging people to take action for World Environment Day, because it demonstrates how individual voices can become a global chorus for change.

  Li Bingbing

  Voice, People, World

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

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• Whales have become newly symbolic of real values in a world environment of which man is newly aware. Whales live in families, they play in the moonlight, they talk to one another, and they care for one another in distress. They are awesome and mysterious. In their cold, wet, and forbidding world they are complete and successful. They deserve to be saved, not as potential meatballs, but as a source of encouragement to mankind.

  Victor Blanchard Scheffer

  Encouragement, Real, Successful

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• The issue of world environment has a special kind of urgency... The issue is one of rich peoples and poor peoples, of the growing gap between the two, and of the rich fouling their own nests.

  Gilbert F. White

  Two, Issues, Special

  Gilbert F. White (1986). “Geography, Resources and Environment, Volume 1: Selected Writings of Gilbert F. White”, p.289, University of Chicago Press

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• I believe that there is a whole set of issues in the world - environment, proliferation, energy, cyberspace - that can only be dealt with on a global basis. The traditional patterns of national rivalry and national competition are not suitable for those cases.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, Issues, Competition

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have found that good taste, oddly enough, plays an important role in politics. Why is it like that? The most probable reason is that good taste is a visible manifestation of human sensibility toward the world, environment, people.

  Vaclav Havel

  Play, People, Important

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• The need for a global structure of control in the form of a world environment court is now more urgent than ever before.

  Judi Dench

  Needs, World, Global Warming

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• In China, I helped introduce UNEP's campaign to reduce food waste on World Environment Day. The government took notice of food waste issues and now, when you over-order in a restaurant, you are encouraged to downsize. This is where people can really impact policy and vice versa!

  Li Bingbing

  Government, Order, Issues

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

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