Environmental Quotes - page 2

Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves. (Jello Biafra)
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc. View quote
Katherine Dunn
Economic growth is the aggregate effect of the quest to accumulate capital and extract profit. Capitalism collapses without growth, yet perpetual growth on a finite planet leads inexorably to environmental calamity. View quote
George Monbiot
Business has a way of talking about how to create value, which is in some way isn't bad... We just need to start thinking about if the value we want to create is consistent with all social and environmental well being. View quote
Peter Senge
Any time a body goes outside the environmental conditions for which it developed it has to acclimate. View quote
Vanna Bonta
Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses. View quote
Melissa Bean
In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families. View quote
Wangari Maathai
In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture. View quote
Jeremy Rifkin
The vulgarization of Darwinism that sees the "struggle for existence" as nothing but the competition for some environmental resource in short supply ignores the large body of evidence about the actual complexity of the relationship between organisms and their resources. View quote
Richard Lewontin
The 20th century peatlands ditching in Finland was the worst human environmental destruction action in Europe. View quote
Pentti Linkola
And no matter how serious an environmental problem the automobile poses in today's big city, the horse was dirtier, smelled worse, killed and maimed more people, and congested the streets just as much. (Peter Drucker)
The collegiate idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you're going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing either, you can worry yourself to death. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have money and power already. This is why government benefits usually go to people who don't need benefits from government. Government may make some environmental improvements, but these will be improvements for rich bird-watchers. And no one in government will remember that when poor people go bird-watching they do it at Kentucky Fried Chicken. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation. View quote
Andrew Weil
Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects. View quote
Bjarke Ingels
In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster. View quote
James Surowiecki
What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes to actually toss it? Or the ten-thousand-year history of the fossil fuel being burned to drive to work or iron a shirt? It may be environmentally progressive, but it's not altogether pleasant. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
What they don't realize is that I'm not in the business to make clothes. I'm not in the business to make more money for myself, for Christ's sake. This is the reason Patagonia exists - to put into action the recommendations I read about in books to avoid environmental collapse. That's the reason I'm in business - to try to clean up our own act, and try to influence other companies to do the right thing, and try to influence our customers to do the right thing. So we're not going to change. View quote
Yvon Chouinard
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. View quote
Carl Hiaasen
I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president. (Rachel Corrie)
Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil. View quote
Dennis Weaver
My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm. View quote
Annie Leibovitz
Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development. View quote
Anna Lindh
Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty. View quote
Adam Schiff