Environment Quotes

289. E-waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the United States and can pose serious environmental and health problems here and around the world when not handled properly. – Environmental quotes

^{Gene Green}

290. The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don’t know where your next meal is coming from, it’s hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line.

^{Bjorn Lomborg}

291. I think there’s a green side to John Kerry, if you like, that he’s an environmental activist. His record on the environment is as best as you have on a pro-environment record of anybody in the U.S. Senate.

^{Douglas Brinkley}

292. Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance.

^{Keith Ellison}

293. I have American in-laws, and I care about the environment. We don’t use disposable diapers, which, of course, creates an environmental problem of our own.

^{Yakov Smirnoff}

294. Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.

^{Samuel Wilson}

295. Advertising is an Environmental quotes striptease for a world of abundance.

^{Marshall McLuhan}

296. The whole Environmental quotes policy in the Netherlands has no substance any more.

^{Pim Fortuyn}

297. To reduce the risk of a global Environmental quotes catastrophe, and to avoid reversing the course of human progress, the world must urgently bend the curve of global emissions away from fossil fuels.

^{Johan Rockstrom}

298. We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.

^{Mac Thornberry}

299. The environmental movement doesn’t have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventually, there will be open war. – Environmental quotes

^{Paul Watson}

300. No day is alike – I do many other things, and I’m very active in the environmental movement.

^{Jostein Gaarder}

Environment Quotes 301 – 400

301. Far from environmental prophet, he is a foreign oil profiteer. That is the inconvenient truth of Al Gore. – Environmental quotes

^{Pierre Poilievre}

302. My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can’t come in closer with the 35 mm.

^{Annie Leibovitz}

303. I’ve always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I’m willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place, we’ll have to-in order to increase another place, I’m willing to do that. – Environmental quotes

^{Judd Gregg}

304. I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book… and I began putting more work into environmental history.

^{Jared Diamond}

305. Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn’t long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we’ve got in this country.

^{Jared Diamond}

306. In the state of Wisconsin it’s mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school.

^{Gaylord Nelson}

307. Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues. – Environmental quotes

^{Gaylord Nelson}

308. My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.

^{Sue Kelly}

312. This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades.

^{Jerry Costello}

313. It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions.

^{Samuel Wilson}

314. One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions. – Environmental quotes

^{Samuel Wilson}

315. We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.

^{Samuel Wilson}

316. We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil.

^{Ted Danson}

317. We’re not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.

^{Ted Danson}

318. My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone? – Environmental quotes

^{Bruce Sterling}

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321. 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.

^{Jeremy Rifkin}

322. The positi I took at the time was that we hadn’t really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms. – Environmental quotes

^{Jeremy Rifkin}

323. American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

^{Katherine Dunn}

324. These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.

^{Galen Rowell}

325. There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it.

^{Thomas R. Cech}

326. I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.

^{Kevin Richardson}

327. People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue. – Environmental quotes

^{Michael Pollan}

328. More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthyfamilies, communities, and countries.

^{Gro Harlem Brundtland}

333. Like I said, I’m more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.

^{Hans Blix}

334. So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.

^{Godfrey Reggi}

338. I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems

^{Harri Holkeri}

339. I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.

^{Joe Barton}

340. Just as there’s garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.

^{Pat Buchanan}

341. At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, ‘Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,’ we invariably choose the money.

^{Ethan Hawke}

342. At Current, television is all we do – that’s our business. We don’t have amusement parks I have to worry about, we don’t have environmental cases against us, we don’t have a series of outdoor-advertising companies.

^{Keith Olbermann}

343. Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach? – Environmental quotes

^{David Frum}

344. There is no ‘need’ for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet.

^{Gary L. Francione}

345. Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.

^{John Sununu}

346. Fracking is doable if there’s full disclosure of all chemicals used. Secondly, science dictates the policy rather than politics. Third, there’s collaboration between environmental groups and the natural gas industry.

^{Bill Richardson}

347. I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.

^{William Hague}

348. I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn’t realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left. – Environmental quotes

^{Vivienne Westwood}

349. Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

^{Vivienne Westwood}

350. 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}

351. Over and over, we hear politicians say they can’t spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

^{David Suzuki}

352. Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall.

^{David Suzuki}

353. I’d say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind.

^{Corey Feldman}

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

^{Simon Mainwaring}