Environment Quotes

355. All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive – it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.

^{Lynn Margulis}

356. It is extremely important to me that the social and environmental issues associated with the production of fashion clothing are addressed. – Environmental quotes

^{Bonnie Wright}

357. There’s no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

^{James Fallows}

358. Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China’s continued development. That’s according to me, but it is not some wacko view. – Environmental quotes

^{James Fallows}

362. Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?

^{Jeff Goodell}

363. If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.

^{Nina Fedoroff}

364. A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form of machinery and intelligent machines as people without our environmental limitations is essential in understanding FAP, the Final Anthropic Principle, which deals with evolution in the far future.

^{Frank Tipler}

365. The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

^{Ed Begley, Jr.}

366. California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

^{Ed Begley, Jr.}

367. We tend to be more environmental at home than at work, regardless of the industry we’re in.

^{Gale Anne Hurd}

368. The North Pole will be ice-free during summer in years to come, and that itself will put the Arctic Sea basin on a very high risk of… environmental disasters that might be there. – Environmental quotes

^{Aleqa Hammond}

369. I’m sad that it’s uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.

^Grimes

370. Ecosystems are holy. The word “environmental” is a deadly compromise itself. It’s a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.

^{David James Duncan}

371. 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.

^{James Surowiecki}

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374. The NFL, sadly, has a fatal environmental problem: It kills its workers.

^{Matt Taibbi}

375. Businesses typically look at issues like price, quality, time of delivery. They don’t often think about social and environmental impact because they’re focused on their financial bottom line.

^{Jerry Greenfield}

376. Look at your business and the activities that you undertake. Then, start to think about not just your economic concerns, but about social and environmental impacts that businesses have.

^{Jerry Greenfield}

377. Americans increasingly understand that clean energy is more than just an environmental issue. It is crucial to reducing our dangerous dependence on foreigncountries. – Environmental quotes

^{Martin Heinrich}

378. I’ve always been a big supporter of the Surfrider Foundation. I started my own foundation, Rob Machado Foundation, which focuses on environmental education for the little people of the world.

^{Rob Machado}

379. As a nation, we owe a great deal to the National Audubon Society, one of our most distinguished and important environmental organizations, and all those who work to protect America’s open land and waterways.

^{Louis Bacon}

380. Every global concern – economic, environmental or security-related – can be addressed more effectively when the U.S. and China work together. – Environmental quotes

^{Henry Paulson}

381. I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century.

^{William Clay Ford, Jr.}

382. The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that story.

^{Josh Fox}

383. I find the parallels between how some investors refuse to recognise the trends and our reaction to some of our environmental challenges very powerful. There is an unwillingness to process unpleasant data.

^{Jeremy Grantham}

384. I think the environmental movement has failed in that it’s used the stick too much; it’s used the apocalyptic tone too much; it hasn’t sold the positive aspects of being environmentally concerned and trying to pull us out.

^{Edward Burtynsky}

385. I feel privileged to be a U.N. ambassador. It gives me an opportunity to use my voice to help raise awareness about important social and environmental issues. – Environmental quotes

^{Gisele Bundchen}

386. I’ve been a philanthropist for all my life, and… I’ve had many involvements in humanitarian and environmental issues.

^{Julian Lennon}

393. I’m not a doctor or scientist. I’m just a mom. But I do think there’s a genetic predisposition, and there are environmental triggers. I feel like that combination, in my child’s case, is what resulted in autism.

^{Holly Robinson Peete}

394. Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments. – Environmental quotes

^{Natalie Jeremijenko}

395. We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.

^{Natalie Jeremijenko}

396. This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn’t work.

^{Natalie Jeremijenko}

397. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality – what a joke. In my district, we caught them lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale. They are playing with the health and safety of our communities, and we are going to tell them that is not acceptable.

^{Wendy Davis}

398. I rarely fly, for environmental reasons more than anything else.

^{Marcus Brigstocke}

399. If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There’s also the environmental argument for it.

^{Margaret Atwood}

400. People who run environmental groups and things like that, who have to listen to all kinds of nonsense and keep their tempers, are very diplomatic and very inclusive.

^{Sigourney Weaver}

Environment Quotes 401 – 500

401. A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues. – Environmental quotes

^{Judith Rodin}

402. I think environmentalists do no service to their cause by taking fundamentalist stances. I am not defending corporate India’s track record, but for many environmental problems, there are technological solutions.

^{Jairam Ramesh}

406. The environmental movement’s focus on the Keystone XL pipeline issue really used to baffle me.

^{Matthew Yglesias}

407. ‘Green’ is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election – largely in response to George Bush’s suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.

^{Zac Goldsmith}

408. My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late ’60s and ’70s, and I guess I’ve inherited that awareness from her.

^{Robin McLeavy}

412. The worst environmental decision you can make as a human being is to have 14 kids. – Environmental quotes

^{Jane Velez-Mitchell}

413. Wouldn’t it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?

^{Jane Velez-Mitchell}

414. Every decision we make – when we choose a vehicle, when we pump gas into that vehicle, when we order food – is not just a personal lifestyle choice. It’s an environmental and moral choice.

^{Jane Velez-Mitchell}

415. Usually, environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience.

^{Paul Watson}

416. It’s worth knowing more about the complicated environmental and genetic factors that could explain why traumatic brain injuries lead to long-term disabilities in some people and not in others.

^{Anne Wojcicki}

417. What causes autism? As far as we know in 2013, there is no single gene or single environmental factor that accounts for the more than 1 million Americans with ASDs.

^{Thomas R. Insel}