Environment Quotes

418. There is no better example of the overreach of government than in environmental law.

^{Chris Stewart}

419. It took a generation for companies to recognise their responsibilities in terms of labour practices and another generation for them to recognise their environmental obligations.

^{Rebecca MacKinnon}

420. The genetics of autism are real, but there are also environmental triggers. – Environmental quotes

^{Elizabeth Emken}

422. I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as Henry Thoreau as John Muir will continue to be read.

^{Robert Hass}

423. I don’t know if acting is genetic. Maybe it’s environmental.

^{Freddie Prinze, Jr.}

424. You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I’m party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost, as a man, as a father. – Environmental quotes

^{Pierce Brosnan}

425. Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you’re a citizen automatically under suspicion.

^{Alexander Cockburn}

426. One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to ‘think globally and act locally.’

^{Mike Love}

427. I’ve always thought the main argument for organic was more environmental than a health argument. I just don’t think spraying a lot of pesticides into the environment on a routine basis is a good thing.

^{John Mackey}

430. Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.

^{Ramez Naam}

431. It really disturbs me that the environmental movement has been co-opted by creation-worshippers instead of being encouraged by the Creator-worshippers.

^{Joel Salatin}

432. I think future engineered species could be the source of food, hopefully a source of energy, environmental remediation and perhaps replacing the petrochemical industry. – Environmental quotes – Environmental quotes

^{Craig Venter}

433. In May 2007, congressional Democrats and the Bush administration agreed to a plan to include environmental and international labor standards in upcoming trade agreements.

^{Nina Easton}

434. When I visited the Water Institute’s Baton Rouge offices overlooking the Mississippi River, I couldn’t find a drop of the charged politics that drives so many environmental conversations in Washington.

^{Nina Easton}

435. Let’s recreate the equivalent of the Met Ball in Europe and, rather than for the museum, give the money to environmental causes.

^{Jochen Zeitz}

438. The majority of autists – as well as their parents – seem to be genuine victims of environmental stress.

^{Nikolaas Tinbergen}

439. I travel all over the country speaking to young people, and I am always amazed at how engaged in environmental conservation they are.

^{Philippe Cousteau, Jr.}

440. We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible. – Environmental quotes

^{Ma Jun}

441. Brands who come to China, often they just care about price – so they actually drive the suppliers to cut corners on environmental standards to win a contract. – Environmental quotes

^{Ma Jun}

442. China has leapfrogged into this information age, and Web users have grown very significantly, which knocked down the cost of doing the environmental transparency.

^{Ma Jun}

443. In America, you complain about job losses because of China, but here, we carry all of the environmental costs.

^{Ma Jun}

444. When I look at China’s environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It’s lack of motivation.

^{Ma Jun}

448. If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.

^{Ma Jun}

449. It has been shown that public participation can limit powerful interest groups, while competing interests can help find a reasonable balance between development and environmental protection.

^{Ma Jun}

452. Wrds.

^{Ma Jun}

453. Environmental groups are not completely against dams. We approve of appropriate development. – Environmental quotes

^{Ma Jun}

454. China is bearing the environmental cost for much of the world because China is the factory of the world.

^{Ma Jun}

455. Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they’re willing to take to the streets.

^{Ma Jun}

456. Our nation has abundant clean energy resources, and tapping them will generate jobs, make the air safer to breathe, and tackle climate change – the greatest environmental crisis of our time.

^{Frances Beinecke}

457. I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue – it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well. – Environmental quotes

^{Frances Beinecke}

458. Climate change is the central environmental ill of our time. We have an obligation to protect our children from the dangers of this widening scourge, and we aren’t yet doing enough about it.

^{Frances Beinecke}

459. When we go to the store, we bring home more than food – we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.

^{Frances Beinecke}

460. I was surprised to see how much the mainstream environmental movement hates the ELF.

^{Marshall Curry}

462. As a group, we want to follow good and green strategy. Setting targets is one element of that. The second part is to design products which meet environmental goals.

^{Jamshyd Godrej}

463. There’s a lionfish cookbook put out by the Reef Environmental Educational Foundation, and it tells you how to catch them, how to clean them. – Environmental quotes

^{Edith Widder}

464. It should be noted that the EPA’s banning of methanol is categorically absurd from the point of view of environmental protection.

^{Robert Zubrin}

465. It is not rational, never mind ‘appropriate,’ to impose billions of dollars in economic costs in return for a few dollars in health or environmental benefits.

^{Antonin Scalia}

466. I feel it is urgently necessary to train people who are capable of tackling the various problems we face today in regards to environmental turmoil and the relevancy ofclothing.

^{Issey Miyake}

467. I have been a long-term environmental advocate for the agriculture industry. I have particularly tried to push carbon farming or carbon sequestration. – Environmental quotes

^{Sam Brownback}

468. Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists.

^{Norman Borlaug}

469. It is the public that is illiterate in science and math, a lazy press, and environmental advocacy groups that manufacture fear for misconceptions about energy.

^{Rex Tillerson}

470. I’m not afraid to spend money on the R&D that’s really going to move us to a cleaner energy source that I think is so much the answer to the issues of environmental responsibility and climate change.

^{Lisa Murkowski}

471. We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory.

^{Walter Cronkite}

472. I don’t know of a single park without serious environmental problems. – Environmental quotes

^{Michael Frome}

473. With the mining sites, I found a subject matter that carried forth my fascination with the undoing of the landscape, in terms of both its formal beauty and its environmental politics.

^{David Maisel}

474. I write a lot of environmental stories.

^{Peter Heller}

475. A lot of my nonfiction is very strong environmental stories – I was the first guy to write about the dolphin killings in Japan.

^{Peter Heller}

476. The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society. – Environmental quotes

^{Naveen Jain}

477. Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.

^{Ramez Naam}

478. That’s the big mistake the environmental movement made – ‘We’ll scare the hell out of you, and you’ll become an activist’.

^{Naomi Klein}

479. The human and environmental devastation caused by nuclear weapons – whether by testing, mistake or malice – is the very reason we need to eliminate them altogether.

^{Valerie Plame}

480. Stewardship of our air and water is a responsibility that should be free of the bias of politics. What’s more, environmental regulators should abide by the law. – Environmental quotes

^{Luther Strange}

481. We don’t want the federal government coming in and telling us how to do our environmental remediation or how we’re going to do our healthcare.

^{John Hickenlooper}

482. Even as we continue to carry the banner of civil rights and environmental justice, we’ve also got to focus on many, many people – for them, life starts with a good job.

^{John Hickenlooper}

483. I’m into environmental and ecological issues, so maybe that is an avenue to go down.

^{Daniel Bryan}

484. At every juncture as Oklahoma’s attorney general, Scott Pruitt has consistently chosen to undermine and attack environmental safeguards – not to defend them.

^{Amber Valletta}

485. We’re still expecting capitalism to solve problems: ‘Maybe if we sell enough oil, we can give some profits to an environmental agency!’ Capitalism isn’t a moral system. – Environmental quotes

^Anohni

486. Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues.

^{Timothy Morton}