Environment Quotes - Page 19

Stress is the inability to adapt to a changing environment.

33% of urban traffic is actively seeking a parking space.

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river.

Turning every business into an environmental industry will involve applying new principles...first, we need to make more with less...second, we need to design out waste...third, we must begin to decarbonise our energy supply

When you shoot on film, you don't know whether you've got it or not until you get the film processed, and so it changes the relationship we have with the subject whether it's a landscape or a person in a so-called controlled environment in a chair in a studio in front of you.

What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences.

I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.

I think my path would have always gone back to or delivered me to wildlife. I think wildlife is just like a magnet, and it's something that I can't help.

The regulation of genes is often more interesting than the genes themselves, and it's the environment that regulates genes.

Militarism is in direct competition with people's needs for food, health care, and environmental protection.

The most dominant cultural attributes maintained are the ones that are reinforced by your environment.

What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself.

We must return to nature and nature's god.

Always we try to put the wild in a cage.

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!

Environmentalism is not about the environment. It is about people. It is about a vision for a better life-for people.

So to the best we can, what we do is focus on creating value for others, and how do we do that? We do it by trying to produce products and services that our customers will value more than their alternatives, and not just their alternatives today, but what the alternatives will be in the future. We try to more efficiently use resources than our competitors, and constantly improve in that, and we try to do the best job we can in creating a safe environment, and environmental excellence, and constantly improve at that.

... why are so many religious people arguing about the origin of the species but so few concerned about the extinction of the species?

The favorite statistic is that the U.S. contains 6 to 7% of the world population but consumes more than half the world's resources and is responsible for that fraction of the total environmental pollution. But this statistic hides another vital fact: that not everyone in the U.S. is so affluent.

What they [Jim deMint and the oil lobby] do care about is the precedent. If they open up ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), they'll think they can do anything to the environment - anything at all. Drilling in Yosemite? In the Grand Canyon? What's next?