Environment Quotes - Page 20

If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it.

Economies are supposed to serve human ends.. not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good servant, a bad master and a worse religion.

Several generations of slum environment will produce a slum heredity.

If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.

The Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum can summarize: "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

Because nitrous oxide [released by nitrate-fertilised soil] is 296 times stronger than CO₂ at global warming and methane [cow farts] is about 26 times as potent as CO₂, the combined greenhouse effect of our livestock worldwide is greater than the sum total of all the cars, trains, busses, trucks, ships, airplanes and jets.

I do not intend that our natural resources shall be exploited by the few against the interests of the many.

The issue of environmental quality is one which transcends traditional political boundaries. It is a cause which can attract, and very sincerely, liberals, conservatives, radicals, reactionaries, freaks, and middle-class straights.

I am haunted by waters.

Failing to curb the impact of climate change could damage the global economy on the scale of the Great Depression or the world wars by spawning environmental devastation that could cost 5 to 20 percent of the world's annual gross domestic product.

Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close.

The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.

Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.

I will fly around the world doing good for the environment.

A disorganized workspace means disorganized work habits. A sloppy work environment equals sloppy results.

I often quote an African proverb that says: "The world is not ours, the earth is not ours, It's a treasure we hold in trust for future generations." And I often hope we will be worthy of that trust.

Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.

One negative person can create a miserable office environment for everyone else.

I have witnessed the takeover of my world by plastic.

Global warming is not a threat. But environmentalism's response to it is....Even if global warming is a fact, the free citizens of an industrial civilization will have no great difficulty in coping with it-that is, of course, if their ability to use energy and to produce is not crippled by the environmental movement and by government controls otherwise inspired.

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.

Continuing to do stand-up is always a challenge because the audiences and the environments in which you work very often differ.

Once a company has adapted to a new environment, it is no longer the organization it used to be; it has evolved. That is the essence of learning.