Environment Quotes - Page 28

If your a leader, do everything you can to grow yourself and create the right environment for others to grow.

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs

I'm one of the few candidates that actually goes out and talks in public, so I say a lot of things based on my experience, my judgment as an environmental health physician, so I say a lot of stuff.

Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.

It is no accident that television has been dominated by a handful of corporate powers. Neither is it accidental that television has been used to re-create human beings into a new form that matches the artificial, commercial environment. A conspiracy of technological and economic factors made this inevitable and continue to.

We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.

It's not a pretty picture, but there are reasons for hope.

I've never worked as hard as when I was at drama school. It's the most professional environment I've ever been in.

The risks of transporting deadly nuclear waste, the environmental justice impacts and the long-term health effects of both these projects are untenable...We cannot afford to be silent on these important issues.

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

Ultimately it is by harnessing the natural economic forces which drive society that the pollution tax offers us an opportunity to exert greater control over our environment.

Nature, not human activity, rules the climate.

I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry.

In a country where nature has been so lavish and where we have been so spendthrift of indigenous beauty, to set aside a few rivers in their natural state should be considered an obligation.

All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.

The capitalist system only allows us to heap up waste. I would like to propose that the trillions of money earmarked for war should be channeled to make good the damage to the environment, to make reparations to the earth.

If youre going to be at a job environment, you should love it. You shouldnt do it just for money. You should do it because you love it. And the money comes naturally.

Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until you make yourself sick.

One in eight plant species face extinction.

All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.

Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman are as mythical as werewolves. By increasing the information we have about the various causes of the constraints that limit our current opportunities, he has increased our powers to avoid what we want to avoid, prevent what we want to prevent. Knowledge of the roles of our genes, and the genes of the other species around us, is not the enemy of human freedom, but one of its best friends.

No matter if the science is all phoney, there are collateral environmental benefits.... climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.

Wolves are very resourceful. All they need to survive is for people not to shoot them.

Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.