Environment Quotes - Page 29

In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

It's not a choice between our environment and our economy; it's a choice between prosperity and decline.

In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil.

The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers - and thermonuclear weapons.

I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.

That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.

The mountains are exceptional places for, as the natural environment is concerned, they are the concentration of the wildest possible variety of all natural phenomena and forms. They are somehow a concentration of the truth of nature or even I'd say its essence.

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.

The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at a horrific rate. We must understand that we can't buy it back.

We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.

But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.

I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags.

A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.

Your descendants shall gather your fruits.

We assume that we’re masters of our environment, rather than being a part of it.

Lead a life of your own design, on your own terms -not one that others, or the environment have scripted for you.

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

Environmental policies are not just about good publicity; they are about responding to the moral imperative to address both climate change and resource depletion...A company culture that is based on measuring everything in purely financial terms will be crippled by a high turnover of staff, customers and suppliers

We cannot confront the massive challenges of poverty, hunger, disease and environmental destruction unless we address issues of population and reproductive health

Bitumen is junk energy. A joule, or unit of energy, invested in extracting and processing bitumen returns only four to six joules in the form of crude oil. In contrast, conventional oil production in North America returns about 15 joules. Because almost all of the input energy in tar sands production comes from fossil fuels, the process generates significantly more carbon dioxide than conventional oil production.

The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.