Environment Quotes - Page 5

Hopelessly uneconomic on any substantial scale, since it requires a conventional power back-up for when the wind stops blowing, forests of wind turbines are rightly regarded in most countries as an environmental monstrosity.

Great design is a multi-layered relationship between human life and its environment.

There must be more to life than having everything.

While the rich reap most of the benefits of technological development, the poor bear an unequal burden of dealing with the consequences of the resulting increased pollution. The poor continue to live in greatest proximity to the sources of pollution, the infrastructure and machinery of industry. They work in the most polluted and physically dangerous workplaces. And these same individuals, living and working closest to the sources of environmental catastrophe, are also the ones most lacking decent health care.

I stress that I am not attacking Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, and the environmental movement in general. They have done some good work overall. I am merely pointing out that they can, and are, used to promote the New World Order, mostly (though certainly not in every case), without their knowledge.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash.

Ethics is the new competitive environment

Stop asking for directions so much. Assuming that you're in a safe environment, pay attention and figure things out for yourself. Have the nerve to take a wrong turn now and then. You'll develop better working instincts and have more self-esteem too.

This planet might be able to support perhaps as many as half a billion people who could live a sustainable life in relative comfort. Human populations must be greatly diminished, and as quickly as possible to limit further environmental damage.

Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.

The Truly Healthy environment is not merely safe but stimulating.

If I live to be old enough, I may sit down under some bush, the last left in the utilitarian world, and feel thankful that intellect in its march has spared one vestige of the ancient forest for me to die by.

The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.

We do not face a choice between protecting our environment or protecting our economy. We face a choice between protecting our economy by protecting our environment - or allowing environmental havoc to create economic havoc.

Society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.

All is connected ... no one thing can change by itself.

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nations economic viability.

Environmentalists have a very conflicted relationship with their cars.