Iron Quotes - Page 3

Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.

Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with environmental protection, says the German economist and IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer. The next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of the worlds resources will be negotiated.

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

When our souls are healthy, we change the environment; the environment doesn't change us.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.

We are a part of everything that is beneath us, above us, and around us. Our past is our present, our present is our future, and our future is seven generations past and present.

This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets... would occupy all eastern and south-eastern Europe, together with the greater part of the [German] Reich. All over this territory, which would be of an enormous extent, an iron curtain would at once descend.

If you have a good idea, open your mouth and say something else.

You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

In nature nothing exists alone.

Truth offends everyone outside its definitions. But the irony of truth is that the greater its potential for offense, the greater its potential for giving hope.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.