Ban Ki-moon Quotes
We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'
Quotes to Explore
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Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.
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I don't plan on being bashful.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
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I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.
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We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.
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There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.
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Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit.
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What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.
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Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.
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By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.
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We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible.
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I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.
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I have younger friends who are in this pinch where they feel they've been counted out before they've had a chance to prove themselves. They've inherited a lot of debt - not just student debt but environmental debt, political debt. They really feel squeezed.
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This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.
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Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.
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I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights.
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It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.
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Plan ahead or find trouble on the doorstep.
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He was a man, he always performed his promises.
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I think aerobatic flying is athletic. I don't do aerobatic flying, but I would put that in a category of a sport. I would put regular flying in the category of an art or machine-type thing.
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The world takes us at our own valuation. It believes in the man who believes in himself, but it has little use for the timid man: the one who is never certain of himself, who cannot rely on his own judgment, who craves advice from others, and is afraid to go ahead on his own account.
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The procurator studied the new arrival with avid, and slightly fearful eyes. It was the kind of look one gives someone one has heard of and thought a lot about, and whom one is meeting for the first time.
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We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'
