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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People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.
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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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Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.
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Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmark of responsibility, has no place in Silicon Valley.
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The organism feeds on negative entropy.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.
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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.'
