Environmental Quotes

• Employees are given the chance to help shape their company by participating in a company-wide communications program making suggestions on waste reduction, environmental improvement, customer satisfaction, quality improvement, and safety issues.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Quality
  • Chance
  • Communication

• Congress has no business telling courts within a state that they are prohibited from considering issues involving a lease for energy development, production, and exploration that has the potential to cause irreparable environmental and economic damage to the Gulf Coast area of that state.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Business
  • Energy
  • Environmental

• Char Miller's lively, insightful account of the life and world of American forester Gifford Pinchot fills a vitally important gap in environmental and conservation history. Anyone captivated by the issues and controversies surrounding the preservation and development of the nation's natural heritage should read this engaging, carefully researched biography.

  

  Carolyn Merchant
  • Account
  • Conservation
  • Char Miller

• It was inspiring to learn of the new Bachelor of Environmental Studies Program, and I congratulate you for it. Singapore is geographically in the right central position for an influence in Asia and Australia, and NUS has the reputation and academic strength to make it effective.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Environmental
  • Australia
  • Asia

• What we are seeing here is environmental injustice.

  

  Mike Farrell
  • Here
  • Seeing
  • Injustice

• There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly is one of them. But it's low on my list.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Change
  • Environmental

• We have ignored this cancer for so long that the romance of environmental concern is already fading in the shadow of the grim realities of lakes, rivers and bays where all forms of life have been smothered by untreated wastes, and oceans which no longer provide us with food.

  

  Edmund S. Muskie
  • Cancer
  • Concern
  • Ignored

• It's too bad music can't be like movies. For me, playing music and listening to music and creating music is very environmental. It creates a certain environment; it sets a specific mood.

  

  Avey Tare Animal Collective
  • Music
  • Environment
  • Listening

• We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Together
  • Organization
  • Oil

• 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.

  

  Nigel Lawson
  • Country
  • Wind
  • Forests

• In a country where nature has been so lavish and where we have been so spendthrift of indigenous beauty, to set aside a few rivers in their natural state should be considered an obligation.

  

  Frank Church
  • Country
  • Natural
  • Obligation

• Green production is certainly an important topic for newspapers. Environmental considerations are part of every enquiry today and come into most aspects of equipment specification. On balance, however, cost-effectiveness is a more urgent requirement for most print organisations.

  

  Eric Bell Thin Lizzy
  • Balance
  • Production
  • Newspapers

• I don't think people are like, "I'm going to save the planet by planting my own herbs." But on environmental issues like climate change, there's a sense of hopelessness and despair. Maybe it's really a small gesture but if you can have a garden it may make you feel like you're helping in some way, or that you're making a connection. You can't change the world but you can change your backyard.

  

  Novella Carpenter
  • People
  • World
  • Helping

• The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to make sure that violence isn't being perpetrated against workers who are just trying to organize for their rights.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Trying
  • Violence
  • Rights

• Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship.

  

  Ernest Becker
  • Pollution
  • Devastation
  • Ecological

• Like for Putin it's really about hosting this two-week [Olympic] party and showing it off to the world.It's a pride thing. It's a big PR exercise for him and for Russia. So, at that point $50 billion and some environmental damage and a small city's future don't really matter.

  

  Gary Hustwit
  • Party
  • Exercise
  • Damage

• But no matter how big the effort to push a propaganda line might be, climate change is bigger. This, undoubtedly and regrettably, is the biggest immediate long-term environmental challenge we face. A failure to concretely come to some policy outcome on climate change has not only a negative environmental impact but also social and economic consequences for us.

  

  Peter Garrett Midnight Oil
  • Change
  • Failure
  • Consequences

• If you, as CEO, have recognized an approach as being the right one, you have to pursue it consistently, even if some people disagree. But it is now clear to everyone that we, as an automaker, have no alternative but to take environmental protection course.

  

  Norbert Reithofer
  • Protection
  • Disagree
  • Alternative

• Your children should have it impressed upon them that their adult life-style will bear very little resemblance to yours and that they should now be acquiring knowledge, skills, values, and tastes that will sustain them in less materially affluent circumstances. On the other hand, the fresh insights and imaginations of your children may help you find a viable future while there's still time.

  

  Paul R. Ehrlich
  • Children
  • Imagination
  • Helping

• The Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum can summarize: "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."

  

  Ursula Goodenough
  • Environmental
  • End Of The World
  • Understanding Love

• The planetary emergency unfolding around us is, first and foremost...a crisis of thought, values, perceptions, ideas and judgments. In other words, it is a crisis of mind, which makes it a crisis of those institutions which purport to improve minds.

  

  David W. Orr
  • Perception
  • Judgment
  • Sustainability

• When the study of the household (ecology) and the management of the household (economics) can be merged, and when ethics can be extended to include environmental as well as human values, then we can be optimistic about the future of humankind. Accordingly, bringing together these three ‘E's' is the ultimate holism and the great challenge for our future.

  

  Eugene Odum
  • Challenge
  • Household
  • Humankind

• This is an opportunity, I believe, for the Port and all of us to make a bold statement about how oil companies contribute to climate change, oil spills and other environmental disasters and reject this short-term lease.

  

  Ed Murray
  • Opportunity
  • Change
  • Disasters

• I've been a longtime supporter of all sorts of environmental groups.

  

  John Densmore The Doors
  • Groups
  • Long Time
  • Supporter

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