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My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.
– Annie Leibovitz
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My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?
– Bruce Sterling
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
– Barry Commoner
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My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.
– Sue Kelly
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Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
– Garrett Hardin
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Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.
– Samuel Wilson
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More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries.
– Gro Harlem Brundtland
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More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance.
– Simon Mainwaring
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Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.
– Jeff Goodell
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Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.
– Dixy Lee Ray
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Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.
– Cathy McMorris
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
– Gale Norton
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Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.
– Gaylord Nelson
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Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.
– Hans Blix
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Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years.
– Marsha Blackburn
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Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear cases where current laws are needlessly burdensome.
– Sherwood Boehlert
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Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
– John Muir
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Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.
– Patrick Buchanan
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Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.
– Paul Tsongas
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It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.
– David R. Brower
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It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.
– John Coleman
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It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I think anyone would accept that if you set it up properly, not only will you get better environmental outcomes, you have a chance to create more wealth with the available resource.
– John Anderson
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It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions.
– Samuel Wilson
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It is extremely important to me that the social and environmental issues associated with the production of fashion clothing are addressed.
– Bonnie Wright
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It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it.
– David R. Brower
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Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.
– John Ray
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In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.
– Olympia Snowe
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In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.
– Jeremy Rifkin
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In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school.
– Gaylord Nelson
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In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.
– Bjorn Lomborg
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In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.
– David Suzuki
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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.
– Wangari Maathai
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In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.
– Barry Commoner
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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
– Wangari Maathai
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In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.
– Garrett Hardin
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If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.
– David Suzuki
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If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.
– Danny Glover
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If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.
– James Lovelock
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If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.
– William Bartram
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If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.
– Nina Fedoroff
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If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
– Joseph Wood Krutch
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If China is helping its domestic industries charge an artificially low price for solar panels and other environmental goods, then China is violating international trade rules that it agreed to when it became a member of the World Trade Organization.
– Ron Wyden
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I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.
– Jimmy Carter
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I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following.
– Maurice Strong
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I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.
– David Frum
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I'd say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind.
– Corey Feldman
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I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.
– Kevin Richardson
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I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
– Al Gore
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I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts.
– Aisha Tyler
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I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.
– Harri Holkeri
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I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.
– Brian Mulroney
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I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.
– Al Gore
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I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.
– Bernard Sanders
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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
– Ted Turner
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I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.
– Paul Hawken
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I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.
– Joe Barton
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I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.
– Luther Burbank
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I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.
– Jay Inslee
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I really believe in the environmental movement right now - it only takes a little effort to make a big difference.
– Brooke Burke
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I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.
– Mackenzie Crook
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I hope that in future Congresses there will reemerge a recognition that climate change is a reality, that our policies to meet our energy needs must also deal responsibly with environmental issues, including the damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions.
– Jeff Bingaman
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I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
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I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry.
– Frank Murkowski
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I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.
– Jim Fowler
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I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.
– Jello Biafra
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I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.
– Ace Frehley
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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
– Isaac Bashevis Singer
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I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history.
– Jared Diamond
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
– Pat Buckley
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I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn't pose a serious environmental issue.
– John Hickenlooper
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I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.
– Maurice Strong
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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
– Vince Cable
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I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.
– Vivienne Westwood
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Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.
– Dan Lipinski
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Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.
– Sherwood Boehlert
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Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?
– Jeff Goodell
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Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
– Aldo Leopold
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Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.
– Anna Lindh
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Furthermore, both Pennsylvania and New Jersey Departments of Environmental Protection have evaluated the sediment to be dredged and also found it to be not toxic.
– Robert Brady
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Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.
– Gaylord Nelson
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Fracking is doable if there's full disclosure of all chemicals used. Secondly, science dictates the policy rather than politics. Third, there's collaboration between environmental groups and the natural gas industry.
– Bill Richardson
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For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals.
– Alexandra Paul
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Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.
– Jared Diamond
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Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.
– Joan Jett
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Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.
– Barry Commoner
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Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.
– Jim Clyburn
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
– Barry Commoner
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Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.
– Jim Clyburn
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Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.
– James Fallows
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Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.
– Warren Christopher
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Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.
– Vivienne Westwood
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Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
– Barry Commoner
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During my travels in Iraq, Israel, Gaza, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Europe and all over the United States, I have seen and heard the voices of people who want change. They want the stabilization of the economy, education and healthcare for all, renewable energy and an environmental vision with an eye on generations to come.
– Michael Franti
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Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan.
– Jane D. Hull
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Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
– Aldo Leopold
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Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
– Bill Nye
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Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.
– Muhammad Yunus
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Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.
– Alan Dundes
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By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
– Aeschylus
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By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
– Barry Commoner
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