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" Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble. "

Roger Tory Peterson

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Alexandra Fuller

" If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you. "

" From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change. "

" Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view. "

" We are called to care for those sickened by pollution, house those displaced by environmental calamities, and heal the spirits of those - especially our youth - who are disheartened by a world where human survival is now in question. "

Blase J. Cupich

" If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too. "

" Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity. "

" The way to make the world a better place, through your eating, is simply to eat a bit less meat. Local is sometimes good, sometimes bad. But even when it's good, its environmental impact is relatively small compared to other possible improvements. "

" There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. "

" Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity. "

" The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that story. "

" Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion. "

Alexander Cockburn

" There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet. "

Gary L. Francione

" One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.' "

" As the world's 'most dynamic' cities seek to manage their own urban growth, American state and local officials have much to offer. Our mayors can share their experiences in urban design, clean energy projects, Smart Grids, codes for energy efficient buildings, transportation safety, and innovative environmental solutions. "

" If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings. "

" Every drop in the ocean counts. "

" This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work. "

Natalie Jeremijenko

" Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. "

" I want to work on environmental issues. "

" Prior to the Industrial Revolution, hand-production methods were abundant. Craft defined everything. The craftsman had an almost phenomenological knowledge of materials and intuited how to vary their properties according to their structural and environmental characteristics. "

" Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans. "

" Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home. "

" Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them. "

G. Gordon Liddy

" My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late '60s and '70s, and I guess I've inherited that awareness from her. "

" The environmental movement does not always have to be about stopping things. It can be about fixing problems. "

" The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better. "

Jeremy Grantham

" Energy cogeneration on Capitol Hill makes economic and environmental sense and should be pursued for those reasons. "

" We've sued out-of-state power plants that are polluting our air and led a coalition of attorneys general from Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, and Massachusetts against efforts in the U.S. House of Representatives to remove critical environmental regulations that protect New York communities from toxic pollution. "

Eric Schneiderman

" The trends that are shaping the twenty-first-century world embody both promise and peril. Globalization, for example, has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty while contributing to social fragmentation and a massive increase in inequality, not to mention serious environmental damage. "