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

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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. "

" For the U.S., I think we should have a carbon tax, for environmental reasons. "

" My mates Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe have put together thirty one episodes of a really really nice podcast at Rice as part of the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The 'Cultures of Energy Podcast' is so good! "

" I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement. "

" As an environmental scientist, I think our first need is to feed and shelter and nurture. That has always required the exploitation of plant life, and it always will. "

" People who run environmental groups and things like that, who have to listen to all kinds of nonsense and keep their tempers, are very diplomatic and very inclusive. "

Sigourney Weaver

" Take air quality in the United States today: It's about 30 percent better than it was 25 years ago, even though there are now more people driving more cars. "

" Environmental justice, for those of you who may not be familiar with the term, goes something like this: no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other. "

" There's a lionfish cookbook put out by the Reef Environmental Educational Foundation, and it tells you how to catch them, how to clean them. "

" I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue - it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well. "

Frances Beinecke

" The 'environmental left' tells us that, though we have natural resources like natural gas and oil and coal, and though we can feed the world, we should keep those things in the ground, put up fences, and be about prohibition. "

" We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees. "

" All is connected... no one thing can change by itself. "

" I hope my work contributes to understanding long-term patterns of human behavior and how we survive, thrive, or fail during times of environmental, social, and economic crisis. "

" Each year, we learn that customer service diminishes. You may argue it's because the IRS budget has been cut, but I'm going to argue that it's because the IRS chooses to spend its funds in other areas like the Affordable Care Act, bonuses, and conferences. "

" The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics. "

" 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. "

" I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues. "

" 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. "

" Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent - a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice - that struggle continues. "

" 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. "

" Innate mechanisms endow the visual system with highly specific connections, but visual experience early in life is necessary for their maintenance and full development. Deprivation experiments demonstrate that neural connections can be modulated by environmental influences during a critical period of postnatal development. "

" 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. "

" We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us. "

" Ensuring ports are dredged is essential to securing America's place in global trade. "

" We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. "

William Ralph Inge

" I write a lot of environmental stories. "

" 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

" In 'Sidney's Comet,' thanks to all the consumerism, all the garbage had to be put in deep space, even though we're not supposed to litter the cosmos - that was an environmental message. Although it was funny, it had an important message. "

" I don't know of a single park without serious environmental problems. "