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" I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy. "
Al Gore
Energy
Environmental
Transition
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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
Change
Future
Hope
" 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. "
Bernie Sanders
Justice
People
Struggle
" You want to keep the severity of our environmental problems in mind enough to keep yourself motivated but not enough to paralyze you into depression. "
Sara Gilbert
You
Yourself
Environmental
" GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It's not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to. "
Zac Goldsmith
Food
Environmental
Control
" There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. "
Annie Dillard
Spiritual
Wind
Environmental
" Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. "
Barry Commoner
Life
Art
Education
" We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy. It's just not in usable form yet. "
Peter Diamandis
Year
Environmental
World
" I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement. "
Ted Turner
Think
Captain
Environmental
" 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
Chance
Better
Me
" 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
Environmental
World
Situation
" We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources. "
Paul Hawken
Environmental
Better
True
" If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings. "
Mitch Kapor
History
You
Look
" In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around. "
Ike Skelton
Environment
Land
Best
" From a planning perspective, economic degradation begets environmental degradation, which begets social degradation. "
Majora Carter
Environmental
Perspective
Planning
" I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century. "
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Believe
I Believe
Force
" EPA's role is even broader than water infrastructure and cleaning up contaminated land - the agency also has a key role in allowing projects to move forward by reviewing environmental impact statements during the permitting process. "
Scott Pruitt
Process
Impact
Environmental
" By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth. "
Barry Commoner
Environmental
Control
Quality
" You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category. "
Al Gore
Old
Know
You
" We tend to be more environmental at home than at work, regardless of the industry we're in. "
Gale Anne Hurd
Than
More
Home
" When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done! "
Dennis Weaver
Environment
Up
Environmental
" We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory. "
Walter Cronkite
Victory
Great
Leadership
" I've won some awards. 'Time' magazine designated me as one of the environmental heroes of the 20th century. Oh, and I've got some honorary citizenships, like from the Conch Republic of the Florida Keys. But the one thing I am proud of is I didn't get the Chevron environmental award. Never did get that one. "
Paul Watson
Environmental
I Am
Me
" I've long believed the environmental issue is an economic issue and a political issue. The three are entwined. You can't build prosperity on any basis other than a long-term basis, and you can't do that if you don't have a healthy environment. "
Henry Paulson
Healthy
Political
Environmental
" 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. "
Edith Widder
Foundation
You
Environmental
" A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government. "
Al Gore
Government
Structure
President
" I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies. "
Paul Krugman
New
Environmental
Think
" We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.' "
Ban Ki-moon
Two
Resources
Environmental
" I have heard over and over again that the drilling business is a dangerous business, and death is an expected part of the game, but I've also heard of the way that safety violations, human and environmental laws, and a concern for the local culture are flaunted in pursuit of money. "
Alexandra Fuller
Culture
Money
Safety
" What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes to actually toss it? Or the ten-thousand-year history of the fossil fuel being burned to drive to work or iron a shirt? It may be environmentally progressive, but it's not altogether pleasant. "
Douglas Rushkoff
Drive
Environmental
History
" The environmental movement's focus on the Keystone XL pipeline issue really used to baffle me. "
Matthew Yglesias
Focus
Used
Movement