Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" 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
Understanding
Environmental
Impossible
Related Quotes:
" As congressional Republicans and the Trump administration continue to attack the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), it came as no surprise that the House voted on two bills that would weaken emissions standards and, as a result, put our public health at risk. "
Seth Moulton
Result
Surprise
Environmental
" Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life. "
Roger Tory Peterson
Life
Beginning
World
" The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it. "
Jim Fowler
Environmental
Life
Quality
" 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
Environmental
Environment
Racism
" The potential in many environmental issues is that if you undertake corrective action without appropriate understanding of the problem, then you wind up doing more harm than good. "
Hugh Ross
Wind
Problem
Good
" All of us are going to have to find ways to do things more efficiently, find ways to get our costs more in line, and do it in a time of higher regulatory and environmental standards. "
N. Murray Edwards
Environmental
Line
Time
" 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
" I rarely fly, for environmental reasons more than anything else. "
Marcus Brigstocke
Fly
More
Than
" Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is nature's red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development. "
Li Keqiang
Environmental
Nature
Problem
" Our district is home to the Adirondacks, and we know firsthand that clean energy development and environmental protection are critical to our economy. "
Elise Stefanik
Know
Environmental
Energy
" My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late '60s and '70s, and I guess I've inherited that awareness from her. "
Robin McLeavy
Environmental
Late
Mom
" From 1859 to 1971, the U.S. oil industry grew virtually continuously, in the process serving mightily to drive our economy and win our wars. But that growth was stopped dead in 1971 and sent into decline thereafter, as the advent of the EPA and the accompanying National Environmental Policy Act made it increasingly difficult to drill. "
Robert Zubrin
Environmental
Win
Oil
" Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation. "
John Sununu
Environmental
Business
Innovation
" No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you. "
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Environmental
Path
Birth
" We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand. "
Christopher Dodd
Environmental
Protection
Hand
" Businesses typically look at issues like price, quality, time of delivery. They don't often think about social and environmental impact because they're focused on their financial bottom line. "
Jerry Greenfield
Time
Think
Quality
" There is a reason and a need to have an Environmental Protection Agency. "
Scott Pruitt
Environmental
Need
Protection
" 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. "
Brian Herbert
Funny
Space
Deep
" 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
Education
Start
Environmental
" When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved. "
Gro Harlem Brundtland
More
Resources
Other
" It seems to me like Mother Nature's mercy and forgiveness have run dry, as we ceaselessly abuse her and take her for granted in order for us to continue our addiction to using fossil fuels. I've gotta say, I don't blame her. Not one bit. "
Gloria Reuben
Mother
Nature
Me
" People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves. "
Robert Collier
Blame
Environmental
People
" The problem with holistic management is it's so profoundly simple, but it's not easy. And it's profoundly simple. You're almost insulting people's intelligence to explain it twice, just about making better decisions of where you want to go in your life, bringing in environmental, social, economic issues simultaneously. "
Allan Savory
Life
Decisions
Intelligence
" 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
" Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all. "
James D. Watson
Environmental
Create
DNA
" A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs. "
Matt Gonzalez
Best
Environmental
Challenge
" 'Sue and settle' involves the creation of environmental rules and regulations through lawsuits filed by environmental groups against the EPA, not through Congress or proper rule-making. "
Scott Pruitt
Rules
Environmental
Creation
" Building a 'Green Gabon' has always been a central pillar of my government, and in 2014, I introduced a new legal framework that puts environmental protection and sustainable development firmly at the heart of our future economic growth. "
Ali Bongo Ondimba
Future
Environmental
Heart
" 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
Impact
Environmental
You
" For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals. "
Alexandra Paul
Me
Decision
Animals