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" The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies. "

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" No major technological change has ever been instituted by mankind without an array of negative consequences. The motor car has meant liberation for millions, but it has also caused congestion, environmental damage, and a disturbing death toll on the roads. "

" It's obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. It's vanity of a grotesque kind to believe that mankind, and our 'carbon footprint', has more impact on the future of Earth than Nature, which bends our planet to its will, as it sees fit. "

Charles Saatchi

" Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is dying, our soils are eroding, our water tables falling, our fisheries are being depleted, our remaining rainforests shrinking. Something is very, very wrong with our eco-system. "

" Although environmental groups sometimes raise issues in the confirmation process, environmental protection is not central to the fear-mongering of the liberal interest groups that oppose conservative judges. But the threat to basic environmental protections from conservative jurisprudence is broad-based and severe. "

Benjamin Wittes

" 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. "

" What is true environmentalism? I think it's environmental stewardship - not prohibition. "

" I've been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children's charities over the years. "

Martina Navratilova

" If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just. "

" The Environmental Protection Agency rarely follows up prosecuting coal companies and their fellow polluters, even when the evidence is clear-cut that they are dumping and poisoning entire towns near their projects, and the state regulators are even worse. "

" If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that. "

Ellen DeGeneres

" I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market. "

" The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise and 80 percent of the air pollution in our cities, and the industry must face mounting pressure from environmentalists. "

" Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues. "

" Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. "

" We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year. "

" Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change. "

" The market controls everything, but the market has no heart. "

" Transparency, accountability and sustainability have become the slogans of the market leaders. Companies carry out environmental and social audits to court the consumer, and even the bluest chips woo organisations such as Greenpeace and Amnesty. "

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

" Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues. "

" Helping people understand the impact of key environmental and human issues worldwide is something that I'm passionate about. CNN's 'Going Green' series of specials are engaging viewers around the world through important messages of conservation and hope. "

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

" I write a lot of environmental stories. "

" Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. "

" There is no better example of the overreach of government than in environmental law. "

" 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

" Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates. "

" We'll continue to see more and more brands integrate social causes, charitable components and environmental issues as underlying themes to their campaigns and messaging. Humans connect with humans after all, and brands are using this as a point of connection to engage with their audience, especially charity-minded Generation Y. "

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

" The growth that we want is one that brings real benefits to the people, raises quality and efficiency of development, and contributes to energy conservation and environmental protection. "

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