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" The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be. "
Lindsey Graham
Energy
Better
Environmental
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" Fossil fuels will run out not because of limited resources but because of the environmental impact. If I can solve that impact, I have basically increased the resource base by a vast amount. "
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" No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you. "
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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" Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes, but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life. "
Radhanath Swami
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" Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies. "
Garrett Hardin
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" And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over. "
Ed Rendell
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" If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. "
Henry David Thoreau
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Time
Man
" To avoid congestion, I get up at 5:10, grab a slice of raisin toast, and leave the house at 6 A.M. My husband, Tim Dunn, who works for an environmental agency, is still asleep when I slip out, and I find that rather annoying. "
Ellen Stofan
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" I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot be postponed. "
Mikhail Gorbachev
Think
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Problem
" I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment. "
David Frum
Rich
Me
Government
" We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida. "
Natalie Jeremijenko
Ignore
Environmental
Slow
" All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger. "
Lynn Margulis
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Food
Plants
" The environmental movement does not always have to be about stopping things. It can be about fixing problems. "
Mark Kurlansky
Always
Environmental
Problems
" Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known; restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state. "
Matt Gonzalez
Washington
Mine
Environmental
" If you increase taxes now on - at any level, it's going to make it harder to create jobs And we've lost 2 1/2 million jobs since the stimulus package passed. We're at 9.6 unemployment. So I don't think we tax too little, I think we spend too much. "
Lindsey Graham
Lost
Now
Too Much
" I feel it is urgently necessary to train people who are capable of tackling the various problems we face today in regards to environmental turmoil and the relevancy of clothing. "
Issey Miyake
Face
People
Feel
" President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve. "
Lindsey Graham
Great
Said
Leadership
" We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible. "
Ma Jun
Laws
Weak
Impossible
" The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should. "
Samuel Wilson
Well
Health
Environmental
" In May 2007, congressional Democrats and the Bush administration agreed to a plan to include environmental and international labor standards in upcoming trade agreements. "
Nina Easton
Democrats
Plan
Labor
" Good environmental policy is good economic policy. "
Bernie Sanders
Environmental
Economic
Policy
" Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment. "
Gale Norton
Environmental
Innovation
Help
" I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. "
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Environmental
Did
Vegetarian
" Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth. "
Peter Benchley
Environmental
Life
Without
" 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. "
Torsten Wiesel
Environmental
Experience
Life
" The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health - is to address the unending, and unequal, growth of the human population. And the one proven way to reduce fertility rates is to empower young women by educating them. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Environmental
Growth
Health
" Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource. "
T. Boone Pickens
Transportation
Environmental
Better
" All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies. "
David Attenborough
Hope
Say
I Can
" Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. "
Norman Borlaug
Earth
Environmental
Salt
" Incredibly, oil and gas companies don't have to pay certain environmental costs that amount to small change to them, while an offshore wind project start-up is faced with fees that could mean the difference between building a wind farm and packing up and going home. "
Chellie Pingree
Home
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" 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
Religion
Animal
Devil