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" There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement. "

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" I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator. "

" 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. "

" We've sued out-of-state power plants that are polluting our air and led a coalition of attorneys general from Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, and Massachusetts against efforts in the U.S. House of Representatives to remove critical environmental regulations that protect New York communities from toxic pollution. "

Eric Schneiderman

" Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy. "

" Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around. "

" We know that the environment and political information is important, and we expose and teach the women about some of the environmental factors that lead to their incarceration. "

" Like the other great revolutions, an environmental revolution will require sacrifices and lead to enormous gains. It, too, will change the face of the land and human institutions, hierarchies, self-definitions, cultures. It will take centuries. If it happens. There is no guarantee, of course. "

Donella Meadows

" Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. "

" Environmental pollution, terrorism, and many other global threats do not stop at borders. We all bear global responsibility and thus need a global identity to enable us to cope with them. We must learn to integrate different levels of identity in ourselves. What matters is not either/or, but both/and. "

" We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. "

" From a planning perspective, economic degradation begets environmental degradation, which begets social degradation. "

" Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty. "

" Shrimp farms are a scourge on the earth, frankly, from an environmental point of view. They pour huge amounts of pollutants into the ocean. They also pollute their next-door neighbors. "

" We have very strong environmental laws in the United States and elsewhere around the world. The problem is that they're seldom enforced. "

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

" In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families. "

Wangari Maathai

" At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about, we don't have environmental cases against us, we don't have a series of outdoor-advertising companies. "

Keith Olbermann

" Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. "

" Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be nuclear, environmental or terrorism-related. "

Marianne Williamson

" 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. "

" 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

" I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach. "

Kevin Richardson

" Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses. "

" Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio. "

" We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease. "

Simon Mainwaring

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" We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible. "

" 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. "

" There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems. "

Edward James Olmos

" No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means. "

" I think there's a green side to John Kerry, if you like, that he's an environmental activist. His record on the environment is as best as you have on a pro-environment record of anybody in the U.S. Senate. "

Douglas Brinkley

" 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. "