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" Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught. "
Victoria Principal
Environmental
Keep
Healthy
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" 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
" What I see are people who want affordable energy. They want strong environmental standards - they want a lot of things - but first and foremost they want affordable energy. And if you want affordable energy, you want oil, gas and coal. "
John S. Watson
Energy
People
Strong
" 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
Environmental
Change
" Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. "
Henry David Thoreau
Better
Environmental
Life
" If we allow responsible management of our forests and end the nonsense litigation from radical environmental groups, we can get our timber mills up and running, reduce the risk of wildfires, and ensure healthier forests and cleaner air. "
Matt Rosendale
Environmental
End
Risk
" Fossil fuel companies and their allies are funding a massive and sophisticated campaign to mislead the American people about the environmental harm caused by carbon pollution. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
People
American
Environmental
" Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks. "
Frank Murkowski
Standards
Risks
America
" Vegetarians have been around for a very long time - Pythagoreans forbade eating animals more than 2,500 years ago - but even as the environmental evidence mounted, they didn't appear to be winning the argument. "
Tristram Stuart
Time
Animals
Winning
" I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available. "
Howard Gardner
Parents
Environmental
Assuming
" So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions. "
Godfrey Reggio
Justice
Peace
Environmental
" I do comparative studies of climate evolution, and the interactions between planetary atmosphere and surfaces and their radiation environment, and try to understand the environmental factors that can affect a planet's habitability and how they change over time. "
David Grinspoon
Environment
Time
Environmental
" 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
" With EarthEcho Expedition: Acid Apocalypse, we are working with youth leaders and noted experts on the changing chemistry of our ocean to help illuminate one of our most pressing and inscrutable environmental issues. "
Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
Most
Ocean
Youth
" 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
Day
Time
Man
" The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult. "
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Nature
Real
Job
" If you look around the world, the countries with the best environmental practices are the wealthiest. There's a reason for that. If you're worried about where your next meal is going to come from or shelter over your head, your focus is on those things. "
John S. Watson
Focus
Environmental
Best
" There has been a banking crisis, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, a social crisis, a geostrategic crisis and an environmental crisis. That's considerable in a country that's used to being protected. "
Jean-Francois Cope
Financial
Used
Country
" My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone? "
Bruce Sterling
Park
Environmental
Great
" The fact is that the rich are getting richer while the poor are being left behind. Women remain under-represented in boardrooms and under-engaged in the global workforce. Environmental change is leaving the poorest countries vulnerable. Voters are becoming more and more politically polarised and partisan. "
Richard Quest
Change
Women
Rich
" The environmental movement's focus on the Keystone XL pipeline issue really used to baffle me. "
Matthew Yglesias
Focus
Used
Movement
" Take air quality in the United States today: It's about 30 percent better than it was 25 years ago, even though there are now more people driving more cars. "
Jared Diamond
Today
People
Environmental
" Environmental concerns and feminism are locked together. Generally, women have closer connections to the organic nature of our lives. "
Carolyn Kizer
Women
Environmental
Together
" I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us. "
Jim Fowler
Think
Plants
Environmental
" Businesses can lead with their values and make money, too. You don't have to simply be purely profit-driven. You can integrate social and environmental concerns into a business, be a caring business, be a generous business and still do very well financially. "
Jerry Greenfield
Environmental
Business
Money
" There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it. "
Clay Shirky
Problem
Environmental
Together
" There is a history of thinking about space science from an environmental ethics perspective. And part of what I want to do is turn that back and use that experience to see if it reflects how we think about the Earth. "
David Grinspoon
Perspective
Space
Science
" 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. "
Brian Mulroney
Environmental
New
Government
" Business has a way of talking about how to create value, which is in some way isn't bad... We just need to start thinking about if the value we want to create is consistent with all social and environmental well being. "
Peter Senge
Environmental
Thinking
Value
" You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere. "
Donella Meadows
You
Fool
Environmental
" A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues. "
Judith Rodin
Support
Environmental
Impact