Quotes About Environment

Climate change is absolutely real and if you don't believe that you ought to believe every four-star general in our military is planning for it.

Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn't be done in an office.

British Columbia's got one of the most ambitious climate change plans in North America.

I'm a plant eater.

As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.

If you own a chemical plant and leak a little benzene, you're in big trouble because everyone knows how carcinogenic it is. But coming out of a tailpipe? The government never does anything about that.

'Bloom' is basically the idea that all flesh is grass, and that we can look at natural plant growth and organic material as outgrowths of the Earth.

To be able to buy a plant and plant it, that's a luxury to me.

When the British ruled Malaysia, they burnt millions of acres of Malaysian forests so that they could plant rubber.

Anytime we make additional investment in a coal plant, we are really challenging whether that investment is economic.

The benefits of letting produce finish on their plant, in its natural environment, is undeniable.

Under the guidance of the former President of India, APJ Abdul Kalam, I have been doing this green initiative. My aim is to plant 1 crore sapling in Tamil Nadu.

Throughout Africa, as in much of the world, women are responsible for tilling the fields, deciding what to plant, nurturing the crops, and harvesting the food. They are the first to be aware of environmental damage that harms agricultural production.

Yes, the '60s went too far, but we were trying to find new ways, better ways, to do things. And great seeds were planted: civil rights, the peace movement, the environmental movement, feminism. They're big seeds. They take a long time to come to fruition. Please, let's stop fighting, and get out our water cans.

I got busy with planting saplings after I started the Green Globe initiative.

Lady Bird Johnson did more than plant flowers in public places. She served the country superbly by planting environmental values in the minds of the nation's leaders and citizens.

These nuclear plants are more dangerous than people realize.

Like the ocean, land plants hold about three times as much carbon as the atmosphere. While oceans take many centuries to exchange this mass with the air, flora take only a few years.

If I had my dream, we'd all be eating more plants and less garbage.

The photosynthesis we see with plants is not very efficient. Algaes are more efficient.

Coal is cheap, but up to what extent are we going to allow coal plants to operate?

When most people talk about biofuels, they talk about using oils or grease from plants.

I can never waste water. If I cannot drink it I will use it to water the plants and I will never waste food. If it is inedible it goes on the compost heap.

Styrofoam and plastic milk jugs are biodegradable! Do you know what isn't biodegradable? Paper!