Quotes About Environment

There are parts of the Earth that are covered with pollution all the time. I saw weather that was unexpected. Storms bigger than we've seen in the past. This is a human effect. This is not a natural phenomenon.

I think we do have cyclic changes in weather, and I think that's been throughout the course of history.

Most conservatives choose God. The tree huggers choose weather, or preventing weather.

I love living in Los Angeles, because it's always perfect weather.

Climate change carries implications that stretch far beyond extreme weather, however. The effects on public health are far more alarming - and those have to be taken into account in order to calculate an accurate estimate of the costs of inaction.

I cycle, especially in warm weather. If I have a meeting in town, I would rather cycle than go by car.

The weather of the U.A.E. is phenomenal: very nice and clear.

When I was maybe eight or nine years old, I first learned about the climate crisis in school. My teachers taught me about it and we saw films and pictures of plastic in the ocean and extreme weather events. Those pictures were just stuck in my head; I thought, there is no point in anything.

We can see the weather change, that the birds don't come to the city anymore... we seriously have to think about preserving nature.

I do like Miami weather, but I miss the seasons a little bit too.

I like warm weather but not this sticky, humid heat of New York.

Africa is the most weathered continent in the world; 75 percent of its soil has been degraded. You don't just bring that back. I always like to say it's like putting an oxygen mask on a cadaver; it just isn't going to work.

I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.

The roots that weave up my right arm and onto my neck are my way of connecting with the earth: the earth's roots carry water like a human's veins carry blood.

The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many rules, that will stifle innovation.

We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

Look for when the environment is changing - the big shift now is mobile Internet. It's really happening big-time. The way you interact with services on a smart phone compared to the Web is quite different, so there's a huge opportunity.

Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.

Thanks to the social web, we can share and trade to use a whole universe of things we once had to buy ourselves. From cars to solar panels, people are realizing they can reap the benefits of ownership without the expense and hassle of buying.

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Basically, farm chemicals are labor-saving devices, and farmers who don't use them - weed killers especially - have to work harder or hire more help.

Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides.

If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can spray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn because it's producing a gene that makes it tolerant of the herbicide.