Quotes About Environment

No one can pretend to say that a fish is ever killed by heat, for many kinds of fish, in the middle of summer, and in the burning heat of the sun, do either play, as it were, on the surface of the water, or hide themselves under the leaves, weeds, or other substances at the bottom.

If you are walking through the hood and you notice the cracks in the sidewalk where all the weeds, pebbles, dirt and grit settle in, that's me.

Some plants become weeds simply by virtue of their success rather than any other factor. You merely want less of them.

One of the first things that I tried doing in terms of taking action on a personal level was trying this campaign called meatless Mondays' so one day a week I would try to adopt a plant-based diet.

Fragmentation is a big part of the problem. You have a city where trash is taken away from the curb every week, and you don't see it any more, and you don't have any sense of where water comes from. So there's no sense of responsibility and accountability and there's also no sense of empowerment for our actions.

Where I grew up in Vermont, there is no municipal garbage removal. You have to bring your trash to the dump every weekend. Something like three hours on Saturday morning, the entire town goes in. It is actually a very efficient place to do politics. I would go to the garbage dump, get petitions signed, give out literature, talk to voters.

All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it.

Too many members of Congress seem willing to give corporate polluters, many of whom happen to be major political donors, a free pass to poison the air.

What happened with Keystone is it actually poisoned the well for other pipelines that are not as controversial.

My grandfather, born in 1865, was a copper miner from the age of 10. The air down the mines was poisoned with arsenic, and working conditions were horrific. They only had candles for light, so they worked in a pitch-black environment.

Corporations are poisoning our air and water while at the same time lining the pockets of elected officials with political contributions.

We can make a concerted effort to stop poisoning the planet: that would be a good way of appeasing the gods.

I'd rather write about polar bears than people.

I don't think there's any way we can save the polar bears.

In the grand scheme of things, polar bears are the least of our problems when it comes to climate change.

I like the idea of going to see the ice caps and the polar bears, because who knows how long they are going to be around for?

I've always thought of nuclear as something that's good for the environment. I worry about my polar bears.

My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.

Where I live in Connecticut was ice a mile above my house, all the way back to the North Pole, about 15 million kilometers, that's a big ice cube. But then it started to melt. We're talking about the floods of our living history.

On 15 July 2007, I swam across an open patch of sea at the North Pole to highlight the melting of the Arctic sea ice.

In the Andes and the Alps, I have seen melting glaciers. At both of the Earth's Poles, I have seen open sea where ice once dominated the horizon.

If we're concerned about climate change as a country, we should have policies that make sure our great-grandchildren have a planet that's healthy and strong.

We can't double down on the failed energy policies of the past.

More climate-friendly, coordinated laws, policies, and incentives are needed.