Quotes About Environment

I was born in Mullens, West Virginia, and lived in a community called Iroquois in Appalachia. We faced heavy pollution. Our water came from the Sweeney Watershed, which meant we essentially drank acid mine drainage.

We're talking about a chemical that's out there. Not just on one farm in West Virginia, not even just in the public water of an entire community there, but it's now in water all over the country, all over the planet, in the blood of virtually every living thing.

Five states - Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina - have been identified by the EPA as contributing significantly to Rhode Island pollution. As of 2010, 284 tall smokestacks - stacks over 500 feet - were operating in the United States: needles injecting poison into the atmosphere.

It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.

West Virginia has consistently been ranked at or near the bottom amongst all states for our regulatory environment by publications such as Forbes and CNBC. This is an area where we need to improve.

We need to develop multiple lakes within West Virginia, multiple lakes that can give us hydroelectric power - which maybe we don't need, but at the same time, they can give us flood control.

West Virginia has miles and miles of pristine waters.

I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities.

It's pretty obvious that Western lifestyles which rely on gigantic amounts of electricity use up far more resources than a subsistence-based life. A little more poverty would be a good thing.

We must stop trying to protect our planet from every imaginable, exaggerated or imaginary risk. And we must stop trying to protect it on the backs, and the graves, of the nation's and world's most powerless and impoverished people.

My brain power depends on my retained mastery of analyzing in detail what's happening in my world and in my mind and body. I must continue to practice to retain my constructive and analytic powers. The goal is to be a master of my environment.

It is time to get rid of the harmful and dangerous practice of offshore drilling once and for all.

So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.

Environmentally friendly business practices have long been mainstream, particularly when they create a brand advantage, as with organic foods.

Like everybody I needed to learn to be a coach, I needed to practise that and make mistakes in a decent environment where I could develop myself and not fear I was going to lose my job.

I'm not pro-fracking. But sometimes there's got to be some pragmatism.

It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek... is like a beautiful opera, but way better.

In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.

Crocs are apex predators, and as with all apex predators, they are critical to the environment: if you lose the crocs, you'll lose the barramundi, you'll lose the crabs - a catfish can eat 30,000 barramundi fingerlings, and who do you think eats the catfish? Crocs.

Marine scientists predict that by 2050 there will be no more large fish left in the ocean if we don't change our relationship with the sea.

I didn't feel as though, when I was a child, I had much control of my environment. I felt powerless. And that gave me a sense of predictability.

The Clean Energy Jobs legislation will provide predictability and certainty for large carbon emitters.

The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.

My faith in the economic potential of the low carbon economy is not an untested prediction.