Quotes About Environment

My aim is not just to help preserve what is left of mountain life, but to create a centre where people can study and learn about it.

It's important we preserve nature and allow our future generations to experience the best of it.

Our culture doesn't ask about preserving the essence of pig; it just asks how can we grow them faster, fatter, bigger, and cheaper. We know that's not a noble goal.

Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue.

President Obama is riding the wrong horse on energy.

President Obama wants a climate deal and is willing to pay dearly to get it.

It feels that while the young people are trying to fight for a world where there's equality, everyone's the same, everyone's helping each other, we want to take care of the planet... it seems like the people that are ruling and are being presidents right now want to do it the other way round.

Energy is probably the most pressing demand on our planet.

We're manufacturing to meet the demands of our own people but, in the meantime, for the entire world as well, and that definitely put a lot of extra pressure on our environment.

It will not matter, the pressure I always had it, I was mediated early, I learned to handle it, I got used to it and it's part of my environment.

My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.

The U.K. is pretty good at being environmentally conscious.

What I saw in my first year as secretary of state was a danger that if Britain didn't lead the way on climate change nothing would happen. I thought: If I don't lead, no one else is going to.

By appreciating the darkness when you design the light, you create much more interesting environments that truly enhance our lives.

I'm so excited to be part of the environment that David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Marcy Ross have built at Skydance.

It's nice to film in somewhere that you actually love being. Usually, you're in a studio for months on end, and you never see any daylight, so you really make the most of it.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

Conservation is now a dead word.

Our climate is changing. That's a fact, and we need to have a real debate about how we should respond to it.

My mom was a high school science teacher for decades. She just never made it feel like we had to choose between the arts and the sciences. We had bookshelves full of novels, and she also had Rachel Carson and Aldo Leopold and Carl Sagan.

The Commonwealth Games here are a model for what sport can, and should, be. It's an incredible environment and an amazing atmosphere. Without any doubt, they have lived up to the mantra of humanity, equality and decency.

I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on.

If you care about the health of the planet, you have to care about the health of its people, and if you really go deeper, it starts with the community of your family.

Defence must be more adaptable, able to respond quickly to the changes in the security environment and the character of conflict.