Quotes About Environment

Since I was 5, I was bitten by the bug of designing. It was all around me in my home.

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

I wouldn't want anyone to destroy the earth.

Vaca Diez, do not destroy our country!

The planet will get better; it's us that won't be here because we'll destroy the environment.

We often destroy ecology-based livelihoods in the name of employment creation.

Resources are being destroyed, and if you don't have resources, you can't do business.

I will end the lawlessness that's destroying our environment. I will take polluters to court, not to lunch.

Capitalism is destroying the world.

We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans.

Even the wealth of the U.S. cannot protect against the levels of environmental destruction that we are unleashing.

Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.

The climate continues to deteriorate.

I do absolutely believe that the climate is changing. I'm not prepared to determine causation.

Once you develop your own style, you know when you're able to give your best. Feeling at home is part of it, and I don't think that's an L.A. thing. It's a matter of the environment and of what affects you.

We are not overpopulated in an absolute sense; we've got the technology for 10 billion, probably 15 billion people, to live on this planet and live good lives. What we haven't done is developed our technology.

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

By far, the most disabling thing in my life is the physical environment. It dictates what I can and can't do every day.

I'd like to see the bay cleaned up before I die.

I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water.

Filter from your tap, and if you do occasionally buy the bottles, please recycle.

We need to close the tap, which means preventing more plastic from reaching the ocean in the first place.

The concentration of plastic is rapidly increasing in the gyres. Even if you were to close off the tap, and no more plastic entered the ocean, that plastic would stay there, probably for hundreds of years.

India is criss-crossed with the most elegant wells that tap into the shallow aquifer.