Quotes About Environment

But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude.

My obsession with cars is based on my obsession with the environment. Food, housing and transportation are the three big human and environmental issues. That's where most of our resources go and where most of our pollution is generated...Transportation is the big elephant in the bedroom that no one wants to seriously discuss. (from an interview in Attitude, 2002)

For me, politics are a fundamental element of being human. They are the process by which we collectively interact with each other, resolve conflicts and try to solve larger social or environmental problems. There are family politics, neighborhood politics, local politics, national politics and international politics. Humans are political animals and I find those interactions interesting, amusing and important. (2014 interview with iamhiphop)

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.

My dream: to be able to drive a virus-powered car.

I got the wake-up call that no one is policing our oceans. I wondered, how can I do anything? What really can I do to make things better? There are some perks to being a celebrity. My job is to be funny once in a while, but it's my responsibility to make good use of it.

Life was simple when you were a Shield Bug.

pooper scooper (also poop scoop)

long before medical science came along to offer any compensation for the entrapments of the modern social design. When a woman chooses whether or not to reproduce, the earth itself is choosing. With or without confirmation from man, this is the reality that the earth lives every day.

Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minute its hot and the next minute its cold, so a person never knows what to hock.

The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.

We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go.

I actually don't think Ireland has a summer. I never experienced a summer there. It was just so wet.

Practically the whole world depends on coral reefs, so if the coral reefs get all killed, then the ocean will start going out of whack, and if the ocean goes out of whack, something might happen on land.

Our priorities are out of whack. We spend too much to protect birds and fish at the expense of people.

People get very passionate about saving the whale, but when something like a Florida indigo snake is endangered there are not a lot of people out there holding up placards.

I will not watch a whale die. I've not seen a whale die since I left Greenpeace in 1977.

People sometimes feel frustrated about what's going on in our oceans and environment, and 'Whale Wars' shows that ordinary people can take action and make things happen.

The fin whale is the second largest whale species on Earth, weighing up to 80 tons.

We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.

The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males.

Despite humans killing off whales as much as they could, give it time and they come back. If we give nature a chance, it will regenerate.

My clients are the whales and the seals.

When whales die, their bodies sink to the bottom of the ocean and over time become part of the marine sediment layer, where they can sequester the carbon dioxide they have accumulated during their life span, an average of 33 tons for a great whale species, keeping it out of the atmosphere for hundreds or thousands of years.