Quotes About Environment

On 'Far North,' we were always aware of being at the whim of mother nature. She's the biggest star in the film.

Caves are whimsical things, and geology on a local scale is random and unpredictable.

I am now certain that we have no alternative but to reduce urgently the levels of carbon that we are still pumping into the atmosphere as though tomorrow simply didn't matter. If we don't act collectively and individually, our children and their children will reap a whirlwind which will obliterate their civilisation.

We really have the most beautiful planet in our solar system. None other can sustain life like we know it. None other has blue water and white clouds covering colorful landmasses filled with thriving, beautiful, living things like human beings.

The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer's journey, shifts the emphasis from process to product, and lacks individuality and openness. It's not that art should be seen only in rutty bombed-out environments, but it should seem alive.

The white man is destroying the world.

When fully implemented, the EPA's Clean Power Plan will prevent up to 6,600 premature deaths and 150,000 juvenile asthma attacks annually.

When it comes to the population explosion, there are two questions on the table. One, is our population growth going to kill us all? And two, is there any ethical way to prevent that from happening?

There's clearly things you can do in your environment to try to prevent disease, and I want to know what those things are.

We might work on ways to prevent plastic getting into the ocean in the first place.

We have a fantastic array of birds of prey here in the U.K.

Octopus can fish for prey while deciding what color and pattern to turn, what shape to make their bodies, be on alert for predators and aware how far away their dens are.

The big problem for atomic energy is that it can't compete on price with the new age of cheap shale gas and, to a lesser extent, clean coal.

As the price of gas goes up, people will become more conscience of how much they use.

I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.

When historical relationships are taken into account, it is difficult to ascribe the house price bubble either to monetary policy or to the broader macroeconomic environment.

Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA.

We see the effects of climate change on food prices and in so many other ways.

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

I have come to the conclusion that capitalism is successful primarily because it can impose the majority of the costs associated with its economic activities on outside parties and on the environment.

I believe the director's primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created.

If I was prime minister, I would declare a state of emergency on climate change.

A low-water economy should rest on the principle that water be left in its natural state in the environment as much as possible. Every drop extracted must be justified. Every drop used must be recycled and reused whenever possible.

If I can help create an environment where the principles that I believe in can be implemented - to me, that's fulfilling.