Quotes About Environment

Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.

Fortified plant-based milks are delicious and contain all the calcium, protein, and vitamin D of dairy products but with none of the cholesterol, lactose, hormones, or cruelty found in cow's milk.

In terms of personal choices, let's all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.

I'm an advocate for alternative proteins, and I believe we can eat many.

Environmental degradation has one cause above all others: the propensity of human beings to take the benefit and leave the costs to someone else, preferably someone far away in space or time, whose protests can be safely ignored.

The seas need their own Kyoto Protocol.

I have a garden in my backyard that's completely organic, which I'm very proud of.

I think mobile homes are a blight on the planet. Attractive, affordable housing is possible, and I'm out to prove it.

We don't believe carbon capture is a proven, scalable, commercially available technology.

I have to build a new environment for the people. I will place them in ecozones and provide them assistance. I will build hospitals there. There will be economic activity.

Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control.

Outside—and, in one or two places, inside—the rain fell in torrents.

Despite their promises at the last Election, the politicians had not yet changed the climate.

And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.

Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity.

A sudden gust of rain blew over them and then another - as if small liquid clouds were bouncing along the land. Lightning entered the sea far off and the air blew full of crackling thunder. The table cloths blew around the pillars. They blew and blew and blew. The flags twisted around the red chairs like live things, the banners were ragged, the corners of the table tore off through the burbling billowing ends of the cloths.

As you first see him he wonders frequently whether he is not without honor and slightly mad, a shameful and obscene thinness glistening on the surface of the world like oil on a clean pond, these occasions being varied, of course, with those in which he thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows.

he wonders frequently whether he is not without honour and slightly mad, a shameful and obscene thinness glistening on the surface of the world like oil on a clean pond, these occasions being varied, of course, with those in which he thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment and somewhat more significant than anyone else he knows.

I read somewhere that the sun's getting hotter every year,' said Tom genially. 'It seems that pretty soon the earth's going to fall into the sun—or wait a minute—it's just the opposite—the sun's getting colder every year.

His idea of how the country was doing had been determined by the size of the butts he picked up off the sidewalk.

Su idea de cómo iban las cosas al país se medía por el tamaño de las colillas que recogía en la calle

As many as 1 million plant and animal species (of 8 million total) are threatened with extinction, some within a few decades.

80 billion animals are slaughtered for meat every year around the world. (And that doesn't even count fish.)

Most livestock—an estimated 99% in America, 74% around the world—comes from factory farms.