Quotes About Environment

It's about keeping animals in our environment. They can't be on somebody's purse or shoes or something.

When you pursue great flavor, you also pursue great ecology.

We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue.

Empowering people to pursue their journeys. That's our first mission. Put people into an environment where they can do that, and that creates the energy.

The city of the future development will be shifted from the pursuit of material civilisation to the pursuit of nature. This is what happens after human beings experience industrial civilisation at the expense of the natural environment.

Although our capacities to advance our interests are limited, we should be active and constructive in pursuit of a peaceful and favourable international environment.

In an environment where you've got to push innovations out the door fast and keep the cost of innovation low, the probability that you'll be successful is actually much higher.

I envisioned an extremely long network of floating barriers - they're like curtains floating in the ocean which are attached to the seabed. So what happens is that the current comes around and plastic gets pushed towards these barriers. And because it's in a V-shape, the plastic gets push towards the center.

As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton was an active promoter of increased resource extraction in Latin America, pushing both fracking and the privatization of petroleum production.

Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.

Just living out in California, it really puts you in a different mind frame.

I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.

Fracking is an amazing instance of discovery of many things that come together to make it much cheaper to extract oil and gas. In a world where burning oil and gas puts more and more carbon into the atmosphere, it's not actually the most important kind of innovation to have.

Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.

Publix operates in every county in Florida, and you get a county or municipality saying we don't want you putting your groceries in plastic bags, well, that's a problem.

Business is destroying the world, with flair, expertise, and panache.

I don't want to live in Los Angeles. The city depresses me! It is too flat. There are too many cars.

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

Give up the thought that you have control. You don't. The best you can do is adapt, anticipate, be flexible, sense the environment and respond.

Flint is a very tough place to live. The environment is definitely a different type of environment than anywhere else in the country, I feel like.

I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn't because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy.

All too often in tough economic times, it is the environment that gets left on the cutting room floors of Congress as everyone scraps for limited federal dollars.

Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.

There are characteristics of Central Florida you don't see anywhere else. It's quite beautiful.