Quotes About Environment

Louisianians are sacrificial lambs to the entire American industrial system.

We're on this earth for a limited amount of time," he says, leaning on the edge of the window. "But if we get our souls saved, we got to Heaven, and Heaven is for eternity. We'll never have to worry about the environment from then on. That's the most important thing. I'm thinking *long-term*.

We need a new set of wheels. Something fast but inconspicuous will do," I said. "And not a hybrid. You know I hate the environment.

The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.

The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.

I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.

Seen from this perspective, our unstable environment is the essential wellspring of human evolution and change, and the more serious our environmental problems become, the more creatively we are responding to the challenge.

I discovered a long time ago that my happiness is not a condition of my circumstances. Rather, happiness is a choice, and I make it every day. While we cannot control the environment of change that is happening all around us, we can control how we respond to it. We can adapt. We can change. And we can still find happiness, no matter how dark the storms are around us.

We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.

North American civilization is one of the ugliest to have emerged in human history, and it has engulfed the world. Asphalt and exhaust fumes clog the villages…. This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see… the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the globe.

It's very clear that global climate change is occurring on earth, but it's also been very clear that that has always happened on earth. We've always had a changing climate on earth. We all know about ice ages. We know when our continent was covered with ice sheets. We know glaciers come and they go. It puzzles me that people forget that.

Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.

Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.

Quality of life is not only about what you find in the shops; it's about the landscape.

It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.

From day one of my administration, we have been committed to ensuring that New Hampshire's natural beauty - which is critical to our quality of life - is conserved and enhanced for the next generation.

The correlation of quality of life and cost of energy is huge.

If we moved from industrialized agriculture to re-localized organic agriculture, we could sequester about one quarter of the carbon moving into the air and destroying our glaciers, oceans, forests and lands.

The Full Sail crowd, it's a pretty unique and a pretty distinct environment. It's very close quarters and a bit more of what I'm used to from my days on the independents. But the truth is, I sometimes think that it's harder to win over a small crowd sometimes than it is to win over a big crowd.

Economic growth is the aggregate effect of the quest to accumulate capital and extract profit. Capitalism collapses without growth, yet perpetual growth on a finite planet leads inexorably to environmental calamity.

There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

If you can't buy a hybrid car, your first question should be, 'What is the fuel economy of this car?'