Quotes About Environment

I hope that 'Jaws' will have brought sharks into the public interest at a time when we desperately need to reevaluate our care for the environment.

I'm just interested in having a handle on my environment.

Your arms don't hang by your side in space like they do on Earth because there is no gravity. It feels awkward to have them floating in front of me.

I don't hang with polluters; I prosecute them.

The reality is that de-carbonisation is not happening fast enough.

Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.

When the manager comes in he cannot say, 'This is something I want to do.' It is an environment that the manager creates and it happens over time.

I could imagine that boats sailing in harbors will only use electric engines. And then once they are out in the water they will use diesel.

When I was growing up, the harbor was a place to dump things.

Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.

Like coal, capitalism has brought many benefits. But, like coal, it now causes more harm than good.

People want to feel good about the choices they make. They want to know they're choosing material that's not going to harm the environment.

As a Senator from Rhode Island, I wish that once - just once - the fossil fuel industry and their paid-for PR machine would concede that burning their product causes real harm to other people.

Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.

You want to live in harmony with nature and with each other.

You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from nature.

Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.

I'm one of those girls that cries at the drop of a hat. I'm oversensitive, if anything. I'm a mom. I'm very earthy, crunchy granola. I compost.

I hate when people litter.

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

I'm conflicted because I like being in deserts. I find them sort of cleansing, but there's another part of me that hates dust. And I particularly hate dust in cars, so it's a huge conflict going on there.

I grew up in an environment where I could see the kind of havoc alcohol can create.

Auto emission is hazardous and has to be controlled.

We find ourselves heading fully into an era of mass extinction.