Quotes About Environment

We spend a lot of time playing defence against bad things. So, in the US, one of the focusses has been this huge Keystone Pipeline project, another has been the coal ports on the Pacific Ocean.

At least I sure hope it will - and I see good signs all the time, especially in things like the rise of local agriculture.

A house should look after itself - as the weather heats up the house cools down, as the weather cools down the house heats up. It's simple stuff, you know? We've known how to do it for a long time.

I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.

The only biodiversity we're going to have left is Coke versus Pepsi. We're landscaping the whole world one stupid mistake at a time.

Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?

For the first time American astronauts on the International Space Station ate vegetables grown in space. In other words, even space is getting more rain than California.

I would hate to be a bee. Be surrounded by bees all the time.

We are all prisoners of our time and place.

How about that oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico. And you know, the oil slick is going everywhere. So the next time somebody lands on the Hudson, it won't be that big a deal.

More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.

I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on the train, among people. As a writer you spend so much time away from people.

The destruction of the earth's environment is the human rights challenge of our time.

The highest and best use of our time that really matters over the next decade will be working to elect clean-energy candidates, especially in swing states and swing districts around the country.

In that Freak Show environment, I got to spend time with so many of the actors who were part of that world. I just had the best time ever.

I was interested in the environment from when I was a little kid. I spent most of my time hunting and fishing and kayaking.

Do you know we have more acreage of forest land in the United States today than we did at the time the Constitution was written?

I have come to believe that extracting natural gas from shale using the newish technique called hydrofracking is the environmental issue of our time. And I think you should, too.

We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise made and kept is difficult to overstate.

Any time a body goes outside the environmental conditions for which it developed it has to acclimate.

Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.

The earth is warming at an alarming rate, we are running out of fossil fuels, and it is long past time for us to take action to correct these problems.

In five years' time at this pace global warming becomes irreversible.

And now it's your turn - the time to answer the greatest challenge of our existence on this planet is now.