Quotes About Environment

Young people are already leading on climate action. I see it at rallies to reject the Keystone XL dirty tar sands pipeline. I see it in the push to demand justice for communities being run over by fracking operations.

In my judgment, the president should reject Keystone and step up natural gas exports.

'Farscape' is a story about family. It's a story about creating life in a harsh environment. That's what a lot of people relate to in the story.

We are going to learn how to relate to the Earth and our own natural environment here by looking seriously at space colony ecologies.

I have allergies, and I've had my share of nosebleeds, but that's usually related to pollen.

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

There is no doubt that environmentally related diseases will continue to pose problems in the future.

Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.

The mind-brain is lived only from a first-person perspective, and it is a dynamic, plastic organ that changes in relation to the environment.

Many rich people in China made their fortunes by damaging natural resources and building corrupt relations with the government.

I think the relationship of indigenous people to their environment... that those were ethical omnivores.

I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal.

All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population.

Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.

Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.

For relatively modest amounts of sulfur dioxide injected into the atmosphere, you could easily cool Earth by 1% or more, if you want.

The way to make the world a better place, through your eating, is simply to eat a bit less meat. Local is sometimes good, sometimes bad. But even when it's good, its environmental impact is relatively small compared to other possible improvements.

Real short- and long-term rates were relatively high in the late-1990s, so financial excess can also arise without a low-rate environment.

It felt like I was the only one who cared about the climate and the ecological crisis. My parents didn't care about it, my classmates didn't care about it, my relatives didn't care about this. I mean nobody I knew cared about this and I felt like I was the only one.

I'm not a neat freak. I don't mind things being messy but I mind them being dirty. I just can't relax in a dirty environment. I like things organized.

By modulating the amount of blue in our environment, we can help people to relax, or to be alert; to fall asleep, or to stay awake.

Don't think about work in your bedroom or relaxation area.

Just having plants around helps with your mood. You feel relaxed.

Great negotiations happen when people are relaxed, so a relaxing environment is important. A high-energy environment tenses people up. It closes them up. You're not as likely to get that concession.