Quotes About Environment

When all is said and done, cheap gas is an illusion, because our reliance on gas creates a whole series of costs that aren't factored in to the pump price - among them congestion, pollution, and increased risk of accidents.

Ending our reliance on fossil fuels was never going to be easy.

Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

It was a long journey, but it was also a relief to see that first plastic being caught.

Protecting Americans from harm goes beyond police and national defense. It's imperative that we not destroy the commons, the physical environment on which we rely.

I think what helps enormously is the cultural environment that you have set. We constantly try to monitor it. When you have a base to work from that holds it together, that's something that you can go back to and rely on. A lot of is down to the consistency of work, the consistency of message and the consistency of the players' performances.

We should learn to live more with our climate and rely less on electricity to alter our climate.

Scientific careers rely on inheritance, environment, and random events, like all biological phenomena.

For the developed world, there is a choice to be made: to promote economic policies that despoil indigenous lands or to support cultures and the remaining biological sanctuaries.

Much remains to be learned about stratospheric chemistry - and, in more general terms, about the physics and chemistry of the global atmosphere.

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

To secure our future prosperity, we must do all that we can to make sure that Britain remains one of the safest and cleanest places in the world to do business.

Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is remarkably different. Every major scientific evaluation of GMO technology has concluded that GMOs are safe for human consumption and are a benefit to the environment.

Children learn and remember at least as much from the context of the classroom as from the content of the coursework.

I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.

Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.

We always have to remind ourselves of how fragile life on this planet is and what responsibilities we have.

The ThunderDome is great. I remember walking in the arena and I actually for a second thought that there were fans out there. I had to remind myself it's not actually live fans but it sounds like it and with the energy that environment brings, it's just amazing.

But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness.

I find it difficult to speak in remote places because it is so hot and dusty that I tend to choke.

Economic development is what's going to make mountaintop removal palatable.

Mountaintop removal coal operations enrich only a handful of elites while impoverishing everyone else in their proximity.

Garbage removal is a citizen responsibility.

If it can't be proven that mountaintop removal mining is safe, we shouldn't allow it to continue.