Quotes About Environment

When I can, I enjoy working with local people to involve everyone in the community in changing their environment.

I loathe crowds. I especially don't like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

When we talk about big issues like climate justice, of course that involves global and statewide implications. But it's also how we double our street-tree canopy to clean the air. It's converting to electric school buses. All of these issues at the city level start from the day-to-day impacts on people's lives.

Western countries have gone through their development cycle and enjoyed the fruits of ruining the environment over many years and are now giving us homilies and pontificating on responsibilities to the environment. I think they need to look inward.

When the iPhone came out, every CIO in America said, 'You're not bringing that into our corporate environment,' my CIO included.

If you look at my iPod, I've got so much different music. I think that it kind of describes me as a person, just being a chameleon to whatever particular environment that I'm in.

The most dangerous fundamentalists aren't just waging war in Iraq; they're attacking evolution, blocking medical research and ignoring the environment.

Bacteria mineralized the rocks; they deposited the iron. They made the geology we see.

Nothing that you make in the world exists in isolation from the social and political and ecological dimensions of it.

The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.

The Jacques Cousteau shows actually got me very excited about the fact that there's an alien world here on Earth.

My grandmother taught me the seasonality of food. She lived with the rhythms of nature. That's the way we should live. Why do we need raspberries in January flown from Chile?

I realized I had it made because you don't have to destroy anything to get honey. You can just use the same things over and over again, put it in a quart canning jar, and you've got $12.

When we did 'The Jewel In The Crown,' we filmed in India first so the actors had an idea of what the heat was like, what it did to you - it slows you down; it's weighty: the air that you breathe is full of humidity. You are aware of the fact that you're not in a studio in Manchester.

It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this is true. But government creates the environment in which businesses can excel and expand.

While Joe Biden continues to pander to campaign donors and extremist environmentalists, I'll continue to fight for jobs and the people of Colorado's Third District.

Conditions are always different here in Durban. Especially different from Johannesburg.

You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.

Everyone else has some interest in economic growth and development, which often happens at the expense of the environment and community. We need the other side to join this to check and balance.

I want that Tesla not because I care so much about global warming, but because it is trendy and expensive, and my neighbor is still driving a BMW.

Human beings do not enter into society and political life as a result of conscious, rational decision. Communal organization comes to them naturally, though the specific ways they cooperate are shaped by environment, ideas, and culture. Indeed

Studies of the interaction between genetic and environmental risks are pinpointing critical parts of our health that derive from environmental variables.

La 4T y el populismo llegaron a la Semarnat. Estamos en serios problemas.

En fin, instalado ya en el limbo ambiental, sin voluntad y conocimiento en el gobierno, ni recursos, ni visión o programa, México enfrenta una peligrosa y perturbadora regresión ambiental.