Quotes About Environment

The paradigm I want to change is that, you can have a car that is beautiful, manufacturable, affordable, safe, fast, and oh, by the way, does 100 mpg, or its energy equivalent. Why wouldn't you?

The real problem is that we use too much oil. It's that simple and that difficult. If we truly want to reduce our vulnerability to high prices, the best way to do so is to reduce consumption.

If you live in a squalid environment, then of course you are going to want to get out of it, you are probably going to want to get into the country, because that's what it does.

Caring about the environment has always been a big part of my life. When you grow up in a really beautiful place and you hear that it is jeopardised you want to do something.

Each environment has its own signature. Sound tells a story: You make choices about what you're hearing, where to look, how you want to feel about what's going on.

I find it difficult to breathe when l'm in the space. There seems to be no oxygen. I want to put people into a situation where they're sensitive to themselves watching the piece.

Your environment will become you. Surround yourself with people who have the same dream as you, who have accomplished what you want & more.

I don't mind 800 million Chinese drinking a bottle [of Coca-Cola] a day, but I don't want them to bring back the empties.

And my parents made me want i am. So what? We get stuff from our parents, but we also get stuff from the world around us. From people around us. And at the end of the day, we're us.

I think the American people in many cases want to transform our energy system.

I do not go outdoors. Not more than I have to. As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.

What about our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren? Do we not want them to live healthy and happy lives?

I've learned that if you want people to join in any kind of conservation effort, you have to help them to care with their hearts, not just their heads.

Birds which are the same color as the foliage in which they nest are less likely to be disturbed by other birds who want to drop in and chat, and therefore last longer.

I love LA, but we don't really have beautiful natural things to look at. I just want to be in nature and go back to my roots and just see beautiful things, that's really all I want.

The only candidate pocketing big money from people who want to destroy coal is Mitch McConnell.

Giving up is not an option if we want to prevent irreparable harm to our planet.

I don't think the fossil fuel industry will listen, not until we build up a lot of pressure. I do think we can persuade some shareholders that they don't want to be involved in this enterprise.

My guess is that liberating the fossil fuel industry to frack anywhere they want will drive down the rate at which we're converting to sun and wind. And it's entirely a rate problem at this point.

I think we probably have a racial death wish. We don't understand anything about where we live, and we don't want to.

The world's going to change climatically. We just want to control the change. We want to have a high quality of life for billions of people as we pass through this era.

The future economic success of Silicon Valley will be contingent on whether we have a good quality of life. World-class workers will only want to come to a world-class living environment.

I believe citizens are beginning to realize that their birthright, a healthy ecosystem, has been stolen, and they want it back.

Climate change involves fundamental choices about how we want to live and what kind of world we want.