Quotes About Environment

I mean, if Hardee's is urban, I'm not sure I want to see rural.

I will have failed in this if in five years there are not many more people using public transport and far fewer journeys by car. It is a tall order but I want you to hold me to it.

I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now? I don't want these particular species to disappear.

You live in the city? You live in the graveyard! You want to be resurrected? Apply to the nature!

But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the elections. They want to pretend that they are doing something meaningful.

You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach.

The oil dinosaurs want to win so badly in my home state because what happens here matters everywhere. The nation often follows where California goes.

Moving to 100 percent renewable energy means we no longer need and can no longer justify wars for oil.

Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

The next war in the Middle East will be fought over water, not politics

The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.

I have become an environmentalist, because it is over the environment that the last of the Indian Wars will be fought.

Today's wars are about oil. But alternate energies exist now - solar, wind - for every important energy-using activity in our lives. The only human work that cannot be done without oil is war.

We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.

The next World War will be over water

If we don't cut carbon's money pipeline, we will pay for their gasoline with floods, droughts, fires, super storms, drowned cities, mass extinctions, wars, and collapsing civilizations.

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.

Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.

If people see how we're all interconnected and connected with Nature, we wouldn't have an environmental crisis, we wouldn't have two dozen wars all over the world.

Whatever bro, tell it to the whales

After walking on rocks in these shoes all week, I really miss good roads," said Amanda. "One thing I like a lot less here is the bugs," said Hilary. "Wait a minute," said Catherine, "We have the same bugs now, too." "Yeah," Hilary answered, "but they didn't have anything to kill them with back then.

I—I've never liked this place. Maybe because it's down in a hollow and you don't see the road.

Have you ever considered whether Perth's 'dullness' may have inspired you rather than inhibited you?

Unless you were high up in a building or happened to glimpse it at the end of one of the big avenues going east-west, all you knew of the sunset was a darkening in the air. No wonder people in New York were so unbalanced. They were totally untouched by the rhythms of nature. You were only aware of nature when something extreme happened, like a snowstorm or heatwave.