Quotes About Environment

Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.

The oceans have been a part of my life for as long as I remember. As a child, I spent hours playing in the surf off Cape Cod. In college, I fished along the rocky coast of Nova Scotia with my school's fishing team.

In the on-demand environment, you need love, not like. There's no lead in. You're not going to surf channels and hit it. People have to really want that show.

The surface of Mars is bathed in ultraviolet light, bathed in radiation. Mars's magnetic field is essentially gone, so the surface of Mars is essentially sterilized.

There are definitely parts of Asia, Central America that when you look at them from space, you're always looking through a haze of pollution. As far as the atmosphere is concerned, and being able to see the surface, you know, I would say definitely those areas that I mentioned look kind of sick.

Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land.

The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia.

For several days in July of 2012, Greenland surface ice cover melted more than at any time in 30 years of satellite observation. During that month, an estimated 97% of the ice sheet thawed.

There was a summer during which the whole South Shore of Oahu, you could see the bleached coral almost across all of the surfing spots. And so it's gone from an issue that only environmentalists cared about to an issue that almost everybody in the state of Hawaii cares about, because it's really affecting our quality of life.

When I started to do work outside of surfing, commercials where I needed to lead, I came out of my shell more, and I realised I wanted to create an environment that's fun because, a lot of time on shoots, people are so stressed and running behind the clock in an intense way.

You need a place to work that works for you, and you need people to understand that when you are writing, you are doing a rarefied type of brain surgery and therefore should not be subject to a million random interruptions.

We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.

Who needs Russian gas if we could get all the heat we need from our own surplus? Who needs Middle Eastern oil, when we can integrate limitless renewable sources in our smart grids?

The Himalayan glaciers, China's trade surplus, Olympic ice hockey - the world is full of pressing subjects that people never consult me about.

If we emit massive quantities of untested chemicals into the environment, some of them are bound to end up in places that surprise us, doing things that endanger us.

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

I would not be at all surprised to find out... that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.

I'm surprised how hot it gets in the Moab Desert. I knew it got hot, but I didn't think it got, like, Mercury-hot.

My biggest surprises in my everyday job have to do with the challenges of trying to be slightly more responsible as a brand.

Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races.

Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising.

It's hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy.

What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.

I just try to leave my baggage at the door. I don't want to carry my stuff into a working environment with me, and I expect that from other people. If they can't do it, though, I'm surprisingly understanding.