Quotes About Environment

The climate change issue is real and we are seeing its effects right here in South Carolina.

The Internet is emblematic of an era in which what happens in Southeast Asia or southern Africa - from democratic advances to deforestation to the fight against aids - can affect Americans. As has been observed about water pollution, we all live downstream now.

I'm a California girl, and I'd love to restore a sense of place to Southern California.

As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.

You could be a locavore in Florida or southern California. But I tried that. It was really limiting.

Western capitalism is a looting mechanism. It loots labor. It loots the environment, and with the transpacific and transatlantic 'partnerships,' it will loot the sovereign law of countries.

We will resolutely and persistently maintain independence while fighting for the protection of our sovereignty, but we must maintain a peaceful environment for development.

The microgravity or the very, very low amount of gravity that we have up in space forces some changes in different processes. It forces changes in us as human beings.

I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

We're gonna do a Bowling for Dollars-type thing, but it'll be Breakdancing on Cardboard for Yen for the ozone layer, so it'll be called Breaking in Space.

Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the buildings themselves.

I don't think anybody can create in a space where they don't feel comfortable.

Chernobyl happened in April of 1986. A few months earlier, in January 1986, the Challenger space shuttle exploded. It did not have the impact on the environment and the amount of lives that Chernobyl did, but it was the result of the same exact problem: a failure of a lot of people and institutions over a long period of time.

When I saw the Earth from above, personally, as a spacecraft operator, it certainly reinforced and drove home the fact that there's one place where we can live right now.

When you're in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shouldn't touch!

Every time you think of a city, you have to think green, green, green. Every time you see concrete jungle, you must find open spaces. And when you find open spaces, make it so people can get to them.

In 'Palaces for the People,' Eric Klinenberg offers a new perspective on what people and places have to do with each other, by looking at the social side of our physical spaces.

As cities have grown rapidly across the nation, many have neglected infrastructure projects and paved over green spaces that once absorbed rainwater.

A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.

The science is clear: to solve the climate crisis, we must protect our natural spaces.

And preserving our open spaces or having them there for recreational purposes is one of the things that contributes to the high level of quality of life that we offer in Pennsylvania, and that also translates into economic benefits.

I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.