Quotes About Environment

There's a value in used electronic equipment, and currently, there are small, domestic recyclers that process this equipment safely. But they have a hard time competing with facilities overseas that have few, if any, environmental and safety standards.

Strong, enforceable environmental protections will not only help protect our planet for future generations, it will also level the playing field for small-and-medium-sized U.S. businesses by raising environmental standards.

Imagine that foreign development is not done to our standards and a spill occurs. Neither geology nor ocean currents will respect our national boundaries.

The whole purpose of CAFE standards is to make cars more efficient that people are actually buying.

Obviously, when you come onto a team that's playing in the Finals and the standards are so high that nothing but winning a championship is success, coming in new to that kind of environment, of course you're going to put pressure on yourself.

EPA's Affordable Clean Energy rule (ACE), would restore the states' proper role under the Clean Air Act and our system of federalism. Our plan would allow states to establish standards of performance that meet EPA emissions guidelines.

The Clean Power Plan sets the first-ever national carbon pollution standards for the power sector, the single-biggest source of carbon emissions in the United States.

It's hard to get lost in a scene, to get into a character when everyone's standing around you on the set.

That's standard for being a Green: standing up for a long-term future, which is a much more clear view of where the world is going to and where this country should be going there than either of the old parties have.

What we are investing in, from a generation standpoint, are renewables and natural gas.

From a productivity standpoint, you're supposed to reduce headcount on par with declining revenue. If you believe the environment isn't going to improve, you should take a bigger cut to get in front of the problems.

Yes, Brazil, like the whole world, stands to lose a lot in a climate-altered world. But it's also one of the major forces determining our future: It's the home of most of the Amazon rain forest.

The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.

As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.

Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.

I am a man without a furnace. My windows are insulated by 19 sheets of glass which cost less than installing a heating system.

Every man has an atmosphere which is affecting every other.

The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not his environment.

Wherever flowers cannot be reared, there man cannot live.

The climate system is being pushed hard enough that change will become obvious to the man in the street in the next decade.

The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.

Man belongs to the Earth, Earth does not belong to man