Quotes About Environment

This is part of what's driving me, is this feeling like there's so much yet to be discovered in the oceans, and we're destroying it before we even know what's in it.

We need to do a better job of keeping oceans healthy.

If we keep on destroying fish, there won't be any left. If the oceans die, we all die. It's as simple as that.

The environmentalists say capitalism is killing our oceans, air, land, and forests. Capitalists argue that they provide food, fuel, and building materials for a growing world.

Most people can't see the connection between their own lives and the oceans.

I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.

The facts are clear. Our oceans are a mess.

We could truly make our oceans clean again.

I was a very, I think, lonely kid, very introspective. I felt very much at odds with my environment and my culture... Probably a genetic flaw. I can't really explain it.

As corny as it sounds, and not to sound like a hippie, I think there are these spirit forces in nature, and we have to be careful not to offend them.

'Khoobsurat' was an eye-opener in many ways. Cinema is a colossal money-churning business in India, and working in that environment offered me quite an incredible learning experience.

If nature offers no home, then we must make a home one way or another. The only question is how.

The Volkswagen Group offers the world's largest low-CO2 fleet.

President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office.

Some of the school districts in my congressional district are looking at resource officers and how they secure that environment.

I think, in general, we've created an environment where we've done away with the sort of day-to-day training that's necessary, including crisis intervention, behavioral health training - the kinds of things that we know that both protect officers and the community - and moved away to a highly military, advanced SWAT team mentality.

People in the BBC are always dying to get out of their open-plan offices.

For years, agency officials said that atrazine in drinking water posed almost no risk to humans or the environment.

Ironically enough, why I got into politics is because I came to the conclusion that if you wanted to save the world, which in my mind was through the environment, those elected officials seemed to be the ones who made a lot of the important decisions, if not the most important decisions.

We tour the world and my carbon footprint is massive. I feel like it's my responsibility to do something - not just to offset it but to help make a difference.

We fail to boost our offshore production at our own expense.

Offshore drilling is not the answer, it is not going to get us anything.

Coastal restoration and a robust offshore energy industry have to co-exist because Louisiana's future depends on it.

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.