Quotes About Environment

If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's always people dying of violence or stray bullets.

Living an environmentally responsible lifestyle can seem like a Scrooge-like list of don'ts. Don't take that flight, don't buy that car, don't eat those blueberries flown in from somewhere far-flung.

I don't like being in public with headphones on. I don't know how people can do it. It seems like you're so cut off from your environment. I feel like I'd get hit by a car.

We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories.

Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere.

I'm into carpooling, because sometimes my car gets hot and needs to refresh itself.

I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.

If everybody (traded his car for a horse) they would be out of debt in a couple of years. Just think, no gas, no tires, no roads to pay for.

I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.

Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.

Did we put our kids in 0.5-mile-per-gallon (mpg) tanks and 17 feet per gallon aircraft carriers because we failed to put them in 32-mpg cars?

2020. There'll be cold fusion. We'll actually be able to power our cars with our own feces. That's right. The emissions problem will be a little intense, but just light a match.

I drive a hybrid, moving into an electric car. I only drink tap water, never consume food that's travelled.

I drive a hybrid. It's a Ford Escape. That's my only car.

The car has made our lives more difficult. If not for it, we would have everything we needed within walking distance.

What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.

My main form of exercise is my bike. I dont have a car, so I cycle everywhere.

I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.

I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.

When you're riding a bike you're more connected to the outdoors and to other people than you are when you are stuck in your car.

About 60 percent of the oil consumed daily by Americans is used for transportation, and about 45 percent is used for passenger cars and light trucks.

Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars off the road for eleven years.

It is proven that cars can affect your health.

One of the reasons I'm excited by what visionary Elon Musk has done with the Tesla is to show that you can reduce global warming and drive a powerful, fun car. A cool car helps make a cooler planet.