Quotes About Impact

We got everyone's attention, but we didn't solve any environmental problems.

It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe...

COâ'' emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

If you drill, there's going to be a spill. It's axiomatic.

Global warming threatens the survival of our species.

Civilization's shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems.

The doubling of oil prices ... is creating a more difficult environment in which to act.

If environmental protection efforts continue to lag behind economic growth, pollution will become even more rampant.

We forced Richard Nixon and the Congress who established, and thanks to your leadership, we supported you and we got the Environmental Protection Act and Agency.

The "hole in the moral ozone" is really what's behind the hole in the ozone.

Meat is a tremendous environmental challenge. It contributes enormous amounts of greenhouse gas, especially beef eating.

Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever.

I think the environmental movement is now so large and diverse that it's hard to talk of it as a single entity.

The only way you can estimate environmental influences is by measuring them.

Between the late 1950s and the late 1980s, more than 750 million tons of chemical wastes were discarded.

The world doesn't need more people to save the world, what it really needs is more people to kick asses of those who pollute.

I travel all over the country speaking to young people, and I am always amazed at how engaged in environmental conservation they are.

The generation that destroys the environment is not the generation that pays the price. That is the problem.

Climate change is the environmental challenge of this generation, and it is imperative that we act before it's too late.

People of excellence will always be brought before people of influence.

It's not what the vision is, it's what the vision does.

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.