Algae Quotes

For example, in my own State of Arizona, an Israeli scientist is working with an Arizona company on a demonstration project involving a very fast-growing algae which can be used to power a biomass energy plan.

John Shadegg

Energy, Example, Growing

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We’re making new investments in the development of gasoline and diesel and jet fuel that’s actually made from a plant-like substance-algae... We could replace up to 17 percent of the oil we import for transportation with this fuel that we can grow right here in the United States.

Barack Obama

Oil, America, Energy

Barack Obama's speech on Energy at University of Miami in Miami, Florida, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 23, 2012.

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No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.

Diane Ackerman

Blue, Green, Matter

Diane Ackerman (2004). “An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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Algae is the perfect food plant. It doubles cell mass every twelve hours, depending on the strain.

Homaro Cantu

Cells, Perfect, Twelve

"A Willy Wonka Who Wants to Feed the World". Interview with Brandon Keim, www.wired.com. December 30, 2008.

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...the life of the planet began the long, slow process of modulating and regulating the physical conditions of the planet. The oxygen in today's atmosphere is almost entirely the result of photosynthetic living, which had its start with the appearance of blue-green algae among the microorganisms.

Lewis Thomas

Life, Science, Blue

Lewis Thomas (1982). “The Nineteenth Cosmos Club Award, Lewis Thomas, M.D.”

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I rose from marsh mud
algae, equisetum, willows,
sweet green, noisy
birds and frogs.

Lorine Niedecker

Sweet, Rose, Bird

Lorine Niedecker, Jenny Lynn Penberthy (2002). “Collected Works”, p.415, Univ of California Press

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Take the entire 4.5-billion-year history of the earth and scale it down to a single year, with January 1 being the origin of the earth and midnight on December 31 being the present. Until June, the only organisms were single-celled microbes, such as algae, bacteria, and amoebae. The first animal with a head did not appear until October. The first human appears on December 31. We, like all the animals and plants that have ever lived, are recent crashers at the party of life on earth.

Neil Shubin

Party, Animal, June

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And in the process, we have come up with fuels - algae-based fuels, isobutanol-based fuels and other fuels - that we think will power the planes in the future so that, you know, by 2020 I hope that our planes will be powered on fuels that are clean fuels and are not polluting the environment so that we'll have a green airline and an airline that actually has fuels that will be hopefully cheaper than the dirty fuels of the past. So [we're] doing good and also turning a profit at the same time.

Richard Branson

Dirty, Past, Thinking

"Richard Branson: Time To Rethink 'Business As Usual'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 1, 2011.

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Dead fields under a November sky, scattered rose petals brown and turning up at the edges, empty pools scummed with algae, rot, decomposition, dust.

Stephen King

Dust, Sky, Rose

Stephen King (2014). “Pet Sematary”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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Large, centralized organizations foster alienation like stagnant ponds breed algae.

Ricardo Semler

Organization, Ponds, Alienation

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But we have not used our waters well. Our major rivers are defiled by noxious debris. Pollutants from cities and industries kill the fish in our streams. Many waterways are covered with oil slicks and contain growths of algae that destroy productive life and make the water unfit for recreation. "Polluted Water-No Swimming" has become a familiar sign on too many beaches and rivers. A lake that has served many generations of men now can be destroyed by man in less than one generation.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Beach, Swimming, Men

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[The oyster] accepts algae and detritus in one end - and through this beautiful, glamorous set of stomach organs, out the other end comes cleaner water.

Kate Orff

Beautiful, Motivation, Ocean

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Coral reefs are under assault. They are rapidly being degraded by human activities. They are over-fished, bombed and poisoned. They are smothered by sediment, and choked by algae growing on nutrient-rich sewage and fertilizer run-off. They are damaged by irresponsible tourism and are being severely stressed by the warming of the world's oceans. Each of these pressures is bad enough in itself, but together, the cocktail is proving lethal.

Klaus Topfer

Running, Ocean, Animal

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In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their vessels have capsized. They decay on their long journey down. Nothing will hit the black sand at the bottom of the world but algae-covered bones.

China Mieville

Crush, Fall, Dark

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What a difference that extra 120 ppm has made for plants, and for animals and humans that depend on them. The more carbon dioxide there is in the atmosphere, the more it is absorbed by plants of every description - - and the faster and better they grow, even under adverse conditions like limited water, extremely hot air temperatures, or infestations of insects, weeds and other pests. As trees, grasses, algae and crops grow more rapidly and become healthier and more robust, animals and humans enjoy better nutrition on a planet that is greener and greener.

Paul Driessen

Weed, Animal, Air

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Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the fish are smaller than the pencils we use to count them.

Enric Sala

Ocean, Islands, Use

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The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting a single living entity capable of maintaining the Earth's atmosphere to suit its overall needs and endowed with faculties and powers far beyond those of its constituent parts.

James Lovelock

Whales, Atmosphere, Viruses

James Lovelock, J. E. Lovelock (2000). “Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth”, p.9, Oxford Paperbacks

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There are places where life could exist. And we've already discovered that there's been life on certain planets that we've explored. That may just be algae or whatever, but life on Earth began a certain way, too.

Forest Whitaker

Earth, May, Way

Source: www.theskanner.com

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By Interstate 70: a dog skeleton, a vacuum cleaner, TV dinners, a doll, a pie, rolls of carpet.Later, next to the South Platte River: algae, broken concrete, jet contrails, the smell of crude oil. What I hope to document, though not at the expense of surface detail, is the form that underlies this apparent chaos.

Robert Adam

Dog, Oil, Rivers

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An oil crisis looms, prices are spiking - and our president is extolling algae. After Solyndra, Keystone and promises of seaweed in their gas tanks, Americans sense a president so ideologically antipathetic to fossil fuels - which we possess in staggering abundance - that he is utterly unserious about the real world of oil in which the rest of us live.

Charles Krauthammer

Real, Oil, Promise

"Obama's oil flimflam". jewishworldreview.com. March 15, 2012.

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Sex was invented as a biological instrument by (say) the green algae. But as an instrument in the ascent of man which is basic to his cultural evolution, it was invented by man himself.

Jacob Bronowski

Sex, Men, Green

Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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I wrote a song at age five about algae on the pond by our house, then the next 'real' song was in fifth grade about an unrequited crush.

Greta Salpeter

Crush, Song, Real

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When I'm down on energy, I have these superfoods powders with supergreens, algae, spirulina, and wheat germ extract. Sometimes I have a course of vitamins. For example, in autumn I'm going to start shots of B12 and biotin. For me this is really important because I travel so much. My lifestyle is quite challenging and this is something that supplements me before winter starts, which is a difficult time for your body.

Natalia Vodianova

Autumn, Winter, Challenges

Source: www.elle.com

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There are jobs to be created on both sides of the climate argument. Whether we are investing in oil or sun, coal or wind, gas or algae, the economy will be stimulated by the investment. The economy, unlike each of us, is not swayed by ideology.

Evangeline Lilly

Jobs, Wind, Oil

"Climate Choice" by Evangeline Lilly, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2013.

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In the process of making the record, I was just so bored all the time working whatever stupid job. I felt like a stagnant pond that has algae and mildew and weird animal cells, and I felt like if I sat around not doing anything long enough, that I'd probably end up going a little bit crazy.

Josh Jones

Jobs, Crazy, Stupid

"Evangelicals". Interview with Stuart Berman, pitchfork.com. August 28, 2006.

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