Environment Quotes - Page 36

• But waiting for 'eventually' to prove the alarmists wrong is not the wisest course of action. Unfullfillable ambitions to stifle growth will devastate a world trying to deal with the complexities of economics, stability, and the environment. Quality of life depends on access to energy. Noble intentions about 'C02-free' sources of energy are not sufficient, if their agenda of eliminating coal as a source, and turning their back on nuclear, are allowed to be part of our near-term policies.

  John H. Sununu

  Ambition, Waiting, Growth

  4 Copy quote

• I think the Sierra Club is the environmental group that has the best chance of really accomplishing things. It's well known, and it actually gets down to doing the dirty work of protecting the environment.

  Tom Scholz

  Dirty, Thinking, Environmental

  6 Copy quote

• Well, growing up in LA, things are kind of thrust in front of you. You're almost forced to grow up pretty fast, with experiences and stuff. Going to that school there were a lot of rich girls, a lot of partying, a lot of wild things. You're put in this environment where you're forced to wear a uniform. It was all girls, so you rebel naturally, I think. I don't know, I just kind of got inspiration from every day living and going to school.

  Sarah Hudson

  Girl, Growing Up, Party

  4 Copy quote

• People in London are so much more exposed to danger, or bad things. It took me quite a long time to grow up in that environment.

  Eliot Paulina Sumner

  Growing Up, Long, People

  "The Self-Aware Solo Artist". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The films that I loved growing up were the science fiction films from the late seventies and early eighties [films], which were more about the people and how they are affected by the environments that they are in. Whether they are sort of futuristic or alien of whatever they are; that was the science fiction that I loved. So that is what we tried to make, the sort of film that felt like those old films.

  Duncan Jones

  Growing Up, People, Fiction

  9 Copy quote

• In environments where corporations become too interventionist and capture regulation themselves, the government must be able to battle back so that the people have a chance.

  Ian Bremmer

  Government, People, Battle

  Interview with Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. February 25, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment.

  Ian Bremmer

  Years, Care, Hard

  Interview with Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. February 25, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think that the environment is very a complicated question. I am very sympathetic to people who support the environment who live in the United States. I am very sympathetic to people who don't support the environment who live in a very poor country.

  Ian Bremmer

  Country, Thinking, People

  Interview with Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. February 25, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I feel vulnerable on mountains. It's an uncontrolled, raw environment. It's very - it's truly humbling.

  Jeremy Jones

  Mountain, Vulnerable, Humbling

  "Jeremy Jones and Protect Our Winters". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• Usually you just use these words: "I give you my, I make this commitment to you, I honor this idea between us." For me, commitment boils down to honor. Because you make a commitment to protect our environment, you make a commitment to species preservation, you make a commitment to stop things like human trafficking. You make a commitment to stop smoking, to eat better. Typically, something that is positive. A positive notion of honor.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Commitment, Ideas, Giving

  5 Copy quote

• I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Men, Numbers, Greater

  Source: blankonblank.org

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• This president and this is what the focus ought to be, it's not the differences between us, it's Barack Obama does not believe America's leadership in the world is a force for good. He does not believe that our strength is a place where security can take place. He leads from behind. He creates an environment that now we're creating the most unstable situation we've had since the World War II era.

  Jeb Bush

  War, Believe, Differences

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We know that there are several predisposing factors to gun violence: poverty, lack of education, lack of good parenting, lack of jobs, living in an environment where violence is seen every day, all the time. And children being born to children are likely to have all of these predisposing factors.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Jobs, Children, Gun

  Source: www.motherjones.com

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• Whatever the political injustices are that created an environment that brought this about, it was not Americans who flew those planes into those buildings. And we should remember that. The crimes against humanity were perpetrated by people who were Arab Muslims.

  Robert Fisk

  People, Political, Humanity

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. November 30, 2001.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• My father had a phase of having jukeboxes all over the house. He was a music lover but he was also into musical machinery. Not instruments, he was never interested in playing particularly but there would be these odd objects, like valve amplifiers being dismantled on the kitchen table. My mum wasn't massively keen on that, but it was part of the environment.

  Squarepusher

  Father, House, Kitchen

  Source: thequietus.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• It may sound strange, but when you're a kid and you're in that environment, for some reason for a long time you think, when the doors are closed in other houses, this is what it's like everywhere. And then at some point you begin to realize that isn't true, and books were really the educational system that showed me that there were many better and different ways to live a life.

  Dean Koontz

  Educational, Book, Kids

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are two reforms that we need to restore our democracy. The first is campaign finance. We need to get the corporate money out of the election process. And second, we need to resolve the dysfunction in the environment. Looters are running agencies that are supposed to be protecting us from pollution.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Running, Agency, Election Process

  Interview with David Kupfer for The Progressive Magazine, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. November 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's also the environment that determines a considerable part of the growth and development of children.

  Edward Zigler

  Children, Growth, Development

  "The Progressive". Interview with Ruth Conniff, June 1, 2002.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• So to the best we can, what we do is focus on creating value for others, and how do we do that? We do it by trying to produce products and services that our customers will value more than their alternatives, and not just their alternatives today, but what the alternatives will be in the future. We try to more efficiently use resources than our competitors, and constantly improve in that, and we try to do the best job we can in creating a safe environment, and environmental excellence, and constantly improve at that.

  Charles Koch

  Jobs, Safe Environment, Best Job

  "Full interview: Charles Koch". "Corner Office" with Kai Ryssdal, www.marketplace.org. October 21, 2015.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Growing up in rural Louisiana, the ecosystem around our home wove harmoniously into our family and into our daily life. Every life lesson that trickled its way into my being came from a mutually respectful relationship between the environment and my family.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Growing Up, Life Lesson, Home

  "Interview with United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Ian Somerhalder". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 01, 2014.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's something about the human brain, that it actually has a predilection towards negativity, which served us really well when we lived in an environment that was very threatening.

  Moby

  Negativity, Brain, Threatening

  "Moby | Inside the brain of a genius. Meditator. Vegan. Outlaw". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I was growing up, all I wanted to do was fit in, but if you're perpetually an outsider, it gives you a perspective that might have a little more objectivity than people who really feel connected to their social environment in which they grow up.

  Moby

  Growing Up, Objectivity, Perspective

  4 Copy quote

• A lot of people think PMI is the genome project 2.0. No. This is about all the influences on disease - genetics is in there, but the environment is in there as well, health choices, behaviors, all the factors that are important, otherwise we're not doing what we promised we would do - which is in a holistic way look at how people stay healthy or how do they fall ill.

  Francis Collins

  Fall, Thinking, People

  Source: www.politico.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The essence of Ananda is both personal and sociological. Personally for people who seek truth or identities of God, it helps to be with other people who share those ideals. Environment is stronger than willpower, and when you are with people who have high ideals, it helps you to grow in your ideals.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Essence, People, Stronger

  Source: www.lotusguide.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's been written about as "the overview effect." All I can give you is my perspective, but most all of the people who have been in space start to see the world without boundaries. You start to think about how we can keep doing these things we're doing that are destructive of the environment and destructive of the planet. It causes you to start to think things in a quite different way than we had before.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Thinking, Space, Perspective

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source