Greenhouses Quotes

• Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.

  Jack Herer

  Survival, Hemp, Needs

  88 Copy quote

• Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

  William Cowper

  Garden, Gardening, Gardening And God

  William Cowper (1810). “The Task: A Poem. In Six Books”, p.89

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.

  Ralph Merkle

  Agriculture, Acres, Limits

  "Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future". Interview with John Gehl, ubiquity.acm.org. July 2000.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• We have built a greenhouse, a human greenhouse, where once there bloomed a sweet and wild garden.

  Bill McKibben

  Sweet, Garden, Biodiversity

  13 Copy quote

• I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Flower, Long

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

  103 Copy quote

  Show source

• My idea of a good novel was one you made enough money out of to buy a greenhouse.

  Terry Pratchett

  Ideas, Enough, Made

  Source: bobneilson.org

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

  Edward Abbey

  Flower, Sunshine, Grandchildren

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas emissions.

  James Hansen

  Giving, Growth, Made

  15 Copy quote

• Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.

  Burton Richter

  Issues, Energy, Directors

  12 Copy quote

• You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.

  Jack Herer

  Burning, Fuel, Fossils

  10 Copy quote

• It's there. The white rose among the dried flowers in the vase. Shriveled and fragile, but holding on to that unnatural perfection cultivated in Snows greenhouse. I grab the vase, stumble down to the kitchen, and throw its contents into the embers. As the flowers flare up, a burst of blue flame envelops the rose and devours it. Fire beats roses again.

  Suzanne Collins

  Flower, Fire, Blue

  13 Copy quote

• China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.

  James Lovelock

  America, Revolution, Regimes

  10 Copy quote

• Because nitrous oxide [released by nitrate-fertilised soil] is 296 times stronger than CO₂ at global warming and methane [cow farts] is about 26 times as potent as CO₂, the combined greenhouse effect of our livestock worldwide is greater than the sum total of all the cars, trains, busses, trucks, ships, airplanes and jets.

  Thom Hartmann

  Airplane, Car, Environmental

  "Threshold: The Progressive Plan to Pull America Back from the Brink". Book by Thom Hartmann, p.22, July 23, 2009.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• The basic scientific conclusions on climate change are very robust and for good reason. The greenhouse effect is simple science: greenhouse gases trap heat, and humans are emitting ever more greenhouse gases.

  Nicholas Stern

  Simple, Climate, Heat

  Nicholas Stern (2009). “The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity”, p.33, PublicAffairs

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.

  Stephen King

  Weed, Marijuana, Dope

  Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are many who still do not believe that global warming is a problem at all. And it's no wonder: because they are the targets of a massive and well-organized campaign of disinformation lavishly funded by polluters who are determined to prevent any action to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming out of a fear that their profits might be affected if they had to stop dumping so much pollution into the atmosphere.

  Al Gore

  Determination, Believe, Atmosphere

  Al Gore (2017). “The Assault on Reason: Our Information Ecosystem, from the Age of Print to the Era of Trump”, p.296, Bloomsbury Publishing

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.

  Nicholas Stern

  Vegetarian Diet, Water, Meat

  "Vegetarian diet is better for the planet, says Lord Stern" by David Batty, David Adam, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2009.

  69 Copy quote

  Show source

• Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent.

  Donella Meadows

  Cutting, Germany, Netherlands

  84 Copy quote

• If we are to meet the growing electricity demand in the United States without significantly increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, we must maintain a diverse supply of electricity, and nuclear power must be part of that mix.

  Judy Biggert

  United States, Nuclear, Growing

  9 Copy quote

• You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.

  Elon Musk

  Mars, Greenhouse Gases, Warm

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial revolution. And the National Academy of Sciences indicates that the increase is due in large part to human activity.

  George W. Bush

  Revolution, Climate Change, Increase

  George Walker Bush, John W. Dietrich (2005). “The George W. Bush Foreign Policy Reader: Presidential Speeches and Commentary”, p.162, M.E. Sharpe

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on it - OAP, retirement - and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again.

  Julie Walters

  Retirement, Home, Opportunity

  7 Copy quote

• Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back.

  Stewart Udall

  Wind Blowing, People, Energy

  7 Copy quote

• On Earth Day I made a commitment to reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by the year 2000. And I asked for a blueprint on how to achieve this goal. In concert with all other nations, we simply must halt global warming. It is a threat to our health, to our ecology, and to our economy. I know that the precise magnitude and patterns of climate change cannot be fully predicted. But global warming clearly is a growing, long-term threat with profound consequences. And make no mistake about it, it will take decades to reverse.

  William J. Clinton

  Mistake, Commitment, Years

  8 Copy quote

• Look, any cut in greenhouse gases is going to be expensive for American consumers, who are in no mood to bear additional costs.

  Robert Reich

  Cutting, Energy, Looks

  "Is U.S. doing enough for climate? Listen to this story". Interview with Steve Chiotakis, www.marketplace.org. October 16, 2009.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source