Recycled Quotes

• In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.

  David Suzuki

  Environmental, Waste

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• I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.

  Jesse Jackson

  Fun, Political, Speech

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• I am not a veteran environmentalist. I don't live in a house made of recycled tires, I've never handcuffed myself to a tree, and I don't grow my own organic rutabaga.

  Christy Mathewson

  House, Tree, Veteran

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• This book was written using 100% recycled words.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Written, Environmentalism

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• To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our "garbage index" - that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will not be naturally recycled for reuse - to near zero. Productive activities must be organized as closed systems. Minerals and other nonbiodegradable resources, once taken from the ground, must become a part of society's permanent capital stock and be recycled in perpetuity. Organic materials may be disposed into the natural ecosystems, but only in ways that assure that they are absorbed back into the natural production system.

  David Korten

  Zero, Taken, Ecosystems

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• One of the few things that can't be recycled is wasted time.

  Sean Covey

  Motivational, Action, Wasted Time

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.

  Pete Seeger

  Environmental, Should, Productions

  "Song: "If It Can't Be Reduced"("At 89")". 2008.

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• We're just recycled history machines, cavemen in faded blue jeans.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Philosophy, Blue, Jeans

  Song: Don't Chu-Know, Album: Barometer Soup, 1995

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• It's challenging and interesting for me to work on projects that are unique and unconventional. I'm so bored with seeing the same recycled material.

  Nina Dobrev

  Unique, Interesting, Bored

  "The Final Girls" Star Nina Dobrev Talks the Surprising Horror Film, "Vampire Diaries", and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 9, 2015.

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• If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Buying, Recycling, Environment

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.ecomall.com.

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• I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

  Ellen Goodman

  Social Values, Recycling, Boxes

  "Saigon Swap". www.nytimes.com. June 10, 1990.

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• Make Earth Day Every Day.”  While we might not always live up to this ideal, I try to keep this quote from Denis Hayes, founder of the Earth Day Network and president of Seattle’s Bullitt Foundation, in mind when I need a little extra motivation to be a better environmentalist: “Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.

  Denis Hayes

  Running, Motivation, Beer

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• I have discovered that in every language and every country I have visited, there are no new stories. They're all recycled. The same stressful thoughts arise in each mind one way or another, sooner or later.

  Byron Katie

  Country, Stress, Mind

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• You have two kinds of shows on Broadway - revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for 'The Lion King' a year in advance, and essentially a family comes as if to a picnic, and they pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is - a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar. We live in a recycled culture.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Kings, Children, Years

  "We will shock you: why musicals need to take bigger risks on a smaller scale" by Boff Whalley, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2010.

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• Very often we see coaches who have not been successful being recycled, instead of looking to a new face or a new name who has demonstrated the ability to handle the job.

  Lynn Swann

  Sports, Jobs, Successful

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• Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Retirement, Feet, People

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• I'm in the middle of my own 'Project Runway' challenge given to me by my daughter's preschool. All the parents have to make an outfit for their kids, for school pictures, made entirely out of recycled objects. I can not believe I have homework.

  Busy Philipps

  Mother, Daughter, Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Working with Emeco has allowed me to use a recycled material and transform it into something that never needs to be discarded - a tireless and unbreakable chair to use and enjoy for a lifetime. It is a chair you never own, you just use it for a while until it is the next persons turn. A great chair never should have to be recycled. This is good consideration of nature and man kind.

  Philippe Starck

  Men, Should Have, Needs

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• There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part, it is guilt about consumption. Perhaps it also feels unnatural. Mother Nature doesn't throw stuff away. Dead trees, birds, beetles and elephants are pretty quickly recycled by the system.

  William Booth

  Mother, Elephants, Tree

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• Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.

  Denis Hayes

  Running, Fun, Beer

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• All it takes is to pick up that one piece of trash you pass everyday on your way to work. Or to turn the water faucet off when you're brushing your teeth from afar. Or to compost. Or to buy 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper. Or to utilize vintage stores and secondhand markets. Or to fully devote yourself to only buying vegetables from local sources. It is remarkably easy to incorporate sustainable choices into our everyday, busy lives.

  Shailene Woodley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and again - and have repeatedly led to disaster. Most of these ideas are not new. They are just being recycled with re-treaded rhetoric.

  Thomas Sowell

  Ideas, People, Liberty

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• Digital wisdom is made of recycled electrons that are meaningful until you pull the plug.

  Don Rittner

  Meaningful, Digital, Internet

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• Widely spaced earth-sheltered towns offer sweeping views over the plains. High-speed trains link the communities. Food is grown in the region. Bikeways are everywhere. Nonpolluting hydrogen powers all vehicles. Sunlight and wind generate the hydrogen. Note the earth-covered bridges, the continuous window bands, the wind machines across the farmlands. In this new America, everything is reused, recycled, conserved.

  Malcolm Wells

  Views, Wind, Bridges

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• It makes a big difference to recycle. It makes a big difference to use recycled products. It makes a big difference to reuse things, to not use the paper cup - and each time you do, thats a victory.

  Emily Deschanel

  Differences, Victory, Cups

  "Organic Living with Emily Deschanel". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.health.com. September 5, 2001.

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