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The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong.
Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.
A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.
I think every discovery of the world plunges us into jubilation, a radical amazement that tears apart the veil of triviality.
Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change.
...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.
If every country's climate policy was driven purely by environmental science, we may have no need for international agreements.
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care
Sharks are just evil bastards. I'm quite happy if all the sharks just went, because they eat fish and us. And we need the fish.
It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity; how many planets will a country like India require?
Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.
The environmental movement doesn't have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventually, there will be open war.
My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late ’60s and ’70s and I guess I’ve inherited that awareness from her.
A lot of my nonfiction is very strong environmental stories - I was the first guy to write about the dolphin killings in Japan.
Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
Let's recreate the equivalent of the Met Ball in Europe and, rather than for the museum, give the money to environmental causes.
The focus of environmental ethics should indeed be on the virtues and how these inform our relationship to natural environments.
There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.
Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.
Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.
My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late '60s and '70s, and I guess I've inherited that awareness from her.
China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.
It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe...
Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.
Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Immense wealth translates automatically into immense environmental impacts, regardless of the intentions of those who possess it.
It should be noted that the EPA's banning of methanol is categorically absurd from the point of view of environmental protection.
At least if we don't close down the Environmental Protection Agency, we at least put a snaffle bit on them and ride the pony down.
I'm sure that many people who are involved in an environmental effort ... they will be pretty much encouraged by this recognition.
Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever.
If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.
Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.
The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.
Now our biggest environmental problems come from our own actions, our own choices, rather than pollution produced by big business.
Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will.
If we had kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.
Parking's expensive, so I walk or ride my bike, which is good because my girlfriend's getting her PhD as an environmental engineer.
Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.
Our view has been that unless stringent environmental tests can be passed by would-be frackers, then no fracking should take place.
Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.
The Impact Channel and OurPlanet were created to increase awareness of environmental and social causes within the MySpace community.
The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
I travel all over the country speaking to young people, and I am always amazed at how engaged in environmental conservation they are.
Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet - it is one of our greatest challenges of any kind.
Like many environmental documentaries, 'Planet of Humans' endorses debunked Malthusian ideas that the world is running out of energy.
In Congress, I have defended solar energy to safeguard the economic and environmental future of Nevada, and I will continue to do so.