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Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way.
We don't want the federal government coming in and telling us how to do our environmental remediation or how we're going to do our healthcare.
The discrimination of women and girls goes to the core of any and all analyses of the world's economic, political, and environmental problems.
...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.
So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.
Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.
I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot be postponed.
If you do not see yourselves and all things as living, moving, and having their being in God, you see nothing, whatever you may think you see.
A 1.5 litres/100km (3 mpg) increase in the auto and light truck fleet is worth 158,968.35 cubic metres (41,994,994.53 US gallons) of oil a day.
Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with no way out.
Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.
The latest computer modeling I've seen indicates that at mid-century, there might be 150 million people classified as "environmental refugees."
We should have no concern for the environment, because, after the great flood with Noah, God promised that He would never ruin the earth again.
Every American expects and deserves clean air, and then we act on that belief, then we will set an example for the rest of the world to follow.
Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.
Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be nuclear, environmental or terrorism-related.
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
Democrats in environmental agencies tend to be more sensitive to environmental harm. And Republicans tend to be more sensitive to business harm.
We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible.
Our nation's continued prosperity hinges on our ability to solve environmental problems and sustain the natural resources on which we all depend.
The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?
We try to invest in companies that are putting together environmental programs and working to improve their overall social and environmental self.
The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.
I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue - it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well.
Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.
When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark Ages of commerce.
Curing environmental ills requires not a stance outside nature, but a stance within nature, a role not as onlooker without, but as an actor within.
The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.
I agree on the need for environmental sustainability. It is no good raising gross national income while at the same time destroying natural assets.
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself.
Why is Earth Day, today, also Lenin's birthday? Coincidence? Or does it signal the true intent of the national and worldwide environmental movement?
Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country.
So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.
I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.
The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development.
Be Thou praised, my Lord, of our Sister Mother Earth, which sustains and hath us in rule, and produces divers fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.
The world has been experiencing a whole pattern of auto-destruction, whether in environmental disasters like Chernobyl or health disasters like AIDS.
You want to keep the severity of our environmental problems in mind enough to keep yourself motivated but not enough to paralyze you into depression.
An individual's harmony with his or her 'own deep self' requires not merely a journey to the interior but a harmonizing with the environmental world.
Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.
According to Time magazine, global warming is 33% worse than we thought. You know what that means? Al Gore is one-third more annoying than we thought.
America ships tons of sugar cookies to Denmark and Denmark ships tons of sugar cookies to America. Wouldn't it be more efficient just to swap recipes?
There is no way to re-enchant our lives in a disenchanted culture except by becoming renegades from that culture and planting the seeds for a new one.
The IPCC - and all the mainstream media and environmental extremists who cite it uncritically - really have become a joke in the scientific community.
In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster.
Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.
I have been a long-term environmental advocate for the agriculture industry. I have particularly tried to push carbon farming or carbon sequestration.