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It would be a mistake to believe that environmental protection and economic growth are mutually exclusive.
It is not really necessary to destroy nature in order to gain God's favor or even his undivided attention.
White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.
That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.
My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.
We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.
I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.
I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.
The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.
May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.
Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.
I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags.
Militarism is in direct competition with people's needs for food, health care, and environmental protection.
I've learned so much about what you can do to help animals, the environmental issues around meat production.
Much guilt arises in the life of the believer from practicing the chameleon life of environmental adaptation.
If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.
The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.
Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close.
We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
The environmental movement does not always have to be about stopping things. It can be about fixing problems.
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.
Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.
The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.
Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs
Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.
The 20th century peatlands ditching in Finland was the worst human environmental destruction action in Europe.
In America, you complain about job losses because of China, but here, we carry all of the environmental costs.
Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.
You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.
We humans can look deep into future and predict what will happen, but then turn around and do nothing about it.
I think the environmental movement is now so large and diverse that it's hard to talk of it as a single entity.
Whether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven.
I've been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children's charities over the years.
Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.
Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.
It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live.
Planting and growing increasing quantities of trees is the scientific solution to Earth's environmental dilemma.
Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.
How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.
Global food insecurity is increasing...the slim excess of growth in food production over population is narrowing.
Farmers...can no longer keep up with rising demand; thus the outlook is for chronic scarcities and rising prices.
It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.
It's amazing how one introductory course in environmental science can turn a 20-year-old into an Biofuels expert.
Trans issues are also environmental issues. They're also healthcare issues. They're also national security issues.
For every $1 advertisers spend advertising something healthful like apples, they spend $500 advertising junk food.
Even the wealth of the U.S. cannot protect against the levels of environmental destruction that we are unleashing.
Your skin is a barrier that protects you from environmental aggressors like pollution, bacteria and moisture loss.
Many environmental advocates argue that agricultural pollution will be reduced only through stronger federal laws.