Denis Hayes Quotes

#1. These are not exhortations from overwrought extremists, but carefully phrased warnings from some of the world's finest scientists,

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#2. I love the period of rotation. Thirty hours. You can get in a full day's work, stay up getting drunk at the saloon, and still get a full night's sleep. I don't know why we didn't think of this back home.

James S.A. Corey

#3. In school we learn to think alike, but true education is to learn how to think differently.

Debasish Mridha

#4. We presently have the technology ... fuel cells, solar cells, hydrogen ... the opportunities are amazing for clean energy.

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#5. I suppose I'd characterize myself as having a faith-based optimism. My faith is parental and Darwinian.

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#6. A man like Dmitry was never irate. His coldness was only reflected in the manner in which he destroyed.

Latrivia S. Nelson

#7. It is already too late to avoid mass starvation

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#8. An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year - which is far more than the value of the land's crop of corn or wheat.

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#9. By the year 2000, such renewable energy sources could provide 40 percent of the global energy budget; by 2025, humanity could obtain 75 percent of its energy from solar resources.

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#10. The sunshine that strikes American roads each year contains more energy than all the fossil fuels used by the entire world.

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#11. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.

Henry Miller

#12. There really wasn't an environmental movement 30 years ago. The Sierra Club national office in 1969 consisted of one full-time volunteer.

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#13. There was almost a universal acceptance of unhealthy conditions. Sulfur dioxide in smokestack emissions were the price, or smell, of prosperity,

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#14. I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God.

St Patrick

#15. Thank you, Tempest, for loving me when understanding was too hard. Thank you for understanding when loving me is impossible.

Tracy Deebs

#16. I miss Lisa 'Left Eye' every day. Watched her VH1 special many times. A tragedy. But I didn't see the movie based on her.

Danielle Schneider

#17. Gus, it always gets better.

Kim Holden

#18. BB cream is my lifesaver! It's so light on my skin, plus it protects and gives me coverage at the same time. My favorites are from Maybelline and Smashbox.

Bethany Mota

#19. Whether you are buying a car or casting a ballot, choosing a job or planning a family, follow your moral compass. Don't let others define you. Don't let advertisers mold you; don't let zealots ensnare you; don't let conventional wisdom trap you ... you are part of a much larger whole.

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#20. Zeroes are important. A million seconds ago was last week. A billion seconds ago, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency. A trillion seconds ago was 30,000 BC, and early humans were using stone tools.

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#21. I like to do things for my wife on Valentine's Day. I open the door for her when she puts laundry in the washing machine.

Milton Berle

#22. As a student of conservation biology, I believe that characteristics with survival value will ultimately prevail. There is no survival value in pessimism. If you think failure is inevitable, that view will probably become self-fulfilling.

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#23. America has the technology and resources to meet all its energy needs while safeguarding the earth's climate. The urgent question now is, 'Do we have the will?' At least one city does, and I'm proud to live in it.

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#24. There are a few obvious consequences and perhaps one subtle possibility. One obvious thing is that, to stimulate the economy, President Obama has committed to creating millions of green jobs that will leave a legacy - much as Roosevelt's public works did during the new deal.

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#25. When we held the first Earth Day, everyone said it was a success because of the huge turnout. It was probably the largest planned event across the country.

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#26. We shouldn't fuel the future with the polluting methods of the past, ... We have the technology to power our future in ways that don't threaten our health or poison our planet. Let's choose to use it.

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#27. Build high-speed, electrified trains over the most-traveled corridors. It'sreally hard to power carbon-free airplanes, but electrified trains are much easier. We'll be a half century behind the Japanese, but better late than never.

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#28. How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words!

Vladimir Nabokov

#29. We've made some heroic efforts, but the Earth as a whole is in worse shape today than 30 years ago, ... There's been 30 more years of greenhouses gases, species extinctions and population growth.

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#30. Music can touch that deepest portion of the soul where nothing else can reach. It can fill our hearts with indescribable ecstasy.

Debasish Mridha

#31. When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.

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#32. I would love to see a fundamental re-thinking of whether we truly want to be the world's largest debtor nation, feeding an insatiable desire for mall-crawling with cheaply made crap from all over the world.

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#33. If the Fed ceases hiking, against the backdrop of still rising commodity prices, then the Australian dollar will have few reasons for resisting any topside advances.

Craig Ferguson

#34. After joining as a youth trainee at 16 from school, in my first two or three years the club was on a financial downward spiral and there was none of the new sparkling kit and the sparkling conditions that the kids get now.

Colin Cooper

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

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#36. We got everyone's attention, but we didn't solve any environmental problems.

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#37. That said, I'm embarrassed and furious that so many coal-state Democrats in the U.S. Senate are paralyzing international progress to protect the short term interests of a dying industry that ravages the environment from mine to slag heap.

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#38. I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer.

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#39. Earth Day gathered up those strands, and dozens more, and knitted them together in the public consciousness as "environmental" issues. The nation was pretty startled when 20 million people hit the streets. Congress, which had adjourned for the day to go back to its districts, was blown away.

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#40. I have a head for heights it's true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many.

Jeanette Winterson

#41. Under communism, prices were not allowed to reflect economic reality. Under capitalism, prices don't reflect ecological reality. In the long run, the capitalist flaw
if uncorrected
may prove to be the more catastrophic.

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#42. the qualities ascribed to the cowboy are identical to those of the English knight.18

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#43. Asbestos, EMFs, and CFCs have given us a degree of humility. When yesterday's "triumph of modern chemistry" turns out instead to be today's deadly threat to the global environment, it is legitimate to ask what else we don't know.

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