Environmental Disaster Quotes

#1. There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet.

Gary L. Francione

#2. A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you're going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing either, you can worry yourself to death.

P. J. O'Rourke

#3. Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster.

Stewart Brand

#4. What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change.

David Miliband

#5. Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

James Fallows

#6. This is probably the biggest environmental disaster we have ever faced in this country. It is certainly the biggest oil spill and we are responding with the biggest environmental response.

Carol Browner

#7. My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?

Bruce Sterling

#8. put Mentos in his Spanish teacher's Diet Coke.

Rick Riordan

#9. Man cannot spend all his time doing evil, and even in the company of pirates there must be some sweet moments on their sinister ship when you feel as if you were aboard a pleasure yacht.

Honore De Balzac

#10. Unlike Woody Allen, I would be happy to be part of any (poetry) club that would have me.

Denise Duhamel

#11. The more you take away the less there is to hide behind and that's when the true talent comes out.

Danny Bowien

#12. The threat of environmental crisis is the 'international disaster key' to unlock the New World Order.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#13. I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest.

Tony Hayward

#14. Moment," said d'Artagnan. "I will not abandon Buckingham thus. He gave us

Alexandre Dumas

#15. Forgive yourself for being an imperfect human being. The goddess doesn't expect perfection, although she does expect you to try and do better. Allow yourself to be happy. Live the life you want, and follow the path of your heart.

Deborah Blake

#16. 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.

James Surowiecki

#17. Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, 'It was a perfect script for she and I,' inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, 'Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?'

Dick Cavett

#18. You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash.

Bill Maher