Environmental Quality Quotes

#1. My definition of a green-collar job is this: a family-supporting, career-track job that directly contributes to preserving or enhancing environmental quality.

Van Jones

#2. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - what a joke. In my district, we caught them lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale. They are playing with the health and safety of our communities, and we are going to tell them that is not acceptable.

Wendy Davis

#3. Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.

Barry Commoner

#4. I am not here as a public official, but as a citizen of a troubled world who finds hope in a growing consensus that the generally accepted goals of society are peace, freedom, human rights, environmental quality, the alleviation of suffering, and the rule of law.

Jimmy Carter

#5. I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

Jimmy Carter

#6. By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

Barry Commoner

#7. I want to make it clear,if there is ever a conflict (between environmental quality and economic growth), I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.

Jimmy Carter

#8. The issue of environmental quality is one which transcends traditional political boundaries. It is a cause which can attract, and very sincerely, liberals, conservatives, radicals, reactionaries, freaks, and middle-class straights.

Russell Kirk

#9. The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

Barry Commoner

#10. Darnley, who, like Banquo's ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was alive.

Antonia Fraser

#11. One of the challenges of educating especially poor people of any color on conservation and environmental issues is that poor people have a list of priorities that are more immediate quality of life issues.

Jerome Ringo

#12. How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social
I mean a purse?

Thomas Carlyle

#13. The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

Richard Rogers

#14. If you stand for great service, low prices, superb quality, stylish design and environmental friendliness, you actually stand for nothing.

Josh Linkner

#15. Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.

Alan Dundes

#16. I just think things should work properly

James Dyson

#17. We should bring in an environmental attitude, and I think luxury should automatically be about sustainability and quality.

Jochen Zeitz

#18. American teens have the worst of all worlds ... Our children are bombarded and confronted with sexual messages, sexual exploitation, and all manner of sexual criticism. But our society is by and large sexually illiterate.

Faye Wattleton

#19. Environmental pollution is a blight on people's quality of life and a trouble that weighs on their hearts.

Li Keqiang

#20. When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.

Rachel Weisz

#21. The growth that we want is one that brings real benefits to the people, raises quality and efficiency of development, and contributes to energy conservation and environmental protection.

Li Keqiang

#22. It was a red-flannel chest-protector, one of those large quasi-hygienic objects that with pills and medicines take the place of beneficial relics and images among the Protestant peoples of Christendom.

H.G.Wells

#23. A curious world isn't it? We think we meet people by chance when chance has nothing to do with it.

Galen Beckett

#24. There's something very environmental about quality. We live in such a disposable society, but real style doesn't change that much.

Elizabeth Rogers

#25. Anybody who is born in Santa Rosa must turn out to be either an artist or a poet, for the spirit of the hills gets into your blood out there,

Robert Ripley

#26. Employees are given the chance to help shape their company by participating in a company-wide communications program making suggestions on waste reduction, environmental improvement, customer satisfaction, quality improvement, and safety issues.

Stephen Covey

#27. Where the quality of life goes down for the environment, the quality of life goes down for humans.

George Holland

#28. Death is a huge cliff and when you are about to be thrown off it, like an Aztec sacrifice, other problems on the valley floor look very small, but once on the ground with the rest of the world they become again of dominating proportions.

Elizabeth Ironside

#29. Your holy will is the life of my soul.

Maria Faustina Kowalska

#30. If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.

Ma Jun

#31. The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.

Jim Fowler

#32. We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems.

Janet Holmes A Court

#33. Businesses typically look at issues like price, quality, time of delivery. They don't often think about social and environmental impact because they're focused on their financial bottom line.

Jerry Greenfield

#34. I speak because I can to anyone I trust enough to listen.

Laura Marling

#35. Chinese brands will face many obstacles when marketing to Western consumers. Beyond the associations with poor quality and unsound environmental practices, they generally do not have the marketing capabilities or budgets to build powerful global brands.

Nirmalya Kumar

#36. Take air quality in the United States today: It's about 30 percent better than it was 25 years ago, even though there are now more people driving more cars.

Jared Diamond

#37. Almost fifteen months he's been gone, and every day I wake up, I still don't believe this is really happening.

Blake Crouch

#38. Ontario's gas tax rebates and infrastructure programs help create sustainable transit to improve quality of life for Ottawa residents with significant environmental benefits.

Bob Chiarelli