Environmentally Quotes

#1. Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport.

Richard Rogers

#2. Changing eating habits in the North is an important link in the chain of events needed to create environmentally sustainable development that meets people's needs. The Beyond Beef campaign is an important step in that direction.

Walden Bello

#3. We don't know yet how to build a society which is environmentally sustainable, which is shareable with everybody on the planet, which promotes stability and democracy and human rights, and which is achievable in the time-frame necessary to make it through the challenges we face.

Alex Steffen

#4. In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.

Olympia Snowe

#5. A coalition with Tories and Liberal Democrats together is a golden opportunity to create the sort of planning reform that means not only can we have more environmentally sensitive planning, but we can have more homes and more schools.

Michael Gove

#6. Greenpeace protesters who lived on the trees right above the planned radar location (Google Maps) and who eat environmentally friendly roots, insect, excrements, and dirt.

Lubos Motl

#7. Whilst acting is my career, architecture is my passion. Selecting this development as my first major construction project has been a simple decision. It will underpin not only my values for environmentally friendly architecture, but also embrace my career in entertainment

Brad Pitt

#8. I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead
that's environmentally sound.

James Crumley

#9. If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

Danny Glover

#10. Marketers ... Can't simply put a more environmentally friendly package on the shelves and assume that shoppers will recognize and appreciate the change. If the goal is to drive preference or justify a price premium, the environmental benefit needs to be conveyed.

Scott Young

#11. One of Alaska's strengths is our pioneer role in environmentally sensitive development.

Frank Murkowski

#12. I drive a hybrid. Tipper and I got a Lexus hybrid. And we have a couple of Priuses in the family with our children. And I encourage people to make environmentally conscious choices because we all have to solve this climate crisis.

Al Gore

#13. We all have the same Rislampa/Har paper lamps made from wire and environmentally friendly unbleached paper. Mine are confetti.

Chuck Palahniuk

#14. America has much to gain in terms of jobs and trade by meeting the growing world demand for advanced, environmentally sound technologies.

John McCain

#15. All I'm saying is that there is a price to be paid at the sharp end.. environmentally and everywhere else.. for the food that is produced in a particular way.

Prince Charles

#16. We need to develop the new green industrial revolution that develops the new technologies that can confront and overcome the challenge of climate change; and that above all can show us not that we can avoid changing our behaviour but we can change it in a way that is environmentally sustainable

Tony Blair

#17. Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To the contrary, there is good evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful.

Frederick Seitz

#18. If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.

Nigel Short

#19. If, during the Second World War, the United States had retooled its factories for manufacturing bicycles instead of munitions, we'd be one of the healthiest, least oil-dependent, and most environmentally-sound constituents in the Nazi empire today.

Ralph Nader

#20. Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option ... they will become a necessity.

Fujio Cho

#21. I always believe in buying things locally; anything locally made is a big plus, along with organic materials. I try really hard to do that, and brands really pop out to me if I know they're trying to be environmentally friendly.

Jessica Hart

#22. I think the environmental movement has failed in that it's used the stick too much; it's used the apocalyptic tone too much; it hasn't sold the positive aspects of being environmentally concerned and trying to pull us out.

Edward Burtynsky

#23. I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally.

Patti Davis

#24. Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.

Ma Jun

#25. In addition to hydropower, Oregon and the Northwest have pioneering companies leading the way in environmentally friendly energy technology.

Greg Walden

#26. I think there are other issues that the Democrats could use to rally evangelicals. There are a lot of us, for instance, who believe that the Bible calls us to be environmentally responsible.

Tony Campolo

#27. For over 15 years, through the clean coal programs of the Department of Energy, the Federal Government has been a solid partner, working jointly with private companies and the states to develop and demonstrate a new generation of environmentally clean technology using coal.

Tim Holden

#28. So just to be truthful to my own sensibility, I need to acknowledge that the season is not all joy and light for a lot of people. It's tough - environmentally, emotionally, spiritually.

Sting

#29. New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods.

Nina Fedoroff

#30. The United States has collapsed economically, socially, politically, legally, constitutionally, and environmentally.

Paul Craig Roberts

#31. Corporate globalists and the corporate empires they serve may be at the cutting edge of technological innovation, but socially and environmentally they are relics of a bygone era of imperial colonial rule, elite privilege, and state-sanctioned plunder.

David Korten

#32. We want the world's largest economies, including the United States, to be part of a global arrangement. An approach in which only some are committed to acting cannot be environmentally effective.

Paula Dobriansky

#33. Let us hope manufacturers can come up with a diaper that is environmentally sound. To go back to cloth would send us back to the day when breathing and raising a baby at the same time were incompatible.

Erma Bombeck

#34. I think we would all like to believe that every new event demands a new word. But we're environmentally conscious with our words. We recycle words we've got.

Erin McKean

#35. I was shaped by the west and have lived most of my life in it, and nothing would gratify me more than to see it in all its subregions and subcultures both prosperous and environmentally healthy, with a civilization to match its scenery.

Wallace Stegner

#36. I went through a lot of my life not being mindful of how I was living it. I wasn't mindful environmentally, or whether I was on track.

Roz Savage

#37. The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.

Barbra Streisand

#38. So many people there are so concerned about being socially conscious and environmentally aware, but they don't give a second thought to how they treat the guy washing their car or cutting their grass.

Patrick Lencioni

#39. Most of the common infections - colds, flu, diarrhea - you get environmentally transmitted either in the air or on surfaces you touch. I think people under-rate surfaces.

Charles P. Gerba

#40. In my almost ten years in the House of Representatives, I have voted consistently to allow companies to drill for oil and natural gas in environmentally friendly ways.

Virgil Goode

#41. Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.

Al Gore

#42. Historically the Department of Education hasn't been doing enough to drive the sustainability movement, and today, I promise that we will be a committed partner in the national effort to build a more environmentally literate and responsible society.

Arne Duncan

#43. We obviously want to produce things that people want. We are going to continue to do that in an environmentally responsible way, while still being aware of the physical, scientific, and practical issues that we have to deal with.

Lee R. Raymond

#44. The efficient use of energy is as much an issue for Saudi Arabia, with its huge natural resources, as it is for all countries. Increased efficiency makes sense environmentally, but also economically.

Ali Al-Naimi

#45. Adam switches from a gas-guzzler of 12 mpg to a slightly less voracious guzzler that runs at 14 mpg. The environmentally virtuous Beth switches from a 30 mpg car to one that runs at 40 mpg.

Daniel Kahneman

#46. Cutting edge technologies have allowed us to utilize coal's diverse potentials. Not only are we using coal in cleaner and more environmentally sound methods, but importantly, we can turn coal into gasoline and diesel.

Peter Roskam

#47. My motivation for starting Fisker was simple: I thought there must be a market for beautiful, exciting, fast, environmentally friendly cars. The car is probably the only product you can still fall in love with and have a relationship with.

Henrik Fisker

#48. Not only will the development of coal-to-liquid and environmentally friendly sequestration technologies increase our energy security, but these advancements will also help create better, higher-paying American jobs.

Peter Roskam

#49. If you want to go beyond that small percentage of people who are already environmentally and scientifically aware, you have to make your work somehow link with a passion, interest, or profession of someone who isn't interested in science or nature.

Nalini Nadkarni

#50. Without question, bicycling is an efficient, economical and environmentally sound form of transportation and recreation. Bicycling is a great activity for families, recreational riders and commuters. Hillary, Chelsea and I have bicycles ...

William J. Clinton

#51. We have an exceptional natural wealth that is environmentally friendly.

Raymond Bachand

#52. We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long.

Peter Dinklage

#53. Whether fuel cell system development in central Oregon, wind power generation along the Columbia Gorge, or geothermal energy in southern Oregon, investing in new energy sources makes America more energy independent while creating good paying, environmentally friendly jobs.

Greg Walden

#54. The US needs a cap and trade system with auctioning of licenses for emissions rights. The revenues from these auctions can be used to launch a new, environmentally friendly energy policy. That would be yet another federal program that could help us to overcome the stagnation.

George Soros

#55. As the world becomes more environmentally aware, I believe that we must as individuals recognize the magnificence of our natural world, and feel a sense of accountability for our actions which affect it.

Bob Irwin

#56. I'm interested in humor, and greeting cards just happen to be a perfect medium for my message. They're accessible to everyone, and thanks to all the advances that have been made by environmentally conscientious printers, I can get my message across while keeping my carbon footprint relatively small.

Anne Taintor

#57. If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly.

David Suzuki

#58. I think we can say our energy system will be the most efficient and environmentally friendly in the world.

Angela Merkel

#59. Living an environmentally responsible lifestyle can seem like a Scrooge-like list of don'ts. Don't take that flight, don't buy that car, don't eat those blueberries flown in from somewhere far-flung.

Kevin McCloud

#60. I brag on the Democratic Party. We're libertarian on social issues, it's live and let live. Fiscally, we're conservative and responsible, and were environmentally conscious.

Mark Udall

#61. Buy less, choose well: that's the maxim. Quality not quantity. That's the most environmentally friendly thing you can do.

Vivienne Westwood

#62. Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities.

Maurice Strong

#63. Simply put, drilling in ANWR would be expensive, environmentally devastating, and would do very little to fix our energy crisis or to bring down the price of oil and gasoline.

Allyson Schwartz

#64. I think we are very environmental people. We need to be supported environmentally. Books very much have that imprint on the mind.

Sakyong Mipham

#65. Eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a manatee.

Daniel Pauly

#66. In Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, the government in a matter of years has put a lot of energy behind recycling food waste as livestock feed. It's environmentally friendly, it provides cheap livestock feed for the farmers in those parts of the world, and it avoids sending the food waste to landfill.

Tristram Stuart

#67. My basic political posture is "what a shame the human race did this to earth." What we have done environmentally, politically, culturally.

Max Weinberg

#68. Cost-effective, attractive to business partners, environmentally friendly, easy access to a wide range of guidance and support - it makes good business sense to implement and maintain a robust and effective environmental management system

Elliot Morley

#69. Value change can change our pathetic capitulation to consumerism, which will help us psychologically as well as environmentally.

James Gustave Speth

#70. The most ethical diet just so happens to be the most environmentally sound diet and just so happens to be the healthiest.

Michael Greger

#71. People are becoming more environmentally aware and caring more for animals and really wanting to improve their health.

Heather Mills

#72. I'm definitely musician and storyteller. But I always like to take an active role in things I care about socially and environmentally.

Ben Sollee

#73. I'm a vegetarian who also eats some environmentally friendly seafood. But most importantly, I eat organic and locally grown foods whenever possible. It is both for health reasons and for preserving the environment.

Suzanne Whang

#74. The life expectancy in Hong Kong is among the highest in the world ... you can come to only one conclusion: we have the most environmentally friendly place for people, for executives, for Hong Kong people to live

Donald Tsang

#75. Okay, little car, you are protesting roads. They are death traps for animals. They are environmentally unsound impervious surfaces that cause runoff. I understand this. But could we protest in the summer?

Carrie Jones

#76. Genetically, I'm pure Greek. Psychologically, environmentally, culturally, by choice, I'm a member of the black community.

Johnny Otis

#77. We are programmed; we are literally programmed genetically and then we are programmed environmentally and most people never break out of that programming.

Bob Proctor

#78. That area environmentally is a waste. You can't do anything. I don't care if the Sierra Club goes out there. It is fully polluted! You're not only going to work to clean up the environment, but also you will put people to work.

Richard M. Daley

#79. I have a three-year-old daughter, which makes me more environmentally conscious. For me, it's about the future.

Rufus Wainwright

#80. It's all about fair trade, and helping people eating locally grown stuff. We're recycling everything. We're trying to tour in the most conscious way possible, environmentally and socially.

Andrew Dost

#81. It's unacceptable to tour using non-environmentally friendly fuel when there are alternatives.

KT Tunstall

#82. I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.

Ed Begley Jr.

#83. My next goal is for Shenzhen to become the model of environmentally-friendly and sustainable development.

Wang Shi

#84. The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.

Tim Bishop

#85. Barge traffic on the Mississippi River represents the most efficient, most cost-effective, most environmentally sound means of transporting commodity goods from this region of the country to market.

Leonard Boswell

#86. The Simi is environmentally sound. Eat everything except for hooves

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#87. I updrive a Bronco."
"How environmentally irresponsible of you.

C.E. Murphy

#88. I've grown environmentally. I'm far more cautious, although I always have been; but more now. And I have grown a lot professionally by working with George Miller.

Brittany Murphy

#89. In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?

Stephen Hawking

#90. Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.

Michael Burgess

#91. Environmentally, the planet will not sustain the kind of abuse it receives at our hands.

Marianne Williamson

#92. To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.

David Byrne

#93. Many organic practices simply make sense, regardless of what overall agricultural system is used. Far from being a quaint throwback to an earlier time, organic agriculture is proving to be a serious contender in modern farming and a more environmentally sustainable system over the long term.

David Suzuki

#94. I'm not sure I'd like to be burned. I think I might like to be fed to zoo animals. It would be both environmentally friendly and a lovely treat for the larger carnivores. Could you request that?

Gail Honeyman

#95. There is no doubt that environmentally related diseases will continue to pose problems in the future.

Samuel Wilson