Quotes About Eco

#1. I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some point, I would love for them to give Umberto Eco or A.S. Byatt a try. I hope 'A Discovery of Witches' will serve as a kind of stepping-stone.

Deborah Harkness

#2. The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco- populism . Ecopopulism ... To change our laws and culture , the green movement justice , political solutions and social change.

Van Jones

#3. Getting enough energy to satisfy the needs of the developing world without bringing on an eco-disaster is not going to be easy. It will require a marriage of science and technology with good international policy, something that is always hard to bring off. We need to get it right this time.

Burton Richter

#4. Fifty-one hybrids and ten MINI coopers. We're the most eco-friendly assault force in history.

Victor Gischler

#5. With an eco-mind, we get ready for surprises, for we realize it's just not possible to know what's possible.

Frances Moore Lappe

#6. There are a lot of irritating aspects about large supermarkets for the wannabe eco-warrior, but the one that gets most of us hottest under the collar is packaging.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

#7. In Austin, the eco-capital of Texas, residents tend to favor native plants and wildflowers to the sculpted lawns of the Palm Springs variety.

Douglas Brinkley

#8. Just off one of the most congested traffic corridors in Los Angeles, tiled with a mosaic of fast-food chains, nail salons, and dollar stores, lies a little green oasis: the Los Angeles Eco-Village (LAEV).

Juliana Birnbaum Fox

#9. I believe that in the future meditation could be as commonplace in schools and society as eco-awareness is now. It interests me that an ancient cure may be the solution to a modern problem.

Paul McCartney

#10. It doesn't take long to realize you've made the wrong decision. You bump along with your eco-fueled ego in your eco-fueled vehicle and reuse every piece of plastic and glass you encounter, but it isn't enough.

A.J. Lauer

#11. Our society must move from ego-system to eco-system economics. This requires that we shift from ego-system silos to eco-system awareness that considers others and includes the whole.

Otto Scharmer

#12. I like my women very green; you know, eco-friendly.

John Boyega

#13. We have to change from 'ego-architecture' to 'eco-architecture.'

Jaime Lerner

#14. Consuming less is the fastest way to eco-fashion redemption - particularly if your preference is for leather, not hemp.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

#15. Jess is not only a successful actress but also has a line of eco-friendly products called Honest that's become a million-dollar business. Jessica Alba an undercover businesswoman? That's my favorite kind of style - the kind with substance.

Derek Blasberg

#16. Our expertise is solar energy and we don't want to focus on other forms and we never push for solar form everywhere like say in upper hill areas where eco-hydro or biogas is more viable.

Ramon Magsaysay

#17. Doing the eco-accessory thing doesn't have to mean giving up designer labels. In fact, quite the opposite.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

#18. President Obama is in no danger of being judged by history as an eco-radical.

Jeff Goodell

#19. Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves

William Cohen

#20. I believe in carbon offset initiatives, in eco-villages, in the sustainable regeneration of the tropical rainforest.

Dasha Zhukova

#21. Blue - Honest, calm. Black- Authoritative, professional. White- Pure, clean. Red- Exciting, passionate. Green-Natural, eco-friendly.

L.H. Phoon

#22. A fish is more valuable swimming in the sea maintaining the integrity of oceanic eco-systems than it is on anyone's plate.

Paul Watson

#23. Reclaim your role as eco-role models and exemplars in your community. Change is happening rapidly. Let libraries continue to be at the center of it.

Wanda Urbanska

#24. Umberto Eco has called his poem 'the apotheosis of the virtual world'.

Jonathan Black

#25. My New Year's style resolution is to buy and wear more clothing that is handmade by artisans or eco-friendly.

Lauren Bush

#26. The novelist Umberto Eco famously kept what the writer Nassim Taleb called an "anti-library," a vast collection of books he had not read, believing that one's personal trove should contain as much of what you don't know as possible. Some

Pamela Paul

#27. Not using fossil fuels is tantamount to not using energy. It is economic suicide and eco-manslaughter.

Paul Driessen

#28. It's a paradox to be an actress, living in the city, taking planes all the time, trying to find the right balance in this life, which is not so eco-friendly, and still try to respect the environment.

Marion Cotillard

#29. So that's why Ivy always used canvas bags . It wasn't because she was especially eco-minded. They were quiet.

Kim Harrison

#30. We have eco-friendly shrimp. We can make them; we have that technology. But we can never have an eco-friendly all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet. It doesn't work.

Barton Seaver

#31. I collect a lot of eco-friendly shopping bags that serve to separate my shoes other and other small stuff in my luggage.

Liu Wen

#32. 'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing.

Jason Reitman

#33. God help anyone who disobeys my recycling system. I have all the separated bins. I'm very adamant about it because I try to be a good citizen of the world, I really do. I even use eco-friendly cleaning products, but sometimes you just have to break open the disinfectant. Some jobs require it.

Linda Evangelista

#34. There is no unemployment in eco-systems

Gunter Pauli

#35. I've always liked adventure television. Pre-'Survivor,' I did a series on cable called 'Eco-Challenge,' an adventure race with experts mainly, and here we have 'Expedition Impossible.' I like the outdoors and I like doing something fresh for television you haven't seen before.

Mark Burnett

#36. Free shackled rivers! ... The finest fantasy of eco-warriors in the West is the destruction of [Glen Canyon] Dam and the liberation of the Colorado [River].

David Foreman

#37. Teaching children how to be eco-friendly at preschool age is just so obvious and so fantastic. It creates habits that they get into for a lifetime and then they put pressure on their parents.

Tana Ramsay

#38. [My guilty pleasure is a] deep, eco-unfriendly, hot bath. Preferably with a glass of champagne and someone sitting on the loo seat gossiping.

Prue Leith

#39. Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#40. I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant.

Frances Moore Lappe

#41. I am a very eco-friendly chef but a guilty air traveller.

Alain Ducasse

#42. I've taken Eco drink everyday for a year and I can tell you that it works!!!! I definitely can tell when I miss a day ...

Robert Johnson

#43. I love jeans and T-shirts, but for red carpets, I like Oscar de la Renta, who is timeless. Marchesa celebrates the female form in an ethereal way. Donna Karan does an Urban Zen collection, which is eco-friendly. I love socially conscious fashion.

Serinda Swan

#44. Your immune systems are comprised of all parts of the eco-system you know as yourself, and include not only every part of you, from your conscious and subconscious thoughts to your physical body systems, but also how you live and function in relationship with the larger ecosystems that surround you.

Robin Rose Bennett

#45. Our life on earth cannot sustain without healthy oceans - and because of that, the beings who inhabit and allow that eco system to work need our help. Let's start with our wonderment, and go from there. Allow that, and it becomes easy.

Maggie Q

#46. The advent of the Internet exposed the fact that the old business model for newspapers was broken. The world wide web fundamentally changed the media eco-system, challenging established journalistic practice in what is known as the mainstream media: radio, television, newspapers and magazines.

Lionel Barber

#47. Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing?

Van Jones

#48. No-tech tourism is a form of temporal eco-tourism in which one reads books or watches film and TV precisely because of the absence of 21st-century technologies.

Douglas Coupland

#49. I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.

Ed Begley Jr.

#50. We have wished, we eco-freaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion-guilt-free at last!

Stewart Brand

#51. I have always loved marine biology and that is what I studied in school. I am hoping to build a marine sanctuary that will also be educational, an eco preserve and a school, perhaps in Costa Rica, that is one of my dreams and goals.

Paul Walker

#52. The surest way to heal an eco-system is to connect it to more of itself.

William McDonough

#53. The collective human unconscious can't stand it, the thought of stuff going on forever, so has decided (collectively, unconsciously) to bring the planet to an end. Eco-apocalypse isn't accident, it's deep species strategy.

Glen Duncan

#54. The fight is no longer between the classes or between rich and poor but between the idiots and the eco-conscious.

Vivienne Westwood

#55. Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.

Antonio Tabucchi

#56. I know quite a few eco designers who build dresses out of old couture gowns. They disassemble, 'upcycle,' and reuse them in extraordinary ways. To me, that's a sustainable way of doing things.

Suzy Amis

#57. I want to try and wear as many Australian designers as I can because I'd like to support my Australian colleagues in the industry as well as find things that are eco-friendly. I love the green concept of wearing more sustainable garments at events.

Lucy Fry

#58. Most of the designers are eco-friendly, even by default, through their use of up-cycled materials and organic fabrics, and by producing in small quantities. Ultimately, the design has to be great - no one will buy it if it looks like a hemp sack!

Amber Valletta

#59. That's really eco-friendly of you," Vee told Marcie. "Recycling Nora's old trash.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#60. My daughter's just going to be really hip! My goal is to be as eco-conscious as possible: There's so much out there for parents who want to do that. I plan to keep her eco-friendly as she gets older. I think we all sort of have to do it.

Ana Ortiz

#61. Your little eco-friendly fairy tale ain't going to happen. This was farming land long before it was cute-house land.

Christopher Bollen

#62. The famous statue of Christ the Redeemer that overlooks Rio de Janeiro is only 130 feet tall. McGuinty's eco-idols [Wind Turbines] will be three times that height, but will serve the same imposing purpose.

Ezra Levant

#63. A family-friendly "eco-populism" can mobilize and unite millions who, at this point, would be turned off by a more extreme set of demands. The momentum will build, through these early efforts, for more comprehensive solutions.

Van Jones

#64. Architects have to become designers of eco-systems. Not just designers of beautiful facades or beautiful sculptures, but systems of economy and ecology, where we channel the flow not only of people, but also the flow of resources through our cities and buildings.

Bjarke Ingels

#65. The eco-movement is growing as people all over catch on to the need to protect our precious planet, which makes the future look really bright - and makes me really happy.

Josie Maran

#66. Nothing short of the end of the world would get our eco-conscious techies to toss their latest gadgets onto the street.

Susan Ee

#67. Depending on the season, between 20 and 30 percent of my collections contain some sort of eco or sustainable element, whether it's a beautiful organic fabric or a natural dye. And obviously I don't use animal skins or fur of any kind.

Stella McCartney

#68. The common liberal orthodoxy that living close to the land leads to eco-awareness is historically naive, considering that Mesopotamia, northern Africa, and the Mayan civilization were ruined by people who had lived there quite a long while.

Gregory Benford

#69. Any successful long-term strategy will require that the green wave fully and passionately embrace the principles of eco-equity.

Van Jones

#70. Some eco groups suggest that as many as 73 million sharks are killed globally every year. Hammerheads, blue sharks, mako sharks - they're disappearing, and they ain't coming back.

Stephen Rodrick

#71. Our dependence on the pollutants of this Earth have always, and will continue to have, far-reaching consequences to our eco-systems, bio systems, geosystems and our race's natural evolution.

Yehuda Berg

#72. Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.

Kaki King

#73. Our concept of eco-effectiveness means working on the right things - on the right products and services and systems - instead of making the wrong things less bad. Once you are doing the right things, then doing them "right," with the help of efficiency among other tools, makes perfect sense.

William McDonough

#74. The eco-effective future of industry is a world of abundance that celebrates the use and consumption of products and materials that are, in effect, nutritious - as safe, effective, and delightful as a cherry tree.

William McDonough

#75. Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops, and mobile markets get fresh, organic produce to the people who can't afford to shop at health-food stores.

Van Jones

#76. I am always trying to find fabrics that are more friendly to the environment - working with Virgin Atlantic, they managed to research into this and find more eco fabrics.

Vivienne Westwood

#77. Agriculture is the process of turning eco-systems into people.

Toby Hemenway

#78. Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.

Umberto Eco

#79. But what use is the unicorn to you if your intellect doesn't believe in it?

Umberto Eco

#80. Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.

Umberto Eco

#81. The fine thing about pacts with the devil is that when you sign them you are well aware of their conditions. Otherwise, why would you be recompensed with hell?

Umberto Eco

#82. The outcast lepers would like to drag everything down in their ruin. And they become all the more evil, the more you cast them out; and the more you depict them as a court of lemurs who want your ruin, the more they will be outcast.

Umberto Eco

#83. The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

Umberto Eco

#84. A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.

Umberto Eco

#85. And that will be full knowledge, the learning of the singular.

Umberto Eco

#86. He thought he would become accustomed to the idea, not yet understanding that it is useless to become accustomed to the loss of a father, for it will never happen a second time: might as well leave the wound open.

Umberto Eco

#87. I enjoyed your article, but I preferred my own.

Umberto Eco

#88. The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have lightly stepped inside, slams it shut behind us.

Umberto Eco

#89. I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent some new, urgent activity so I don't fall into the trap of starting a new novel.

Umberto Eco

#90. when the soul is transported, the only virtue lies in loving what you see (is that not true?), the supreme happiness in having what you have;

Umberto Eco

#91. Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.

Umberto Eco

#92. Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.

Umberto Eco

#93. There can be no failure if there really is a Plan. Defeated you may be, but never through any fault of your own. To bow to a cosmic will is no shame. You are not a coward; you are a martyr.

Umberto Eco

#94. Eight, the number of perfection for every tetragon; four, the number of the Gospels; five, the number of the zones of the world; seven, the number of the gifts of the Holy Ghost.

Umberto Eco

#95. He is always on the brink of suicide ... because he seeks salvation through the routine formulas suggested to him by the society in which he lives.

Umberto Eco

#96. Deciding what is being talked about is a kind of interpretive bet.

Umberto Eco

#97. Luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.

Umberto Eco

#98. Everything is repeated, in a circle. History is a master because it teaches us that it doesn't exist. It's the permutations that matter.

Umberto Eco

#99. Boethius says, nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn;

Umberto Eco

#100. The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.

Umberto Eco