Quotes About Environmental Law

#1. When you think about it, words can break your heart, or they can change your day.

Anna Deavere Smith

#2. Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

Barry Commoner

#3. Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.

Frank Zappa

#4. I have nothing but admiration for the actors on soap operas. It is unbelievably challenging to put out an hour show in one day.

Catherine Mary Stewart

#5. In recent years, academics, policy-makers, and experts have raised the question of the applicability of peacetime environmental law in times of armed conflict.

Widad Akreyi

#6. Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.

Anna Lindh

#7. 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

#8. His love is like Drano, working to unclog all that prevents it from flowing freely in and through us!
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Evinda Lepins

#9. In putting everyone else down, I am raising myself up ... and this will continue until my self-esteem rises. I have just sorted out the mystery of why I am always putting down everybody else's artwork.

Jim Rowe

#10. It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself.

E. O. Wilson

#12. Environmental laws give power to the people. Republicans can huff, puff and scream about what they consider strict regulations, but when they cry out for reform, for a quicker process, they're really calling for a restriction of the rights of people to be involved in the planning process.

Daniel Kammen

#13. Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father.

Jim Jeffords

#14. I never went to drama school, I don't have any certificates saying: 'He's a qualified actor.' But I did think that 'House' was something I didn't have to apologise for. It was something I was really proud of and it was sort of ... whether you liked it or not, it was undeniable.

Hugh Laurie

#15. You are the man who made himself a devil, who wishes to be a god, all for love.

Tim W. Burke

#16. Stress is not a state of mind ... it's measurable and dangerous, and humans can't seem to find their off-switch.

Robert M. Sapolsky

#17. We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.

Ma Jun

#18. We have environmental laws for a reason: to protect endangered biodiversity. And as a country that has one of the highest loss of species anywhere in the world, they're important.

Richard Di Natale

#19. There is no better example of the overreach of government than in environmental law.

Chris Stewart

#20. House Republican leaders voted more than 300 times to undermine environmental safeguards since 2011, but almost none of these measures became law because Americans pushed back.

Frances Beinecke

#21. Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind,
because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.

Sigmund Freud

#22. True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.

Seneca The Younger

#23. Globalization is the next big artworld idea

Noel Carroll

#24. I'm a filmmaker, I'm a storyteller, an entertainer, if you will, so what can I do to participate? Well, I'm not a scientist; I'm not an expert on environmental law; I'm a guy that can tell stories. So I always look for a way to communicate ideas and help to spread excitement for change.

Adrian Grenier

#25. A girl meets a boy, Ed, and everything changes, or so she says.

Daniel Handler

#26. Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with other incident throes That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain In life's uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them.

William Shakespeare

#27. If it cannot be argued that a city has breached a federal or state environmental law, then surely it's committed some form of discrimination. If discrimination cannot be plausibly alleged, well, federal and state constitutions are full of words and promises that might have been violated.

Anonymous

#28. Motherhood doesn't have a nationality

Melinda Cross