Top 34 Quotes About Environmental Science
#1. Environmental science is telling us a lot about our future and what it could look like, whether we're talking about global warming (the current poster child for the environment) or a loss of genetic diversity in our food supplies, or the effects of low-dose chemicals on human development.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#2. My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
Barry Commoner
#3. He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.
Henry David Thoreau
#4. Meryl Streep is expert at only using the requisite amount of energy to express her character, not an ounce too little or too much. She's Zen and doesn't know she's Zen. That's very Zen!
Frederick Lenz
#5. With medical science improving at roughly the same rate as our environmental situation worsens, the most likely scenario is that the world will become uninhabitable at the precise moment the human race becomes immortal.
Steve Toltz
#6. Fracking is doable if there's full disclosure of all chemicals used. Secondly, science dictates the policy rather than politics. Third, there's collaboration between environmental groups and the natural gas industry.
Bill Richardson
#7. Humans cannot create what Nature can create and Nature cannot create what Humans can create.
Joey Lawsin
#8. We study the past history, with the conscience of the present environmental changes; we can only predict the future ecological changes, by emergence of the past into the present.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#9. I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
Victor Hugo
#10. In an ideal world, entertainment would be regarded as what it is - entertainment - and wouldn't be valued more heavily than education, than science, than environmental awareness.
Chris Kluwe
#11. When I am bored with myself, I try to find someone to listen to me.
Mason Cooley
#12. In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive in the world economy. Ultimately, I would love to see a flat tax.
Eric Cantor
#13. The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.
P. J. O'Rourke
#14. What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
Paul Cezanne
#15. Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.
Jacque Fresco
#16. One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.
Samuel Wilson
#18. A review of the science suggests that uncertainty is so high as to raise a good prospect that mandatory green house gas reductions will produce little or no environmental benefit.
Kenneth P. Green
#19. No matter if the science is all phoney, there are collateral environmental benefits ... climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.
Christine Stewart
#20. The Gita has sung the praises of Knowledge, but it is beyond the mere intellect; it is essentially addressed to the heart and capable of being understood by the heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
#21. In the middle of my fourth year teaching is when I got my book contract - in 2010. I knew the book would come out in May 2011.
John Corey Whaley
#22. We have always wanted to write songs and be experimental in that way.
Mike Lowry
#23. Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.
Oscar Wilde
#24. Consciousness is simply the brain's neural response to its surrounding environmental stimuli. Hence when the neural circuits malfunction, Consciousness tends to malfunction as well.
Abhijit Naskar
#25. Before I was nine years old, I had been a socialist. When young, everyone is a socialist; later he becomes cleverer.
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
#26. Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.
Vivienne Westwood
#27. They're a lot of great scientists and their mission is to protect people. It's the Environmental Protection Agency, but it's really a people protection agency. And they're out there trying to do their job and do the science.
Josh Fox
#28. I know, basketball is a dance. I didn't understand the significance of that type of training at first. I was supposed to read poems ...
Dirk Nowitzki
#29. We need to be rid of the insane policy of environmentalism. No more 'green', anti-growth, anti-science environmental policy.
Kesha Rogers
#31. And so class will some day supplant race in world affairs. Race war will then be merely a side-show to the gigantic class war which will be waged in the big tent we call the world.
Ralph Bunche
#32. Disease may be defined as 'A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment.
William Thomas Councilman
#33. O Lord, who art our guide even unto death, grant us, I pray Thee, grace to follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest. In little daily duties to which Thou callest us, bow down our wills to simple obedience.
Christina Rossetti
#34. Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.
James Inhofe
