235 private quotes tagged environmental

“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

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“The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.” — Dixie Lee Ray

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“Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.” — Dixie Lee Ray

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“If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.” — William Bartram

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“Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?” — Gale Norton

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“Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years.” — Marsha Blackburn

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“We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.” — Dennis Weaver

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“After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.” — Maurice Strong

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“Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.” — John Ray

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“Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.” — James Inhofe

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“Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.” — Frank Murkowski

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“Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.” — Barry Commoner

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“The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.” — Barry Commoner

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“A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.” — E. O. Wilson

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“The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.” — Jacques Yves Cousteau

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“Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.” — Aldo Leopold

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“Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.” — Will Durant

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“Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.” — Jon Meacham

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“More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance.” — Simon Mainwaring

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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead

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“Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.” — Garrett Hardin

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“Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.” — Joan Jett

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“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

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“In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.” — David Suzuki

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“A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.” — Beverly Sills

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